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DR.JOHNR.  HAYNES    WILLIAM  L.  HONNOLD 

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THE   CABELLS  AN^D 
THEIE  KIN 

a  Memorial  Volvimt 

OF 

HISTORY,  BIOGRAPHY,  AND   GENEALOGY 


BY 


ALEXANDER   BROWN,  D.  C.  L. 

Author  of  "  Thk  Genesis  of  the  United  States  " 


BOSTON  AND   NEAV  YORK 

HOUGHTON,  MIFFLIN  AND   COMPANY 

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Copyright,  1895, 
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The  Riverside  Press,  Cambridfje,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A. 
Electrotyped  and  Piinted  by  H.  O.  Houghton  and  Company. 


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PEEFACE. 

"  Honor  thy  father  and  thy  mother,  that  thy  days  may  be  long  in  the  land  which 
the  Lord  thy  God  giveth  thee." 

The  interest  of  people  in  their  kindred  is  one  of  the  meas- 
ures of  the  distances  between  the  races  of  men.  The  cul- 
tivation of  family  history  is  one  of  the  essentials  to  the  wel- 
fare of  society.  The  continued  existence  and  prosperity  of 
every  nation  depends  upon  the  love  of  country  and  pride  of 
race,  which  is  true  patriotism. 

We  are  commanded  to  honor  our  forefathers,  that  our 
days  may  be  long.  Our  religion,  civilization,  and  patriotism, 
alike  require  us  to  rescue  their  memory  from  oblivion,  so 
that  they  may  not  perish  forever  as  though  they  had  never 
been  born.  And  it  is  our  sacred  duty  to  "  gather  up  the 
fragments  that  remain  "  before  their  past  history  has  been 
obliterated  by  the  effacing  fingers  of  destruction  and  decay. 

I  will  give  something  of  "  the  Cabells  and  their  kin  "  in 
England  as  an  introduction  ;  but  my  especial  object  will  be 
to  give  an  outline  history  of  an  American  family  in  its  vari- 
ous branches,  showing  the  contribution  of  the  various  mem- 
bers to  the  history  and  advancement  of  their  section  and 
of  their  country.  And  as  Americans  are  a  mixed  race,  I 
shall  sometimes  trace  back  to  emigrant  ancestors,  and  will 
give  the  "  Seize  Quartiers  "  sufficiently  often  to  convey  a 
fairly  approximate  idea  of  the  actual  percentage  of  English, 
Scotch,  Huguenot,  and  other  blood  flowing  in  the  veins  of 
the  kindred,  especially  of  this  section,  which  sent  out  so 
many  emigrants  to  other  sections  of  our  country. 


iv  ,  PREFACE 

Much  has  been  written  of  the  first  settlements  of  the 
tide-water  regions  which  lay  within  the  reach  of  shipping, 
while  comparatively  little  has  been  published  about  the  cut- 
ting loose  from  the  moorings,  and  the  first  advancement  of 
the  settlements  "  within  the  land  "  to  the  westward.  For 
the  first  three  generations,  this  work  will  be  largely  devoted 
to  an  outhne  of  this  movement  up  the  James  River  valley, 
and  to  the  earliest  settlements  within  the  north  and  south 
branches  of  James  River. 

When  young  Dr.  William  Cabell  emigrated  with  his 
fortunes  from  the  land  of  his  forefathers  to  become  the 
founder  of  a  new  family  in  the  New  World,  he  cast  his 
lot  for  his  new  beginning  in  the  frontier  forests  of  Vir- 
ginia along  the  upper  valley  of  the  James.  And  it  came 
to  pass  that  the  new  family  and  the  new  country  grew  up 
together,  —  the  founder  of  the  one  was  to  some  extent  the 
founder  of  the  other,  —  and  the  interests  of  both  were  in 
many  ways,  for  many  years,  the  same. 

The  earlier  members  of  this  new  family  were  men  of 
affairs  rather  than  of  letters,  —  the  times  and  the  task 
before  them  required  them  to  be  so.  They  were  not  only 
among  the  most  active  founders  of  this  region,  but  also 
among  the  most  active  builders-up  of  this  region.  They 
not  only  made  the  hunting-ground  of  the  savage  —  a  wil- 
derness of  wild  woods  —  to  feel  the  yoke  of  the  plow  and  to 
blossom  as  the  rose,  but,  from  the  time  when  this  section 
was  first  represented  in  the  colonial  government  to  the 
beginning  of  the  Revolutionary  period,  Cabells  were  in  the 
House  of  Burgesses,  looking  to  its  interest  in  the  public 
councils.  During  "  the  time  that  tried  men's  souls,"  Ca- 
bells and  their  kin  were  in  the  conventions  guarding  the 
rig^hts  of  their  home  land.  And  from  the  war  between 
the  mother  country  and  the  Colonies  to  the  war  between 


PREFACE  V 

the  States,  the  Cabells  and  their  kin  were  constantly  rep- 
resenting this  region  in  the  House  of  Delegates,  the  State 
Senate,  or  the  House  of  Representatives  of  the  United 
States. 

But  the  Cabells  and  their  kin  were  not  among  the 
founders  of  this  section  only,  and  their  services  have  not 
been  confined  to  this  region  alone.  Many  of  them  are 
found  among  the  leading  founders  of  the  West  and  other 
portions  of  the  Union.  They  have  had  their  full  share  in 
the  public  and  domestic  affairs  of  nearly  every  portion  of 
their  country,  and  in  shaping  its  destiny  both  under  the 
crown  and  under  the  RepubHc. 

I  have  made  a  special  effort  to  give  to  the  part  of  the 
work  which  relates  to  those  born  prior  to  1825  ("  three- 
score years  and  ten  "  ago),  and  to  many  of  those  born  since, 
who  have  gone  before  us,  something  of  a  memorial  charac- 
ter, going  somewhat  into  details.  But  of  "  the  hving  gen- 
erations "  it  is  mainly  in  the  nature  of  a  record.  And  I 
have  made  no  effort  "  to  trace  back "  those  intermarried 
with  after  1825,  because  the  increasing  number  of  these 
people,  and  the  increasing  length  of  these  lines,  would  fill 
volumes.  So  it  was  necessary  to  leave  much  of  the  family 
history  of  the  present  generations  for  the  future  historians 
of  the  family. 

I  have  been  more  disposed  to  make  use  of  matter  still  in 
manuscript  than  to  give  matter  already  preserved  by  the 
art  preservative  of  arts. 

The  material  I  have  had  to  work  with  is  necessarily  un- 
equal. Some  pubHc  (church  and  state)  records  have  been 
preserved,  others  have  not.  The  records  of  some  counties 
have  been  destroyed.  Some  families  have  preserved  their 
family  memorials  fairly  well,  others  have  not  preserved 
them  at  all.     Some  individuals  have  led  active  lives,  others 


vi  PREFACE 

have  lived  quietly.  Some  have  devoted  themselves  to  pub- 
lic, others  to  domestic  affairs.  And  thus,  while  each  one 
may  have  done  his  duty  equally  well  in  the  hfe  task  assigned 
to  each,  —  whether  it  was  the  opening  up  of  a  new  country 
to  civilization,  the  founding  of  a  new  repubUc,  the  estab- 
hshment  of  a  new  State,  or  the  clearing  of  a  new  ground 
for  the  plow,  —  our  knowledge  of  them  and  of  their  acts 
must  be  very  unequal.  It  has  been  said  that  "the  man 
who  makes  two  blades  of  grass  to  grow  upon  a  spot  of 
ground  where  only  one  grew  before,  deserves  better  of  man- 
kind than  the  whole  race  of  politicians  put  together."  Yet 
no  class  is  more  apt  to  be  forgotten  than  the  farmer,  who 
seldom  leaves  any  material  for  the  biographer. 

Of  some  of  the  past  generations  I  have  sufficient  material 
to  make  volumes ;  of  others  I  have  found  but  Httle,  and  of 
others  nothing.  "  There  be  some  of  them  that  have  left 
a  name  behind  them  that  their  praises  might  be  reported. 
And  some  there  be  who  having  no  memorial  are  perished 
as  though  they  had  never  been  born." 

Of  the  present  generations,  some  wish  to  have  a  full  rec- 
ord of  their  famiHes  preserved,  and  have  furnished  ample 
material.  Others  only  wish  brief  outlines,  and  have  fur- 
nished but  little.  Others  are  willing  to  give  names,  but  not 
dates  of  birth,  etc.  Others  "  do  not  wish  to  be  in  print  at 
all,"  etc.  At  least  half  a  dozen  have  taken  the  trouble  to 
prepare  and  send  me  quite  interesting  sketches  of  their 
families  "  for  my  own  perusal,"  coupled  with  the  request 
that  "  they  should  not  be  published."  "  There  are  many 
men  of  many  minds." 

These  differences  in  material  and  of  opinion  have  made 
it  impossible  to  give  the  work  an  entirely  uniform  character. 
But  the  main  object,  considering  all  things,  —  for  the  way 
of  the  genealogist  is  proverbially  hard,  —  has  been  fairly 


PREFACE  vii 

well  accomplished.  The  memory  of  the  forefathers  has 
been  preserved ;  an  outline  of  the  past  history  of  the  past 
generations  of  the  family  has  been  given ;  the  spread  of 
the  descending  stream  has  been  shown ;  the  names  of  the 
descendants  have  been  recorded  quite  completely  down  to 
1861 ;  and  thus  the  initial  step  for  the  future  historian  of 
the  present  generations  has  been  taken. 

I  wish  to  express  my  especial  thanks  to  the  Hon.  Edward 
Carrington  Cabell,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo. ;  Hon.  George  L.  Rives, 
of  New  York ;  Dr.  Julian  M.  Cabell,  U.  S.  A. ;  and  Edmond 
L.  McClelland,  of  Washington,  D.  C,  —  the  especial  patrons 
of  this  book,  —  and  to  other  members  of  the  family  who 
have  patronized  the  work,  and  to  all  who  have  aided  me 
with  material  for  the  book,  or  in  any  other  way.  I  wished 
to  mention  each  one  in  these  premises  by  name,  but  find 
that  I  cannot  do  so  in  a  satisfactory  way.  Some  have  done 
a  great  deal ;  others,  very  little.  Therefore  to  name  all  on 
the  same  footing  would  not  be  fair ;  while  to  state  what 
each  one  did  would  be  to  draw  comparisons,  and  "  compari- 
sons are  odious."  But  each  one  can  rest  assured  that  I  am 
very  grateful  to  all,  and  I  hope  that  all  may  continue  to 
take  an  earnest  interest  in  the  welfare  of  "  the  Cabells  and 
their  kin." 

Alexander  Brown. 

"Union  Hill,"  May  23, 1895. 


CONTENTS. 

"  llfonuments  themselves  memorials  need." 
A  good  edition  of  a  book  —  the  work  of  the  Art  preservative  of  arts  —  secured  in  many  libraries,  is 
the  most  enduring  memorial. 

PAKT  I. 

PASES 

The  Cabells  and  their  Kin  in  England 1-23 

A  brief  account  of  Dr.  William^  Cabell's  younger  brother, 

Joseph  ^,  and  his  descendants  in  England 23-30 


PART   II. 

The  Cabells  and  their  Kin  in  America.     "  Others  of  the  name  "       .  31, 32 
Dr.  William^  Cabell,  the  founder  of  the  family  in   Virginia, 
with  some  account  of  the  earliest  settlement  (1726-1774)  of 

the  upper  valley  of  James  River 32-72 

Henrico  County  to  1728 34^36 

Goochland  County,  1728-1744 36-47 

Albemarle  County,  1745-1761 48-60 

Amherst  County,  1761-1774 60-66 

A  Summary,  1724^1774 66-72 

PART  III. 

The  Founder's  children  and  those  allied  to  them  by  marriage,  with 
much  of  the  history  of  the  upper  valley  of  James  River  (1750- 

1800),  especially  during  the  Revolution 73-171 

I.   Mary  ^  Cabell  and  William  Horsley,  of  "  Centre  Hill  "    .     .         73-75 
II.   Col.  William  ^  Cabell  and  Margaret  Jordan,  of  »  Union  Hill  "      75-130 

III.  Col.  Joseph  2  Cabell  and  Mary  Hopkins,  of  "  Sion  Hill "  .     .     130-141 

IV.  Col.  John  2  Cabell  and  Paulina  Jordan,  of  "  Green  Hill "  .     .     141-145 
V.    Col.  Nicholas  ^  Cabell  and  Hannah  Carrington,  of  "  Liberty 

Hall" 145-171 

PART  IV. 

The  Founder's  grandchildren  and  those  allied  to  them  by  marriage, 
with  some  historical  data,  mainly  of  the  Revolutionary  period, 
and  a  good  deal  of  Virginia  and  Kentucky  biography  and  gene- 
alogy         172-273 

I.   Mary  ^  Cabell  Horsley's  children 172-176 


s  CONTENTS 

6.  William  ^  Horsley  and  Martha  Megginson 172,  173 

7.  Robert  ^  Horsley  and  Judith  Scott,  d.  s.  p 173, 174 

8.  Elizabeth  3  Horsley  and  Roderick  McCulloch   ....  174,175 

9.  John '^  Horsley  and  Fanny  Starke 173,176 

II.   Col.  William  ^  Cabell's  children 17G-227 

10.  Col.  Samuel  J.^  Cabell  and  Sarah  Syme 176-190 

11.  Col.  William  ^  Cabell  and  Anne  Carrington    ....  190-209 

12.  Paulina  ^  Cabell,  Major  Edmund  Read,  and  Rev.  Nash 

Le  Grand,  d.  s.  p 209-212 

13.  Landon  ^  Cabell  and  Judith  Scott  Rose 212-216 

14.  Hector"  Cabell  and  Paulina  Cabell  (26),  rf.  S.J9.      ,     .  216 

15.  Margaret  J."  Cabell  and  Robert  Rives 216-226 

16.  Elizabeth  ^  Cabell  and  William  H.  Cabell  (27)   .     .     .  226,  227 

III.  Col.  Joseph  2  Cabell's  children 227-241 

17.  Elizabeth  3  Cabell  [1st]  and  William  Megginson      .     .  227 

18.  Joseph  "  Cabell,  Pocahontas  R.  Boiling,  and  Mrs.  Anne 

E.  Duval 227-232 

19.  Mary  H.'^  Cabell  and  John  Breckinridge 232-236 

20.  Ann"  Cabell  and  Robert  C.  Harrison 236-240 

21.  Elizabeth  3  Cabell  [2d]  and  William  J.  Lewis     .     .     .  240,241 

IV.  Col.  John  2  Cabell's  children 241-249 

22.  Dr.  George  "  Cabell,  Sr.,  and  Sarah  Winston  ....  241-243 

23.  Frederick^  Cabell  and  Alice  Winston 243,244 

24.  Dr.  John  J."  Cabell  and  Henry  Ann  Davies     ....  244-247 

25.  Samuel  J."  Cabell  and  Susanna  Ewing 247-249 

26.  Paulina"  Cabell,  Hector "  CabeU   (14),  and  William 

Daniel,  d.  s.  p 145,  216 

V.   Col.  Nicholas  Cabell's  children 249-273 

27.  William  H."  Cabell,  Elizabeth  Cabell  (16),  and  Agnes 

S.  B.  Gamble 226,  249-258 

28.  Dr.  George "  Cabell,  Jr.,  and  Susanna  Wyatt      .     .     .  258-260 

29.  Elizabeth "  Cabell  and  William  B.  Hare     .... 

30.  Joseph  C."  Cabell  and  Mary  W.  Carter,  d.  s.  p.  .     . 

31.  Nicholas  "  Cabell,  Jr.,  and  Margaret  R.  Venable     . 

32.  Mary  A.^  Cabell  and  Benjamin  Carrington     .     .     . 


261-263 
263-267 
267-272 
272, 273 


PART  V. 


The  Founder'.s  great-grandchildren,  their  descendants,  and  those 
allied  to  them  by  marriage;  containing  much  history,  biography, 
and  genealogy  subsequent  to  the  Revolution;  coming  down  to  the 
present  time,  and  relating  to  citizens  of  nearly  every  State  of  the 

Union,  and  of  several  foreign  countries 274-610 

I.   Mary  2  Cabell  Horsley's  Branch 274-304 

6.    William "  Horsley's  descendants 274-281 

33.  William  ■•  Horsley's  family  and  alliances  ....     274,  275 

34.  Mary  C*   Horsley  Pendleton's   family  and   alli- 

ances   275,  276 

35.  Robert  *  Horsley's  family  and  alliances  ....  276 


CONTENTS  xi 

36.  Samuel  C*  Horsley's  family  and  alliances  •     .     .  276 

37.  John  *  Horsley's  family  and  alliances       ....  277-281 
8.   Elizabeth^Horsley  McCuUoch's  descendants   ....  282-300 

38.  Mary  *  McCulloch  Thornton's  family  and  alliances  282-285 

39.  Elizabeth*    McCulloch  Davies'    family  and    alli- 

ances    285—288 

40.  Frances  *  McCulloch  Shackelford's  family  and  alli- 

ances   288-291 

41.  Isabella*  McCulloch  Waugh's  family  and  alliances  291,292 

42.  Nancy  E.*  McCulloch  Glasgow's  family  and  alli- 

ances    292,293 

43.  William  H.*  McCuUoch's  family  and  alliances  .     .  293-300 
9.   John  3  Horsley's  descendants 300-304 

44.  Jane  *  Horsley  Roberts'  family  and  alliances    .     .  300, 301 

45.  John  *  Horsley,  Jr.'s  family  and  alliances      .     .     .  301-304 
II.    Col.  William  ^  Cabell's  Branch 304-446 

10.  Col.  Samuel  J.^  Cabell's  descendants 304-324 

46.  William  Syme  *  Cabell's  family  and  alliances   .     .  304-306 

47.  Mildred  Meriwether  *  Cabell  Green's  family  and 

alliances 306-314 

48.  Samuel  Jordan  *  Cabell's  family  and  alliances  .     .  314-316 

49.  Paulina  R.*  Cabell  Whitlock's  family  and  alliances  316 

50.  Margaret    Washington  *    Cabell    Higginbotham's 

family  and  alliances 316-318 

61.    Patrick  Henry  *  Cabell's  family  and  alliances  .     .  318-320 

52.  George  Washington  *  Cabell's  family  and  alliances  320-323 

53.  Emeline  S.*  Cabell  Scruggs-Hart,  d.  s.  p.    .     .     .  323, 324 

11.  Col.  WiUiam  3  Cabell,  Jr.'s  descendants 324-397 

54.  Elvira  *  Cabell  Henry-Bruce's  family  and  alli- 

ances    324r-339 

55.  Margaret*  Cabell  McClelland's  family  and  alli- 

ances    339-354 

56.  Ann  Carringtou*  Cabell  Floumoy's  family  and 

alliances 354-364 

57.  William  Jordan  *  Cabell,  rf.  s. ;) 364,365 

58.  Mary   Elizabeth*  Cabell  Callaway's   family  and 

alliances 365-369 

59.  Clementina  *  Cabell  Irvine's  family  and  alliances  .  369-376 

60.  Sarah  Carrington  *   Cabell   Massie's   family   and 

alliances 376-379 

61.  Edward  A.*  Cabell's  family  and  alliances     .     .     .  379-384 

62.  Paul  Carrington  *  Cabell's  family  and  alliances     .  384-388 

63.  Mayo  *  Cabell's  family  and  alliances 388-396 

64.  Patrick  Henry*  Cabell,  rf.s.p 396,397 

13.  Landon  ^  Cabell's  descendants 397-401 

65.  Landon  R.*  Cabell-Marion  F.  Cabell  (111),  d.  s.p.  397 

66.  Robert  Henry  *  Cabell's  family  and  alliances    .     .  397-399 

67.  Elizabeth  *  Cabell  Preston's  family  and  alliances  .  399-401 
15.   Margaret  J.^  Cabell  Rives'  descendants 401-446 


xii  CONTENTS 

68.  Landon  Cabell  *  Rives'  family  and  alliances     .     .  401-406 

69.  Margaret  Jordan  *  Rives,  d.  s.  p 406,  407 

70.  William  Cabell  *  Rives'  family  and  alliances     .     .  407-425 

71.  Lucy  Shands  *  Rives  Brown's  family  aud  alliances  425-433 

72.  Paulina  Cabell  *  Rives  Pollard's  family  and  alli- 

ances    433-438 

73.  Robert  *  Rives'  family  and  alliances 438,  439 

74.  Henry  *  Rives,  d.  s.  p 439 

75.  George  *  Rives'  family  and  alliances 439-442 

76.  Alexander  *  Rives'  family  and  alliances   ....  442-446 
III.    Col.  Joseph  2  Cabell's  Branch 446-531 

17.  Elizabeth  ^  Cabell  Megginson's  descendants    ....  446-452 

77.  Joseph  Cabell  *  Megginson's   family  and  alliances  446-452 

18.  Joseph  ^  Cabell  Jr.'s  descendants 452-486 

78.  Sophonisba  E.*  Cabell  Grayson's  family  and  alli- 

ances   452^454 

79.  Sarah  Boiling  *  Cabell  Meredith's  family  and  alli- 

ances         454^62 

80.  Joseph  M.*  Cabell,  d.  s.  p 462 

81.  Edward  Blair  *  Cabell's  family  and  alliances    .     .  462^169 

82.  Benjamin  W.  S.*  Cabell's  family  and  alliances  .     .  469-477 

83.  Mary  P.  R.*  Cabell  Doswell's  family  and  alliances, 

extinct 477, 478 

84.  Jane  Randolph  *  Cabell  Allin's  family  and  alli- 

ances    478,  479 

85.  John  Breckinridge  *  Cabell's  family  and  alliances  479,  480 

86.  Elizabeth  R.*  Cabell  Pollitt-Dixon's  family  and 

alliances 480^83 

87.  Robert  Boiling  *  Cabell's  family  and  alliances  .     .  484,  485 

88.  George  Washington  *  Cabell's  family  and  alliances  485,  486 

89.  Mary  A.  H.^   CabeU  Willard's   family  and   alli- 

ances    486 

19.  Mary  H.^  Cabell  Breckinridge's  descendants      .     .     .  486-515 

90.  Letitia  Preston  *  Breckinridge  Grayson-Porter's 

family  and  alliances 486-489 

91.  Joseph   Cabell  *   Breckinridge's   family   and   alli- 

ances    489-497 

92.  Mary  Anne,*  Breckinridge  Castleman's  family  and 

alliances,  extinct 497 

93.  John  ■*  Breckinridge's  family  and  alliances   .     .     .  497-500 

94.  Robert  Jefferson*  Breckinridge's  family  and  alli- 

ances     600-511 

95.  William  Lewis*  Breckinridge's  family  and  alli- 

ances    511-515 

20.  Ann  ^  Cabell  Harrison's  descendants 515-531 

96.  Susanna  Randolph  *  Harrison  Lewis-Brent,  d.  s.  p.  515 

97.  Mary    Hopkins  *    Harrison   Richardson's    family 

and  alliances 515-519 

98.  Joseph  Cabell  *  Harrison's  family  and  alliances     .  519,  520 


CONTENTS  xiii 

99.   Carter  Henry  *  Harrison's  family  and  alliances     .  620-524 

100.  Ann  Cabell  *  Harrison  Brown's  family  and  alli- 

ances    524,525 

101.  Robert  Carter  *  Harrison's  family  and  alliances  •         525 

102.  Elizabeth  Lewis  *  Harrison  Devore's  family  and 

alliances 525,  526 

103.  Sarah    Randolph*   Harrison    Lansdale-BuUdey's 

family  and  alliances 526 

104.  Virginia*  Harrison  Castleman's  family  and  alli- 

ances       526-531 

105.  Pocahontas  R.  P.*  Harrison  Sloane's  family  and 

alliances 531 

IV.   Col.  John  2  Cabell's  Branch 531-557 

22.  Dr.  George  ^  Cabell,  Sr.'s  descendants 531-539 

106.  Paulina  *  Cabell  Henry's  family  and  alliances  .     .  531,  532 

107.  George  Kuhn  *  Cabell's  family  and  alliances     .     .  532,533 

108.  Alice  *  CabeU  Carrington's  family  and  alliances    .  533-535 

109.  John  Breckinridge  *  Cabell's  family  and  alliances .  535-539 

110.  William  J.  Lewis  *  Cabell's  family  and  alliances, 

extinct 243 

111.  Marion   F.*  CabeU-Dr.    Landon  R.    Cabell  (65), 

d.s.p 397 

23.  Frederick  ^  Cabell's  descendants 539-544 

112.  Mary  Mildred  *  Cabell  Horsley.     See  under  37. 

113.  Frederick  M.*  Cabell's  family  and  alliances      .     .  539,  540 

114.  Edmund  W.*  Cabell's  family  and  alliances  .     .     .  540 

115.  Clifford  *  Cabell's  family  and  alliances     ....  540-542 

116.  Paulina   Virginia  *   Cabell    Mosby's   family   and 

alliances 542, 543 

117.  Louis  Warrington  *  Cabell's  family  and  alliances  .  543,  544 

24.  Dr.  John  J.3  Cabell's  descendants 544-549 

118.  Judith   Scott*   Cabell   Crall^'s  family   and   alli- 

ances    544-546 

119.  Sarah  Winston  *  Cabell  Ward's  family  and  alli- 

ances    546,547 

120.  Frances  Whiting  *  Cabell  Friend's  family  and  alli- 

ances    547,548 

121.  Henry  Ann  *  Cabell  Early's  family  and  alliances  .  548,  549 

25.  Samuel  J.'^  Cabell's  descendants 550-557 

122.  Paulina  J.*  Cabell  McCormack-Lackey's  family 

and  alliances 650 

123.  William  E.*  Cabell's  family  and  alliances     .     .     .  550-552 

124.  Jennetta  *  Cabell  Simpson's  family  and  alliances  552, 553 

125.  Elizabeth  *  Cabell  McElroy's  family  and  alliances  554 

126.  Madison*  Cabell's  family  and  alliances    ....  554,555 

127.  Elvira  A.*  Cabell  Anderson's  family  and  alliances  555, 556 

128.  Frederick  *  Cabell's  family  and  alliances     .     .     .  556,  557 
V.   Col.  Nicholas  ^  Cabell's  Branch 558-610 

27.   WiUiam  H.^  Cabell's  descendants 558-591 


xiv  CONTENTS 

129.  Louisa  Elizabeth  ■•  Cabell  Carringtoa's  family  and 

alliances 558-567 

130.  Emma  Catherine  *  Cabell  Carrington's  family  and 

alliances 567-571 

131.  Robert  Gamble  *  Cabell's  famDy  and  alliances .     .  672-574 

132.  Elizabeth  Hannah  *  Cabell  Daniel,  d.  s.  p.    .     .     .  574 

133.  Edward  Carrington  *  Cabell's  family  and  alliances  574^84 

134.  John  Grattan  *  Cabell's  famUy  and  alliances     .     .  584,  585 

135.  Henry  Coalter  *  Cabell's  family  and  alliances   .     .  586-591 

28.  Dr.  George  ^  Cabell,  Jr.'s  descendants 591-597 

136.  John  Nicholas  *  Cabell's  family  and  alliances   .     .  591,  592 

137.  Elizabeth  C*  Cabell  Alexander's  family  and  alli- 

ances    592-596 

138.  James  Lawrence  ■•  Cabell,  d.  s.  p 596,  597 

29.  Elizabeth  ^  Cabell  Hare's  descendants 597-601 

139.  Hannah  Heniugham  *  Hare  Crawford  d.  s.  p.  .     .  597 

140.  Sarah  Elizabeth  *  Hare  Reid's  family  and  alliances  597-601 

31.  Nicholas  ^  CabeU,  Jr.'s  descendants 601-605 

141.  Nathaniel  Francis  ■*  Cabell's  family  and  alliances .  601-605 

32.  Mary  A.''  Cabell  Carrington's  descendants      ....  605-610 

142.  Joseph  Nicholas  *  Carrington's  family  and    alli- 

ances    605-607 

143.  Sophonisba ''   Carrington  Powell's  family  and  alli- 

ances    607,608 

144.  James   Lawrence*   Carrington's  family  and  alli- 

ances    608 

145.  Gilbert  Paul  *  Carrington's  family  and  alliances    .  608,  609 

146.  Elizabeth  Hannah  *  Carrington  Hartsook's  family 

and  alliances 609, 610 

Index 611-641 


LIST   OF  ILLUSTRATIONS. 

[There  is,  I  believe,  no  authentic  portrait  of  Dr.  William  Cabell,  the  emi- 
grant, and  there  are  no  good  pictures,  so  far  as  I  know,  of  any  of  his  children. 
I  could  not  assume  the  responsibility  of  selecting  for  insertion  the  likenesses 
of  those  of  later  generations.  The  portraits  in  this  "memorial  volume "  have 
been  inserted  by  relatives  or  friends  as  memorials  for  those  who  are  dead,  and 
as  tokens  of  affection  for  those  who  are  living  ;  thus  they  have  an  especially 
appropriate  value.] 

The    Cabeix  Window  in  the  Chapel    of   St.  Nicholas.    1517. 

See  page  8 Frontispiece 

Chuech  of  St.  John  Baptist,  Frome,  Somersetshire,  England  .    .        6 

BUCKFASTLEIGH   AbBEY,    DEVONSHIRE,   ENGLAND 16 

Fac-simile    of    Commission    of    Col.   William    Cabell,    Sr.,    as 

County  Lieutenant  of  Amherst,  Va.     1761 80 

V.   Mrs.  Hannah  Carrington  Cabell 156 

From  a  St.  Memin  portrait.  1807-1808.  (Inserted  by  her 
grandson,  Hon.  E.  C.  Cabell,  and  her  great-grandson,  Dr.  J.  M. 
CabeU,  U.  S.  A.) 

11.  Mrs.  Anne  Carrington  Cabell 204 

From  a  portrait  by  George  Cooke.  1834.  (Inserted  by  her 
granddaughter,  Mrs.  Sarah  Randolph  Brown.) 

27.  Judge  William  H.  Cabell 250 

From  a  portrait  by  Jarvis.  About  1832.  (Inserted  by  his  son, 
Hon.  E.  C.  Cabell,  and  his  grandson,  Dr.  J.  M.  Cabell,  U.  S.  A.) 

(27.)   Mrs.  Agnes  S.  B.  Gamble  Cabell 252 

From  a  portrait  by  Jarvis.  About  1832.  (Inserted  by  her  son, 
Hon.  E.  C.  Cabell,  and  her  grandson.  Dr.  J.  M.  Cabell,  U.  S.  A.) 

(27.)   Col.  Egbert  Gamble 256 

From  a  St.  Memin  portrait.  1807-1808.  (Inserted  by  his 
grandson,  Hon.  E.  C.  Cabell,  and  his  great-grandson.  Dr.  J.  M. 
Cabell,  U.  S.  A.) 

30-  Hon.  Joseph  Carrington  Cabell 264 

From  his  portrait  at  the  University  of  Virginia.  (Inserted  by 
his  nephew,  Hon.  E  C.  Cabell,  and  his  grand-nephew,  Rev.  P. 
B.  CabeU.) 

31.  Nicholas  Cabell,  Jr. 268 

From  a  St.  Memin  portrait.  1807-1808.  (Inserted  by  his  great- 
grandson,  J.  Hartwell  Cabell.) 

148.   Dr.  William  A.  Horsley 278 

From  a  daguerreotype.  (Inserted  by  his  widow,  Mrs.  Eliza  G. 
Perkins  Horsley.) 


xvi  LIST  OF  ILLUSTRATIONS 

42.  Mrs.  Nancy  Ellis  McCulloch  Glasgow 292 

From  a  miniature.  1854.  (Inserted  by  her  daughter,  Mrs. 
Hobson  Johns.) 

(42.)   Joseph  Glasgow,  Esq 292 

From  a  daguerreotype.  (Inserted  by  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Hob- 
son  Johns.) 

168.   Hon.  Champe  Carter  McCulloch 298 

From  a  photograph.  (Inserted  by  his  son,  Dr.  C.  C.  McCulloch, 
U.  S.  A.) 

199.   Mrs.  Sarah  Bruce  Seddon 332 

From  a  portrait  painted  about  1849.  (Inserted  by  her  son, 
Thomas  Seddon,  Esq.) 

(199.)   Hon.  James  Alexander  Seddon 334 

From  a  photograph  taken  about  1864.  (Inserted  by  his  son, 
Thomas  Seddon,  Esq.) 

210.   Mrs.  Anne  Seddon  Bruce  Page 338 

From  a  photograph.     (Inserted  by  Thomas  Nekon  Page,  LL.  D.) 

(55.)   Hon.  Thomas  Stanhope  McClelland 340 

From  a  portrait  by  George  Cooke.  About  1833.  ("  Inserted  by 
eight  of  his  descendants.") 

(211.)   Mary  Greenway  McClelland 346 

From  a  photograph  taken  about  1887.  (She  died  at  half  past 
two  o'clock  on  Friday  morning,  August  2,  1895,  at  Elm  Cot- 
tage, and  this  portrait  was  inserted  as  a  memorial  to  her  by 
her  cousins,  Thomas  S.,  Edraond  L.,  and  J.  Bruce  McClel- 
land, Hon.  W.  W.  Henry,  and  WiUiam  D.  and  Louis  W. 
Cabell.) 

63.  Mayo  Cabell,  Esq 388 

From  a  portrait  by  George  Cooke.  1832-1834.  (Inserted  by  his 
son,  Edward  Marshall  Cabell.) 

66.   Dr.  Robert  Henry  Cabell 398 

From  a  miniature.     (Inserted  by  his  daughter  Virginia.) 

70.   Hon.  William  Cabell  Rives 408 

From  a  lithograph  by  Fenderich.    1839.    (Inserted  by  his  grand- 
sons, Hon.  George  L.  and  Dr.  William  C.  Rives.) 

76.  Judge  Alexander  Rives 442 

From  a  photograph.  (Inserted  by  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Adela 
Bertha  Rives  Skinker.) 

377.   General  John  Cabell  Breckinridge,  C.  S.  A 494 

From  a  photograph.     (Inserted  by  his  children.) 

93.  Rev.  John  Breckinridge,  D.  D 498 

From   an   engraving  by  J.  Serz.     (Inserted  by   Mrs.  Virginia 

Harrison  Castleman  Breckinridge.) 

394.  Judge  Samuel  Miller  Breckinridge 500 

From  a  photograph.     (Inserted  by   his    widow,  Mrs.  Virginia 

H.  C.  Breckinridge.) 

94.  Rev.  Robert  Jefferson  Breckinridge,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.    .     .     .    502 

From  an  engraving  by  C.  Burt.  (Inserted  by  his  son,  General 
Joseph  Cabell  Breckinridge.) 


LIST  OF  ILLUSTRATIONS  xvii 

406.  General  Joseph  Cabell  Breckinridge,  U.  S.  A 510 

From  a  photograph.     (Inserted  by  his  sons.) 

104.  Mrs.  Virginia  Harrison  Castleman 526 

From  a  photograph  taken  in  her  89th  year.     (Inserted  by  her 
son,  Hon.  George  A.  Castleman.) 

489.  Hon.  William  Cabell  Carrington 560 

From   a  portrait  by  L.  M.  D.   Guilliaume.     (Inserted  by  his 
daughter,  Mrs.  R.  A.  Lancaster.) 

493.  Col.  Henry  Alexander  Carrington,  C.  S.  A 666 

From  a  photograph.     (Inserted  by  his  children.) 

133.  Hon.  Edward  Carrington  Cabell 576 

From  a  photograph  taken  in  his  77th  year.     (Inserted  by  Alex- 
ander Brown.) 

(133.)  Mrs.  Anna  Maria  Wilcox  Cabell 580 

From  a  photograph  taken  in  her  40th  year.     (Inserted  by  her 
husband,  Hon.  E.  C.  Cabell.) 

135.  Col.  Henry  Coalter  Cabell,  C.  S.  A 586 

From  a  photograph.     (Inserted  by  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Herbert 
A.  Claiborne.) 

138.  Db.  James  Lawrence  Cabell 596 

From  a  photograph.     (Inserted  by  his  nephew,  James  W.  Alex- 
ander.) 

141.  Nathaniel  Francis  Cabell 602 

From  an  ambrotype  taken  in  his  50th  year.     (Inserted  by  his 
son,  Rev.  Philip  B.  CabeU.) 


THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN. 


PART  I. 
THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN  IN  ENGLAND. 

"  0  tract  of  Tyme,  that  all  consumes  to  dust, 
We  hold  thee  not,  for  thou  art  bald  behinde  : 
The  fairest  sword,  or  mettall,  thou  wilt  rust. 
And  brightest  things  bring  quickly  out  of  minde. 
The  trimmest  towers,  and  castles  great  and  gay, 
In  processe  long  at  length  thou  doest  decay ; 
The  bravest  house,  and  princely  buildings  rare, 
Thou  wasts,  and  weares,  and  leaves  the  walls  but  bare." 

Sundry  papers  left  by  Dr.  William  Cabell,  the  emigrant, 
in  Virginia,  together  with  sundry  documents  which  I  have 
found  in  England,  make  it  certain  that  he  was  a  grandson 
of  WiUiam  Cabell,  who  came  to  Warminster,  England,  about 
1664,  and  died  there  in  1704.  I  have  been  at  some  ex- 
pense in  the  effort  to  find  out  where  this  William  Cabell 
came  from,  but  I  have  not  been  entirely  successful.  It 
seems  certain  that  he  was  of  the  Frome-Selwood  family, 
and  probable  that  he  came  from  Buckfastleigh.  However, 
the  object  of  this  work  is  to  treat  of  the  founding  of  a  new 
family  in  the  New  World  and  to  trace  down  the  descen- 
dants, rather  than  to  treat  of  an  old  family  in  the  Old 
World  and  to  trace  back  the  ancestors.  And  therefore 
some  general  remarks  on  the  Cabells  and  their  kin  in 
England,  with  some  particulars  of  several  branches,  will  be 
sufficient  for  the  introductory  purposes  necessary  in  these 
premises. 

In  addition  to  Dr.  William  Cabell's  papers,  I  have  had 


2  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

reference  to  copies  of  sundry  documents  brought  from  Eng^ 
land  by  the  Hon.  James  Alston  Cabell  of  Richmond,  the  late 
Rev.  H.  C.  Alexander,  D.  D.,  and  others.  A  faithful  re- 
search has  been  conducted  there  for  me  by  the  Rev. 
Charles  Herbert  Mayo,  M.  A.,  in  Dorset,  Somerset,  and 
Wiltshire ;  the  late  Rev.  Beaver  H.  Blacker,  M.  A.,  in 
Gloucestershire ;  and  by  Col.  William  Cabell  and  others  in 
London  and  elsewhere  in  England.  One  of  the  most  in- 
teresting documents  that  I  have  found  is  a  book  of  about 
100  pages,  still  in  manuscript  —  "  Memoirs  of  the  Cabells 
or  Cabbells" — which  was  compiled,  as  I  understand,  for 
the  late  Benjamin  Bond  Cabbell  (1781-1874),  of  Cromer 
Hall,  Norfolk,  by  Gabriel  Ogilvey,  Fellow  of  the  Society  of 
Antiquaries  of  Normandy,  in  1867-1869.  It  relates  to  the 
family  in  England  and  in  Normandy,  1066-1675.  I  will 
give  extracts  from  it  from  time  to  time.  It  begins  :  "  The 
history  of  this  family  may  be  traced  from  the  beginning  of 
the  eleventh  century  when  Walter  Cabel  witnessed  a  charter 
of  Bradenstone  in  Wiltshire.  This  Walter  Cabel  appears 
to  have  come  over  to  England  at  the  time  of  the  Conquest 
with  Walter  d'Evreau,  Earl  of  Rosmare  and  Nantu  in 
Verein  [indistinct],  whose  great  grandson  Patrick  d'Evreau 
was  created  Earl  of  Salisbury  in  the  time  of  King  Stephen. 
That  Walter  Cabell  settled  at  once  in  Wiltshire  is  proved 
l)y  the  fact  that,  some  time  after  the  Conquest,  he  sold  his 
demesne  to  Adam  Turgot,  another  Norman.  This  demesne 
was  called  Radeclive,  which  name  may  be  now  Radcliff. 
The  successors  of  Walter  Cabel  continued  in  the  counties 
of  Wilts,  Dorset,  Devon,  and  Somerset.  There  is  some  con- 
fusion in  the  arms  of  this  family:  the  old  historian  of  De- 
vonshire attributes  to  the  Cabells  of  Buckfastleigh,  Sable, 
a  horse  upright  argent,  bridled  or;  and  to  others  of  the 
same  name, Vert  a  fesse  argent,  fretted  gules.  It  might  be 
that  the  horse  must  have  been  the  ordinary  arms  of  this 
family,  the  etymology  of  the  name  being  evidently  Ca- 
hallus  as  will  be  seen  hereafter. 

"  Gabriel  Ogilvey,  F.  S.  A.,  of  Normandy." 


IN  ENGLAND  3 

Farther  on  Mr.  Ogilvey  writes :  "  It  is  a  fact  that  the 
Normans  did  use  the  Latin  term  of  '  Caballus '  instead  of 
that  of  '  Equus '  for  the  noblest  of  quadrupeds  in  the 
world,  and  it  is  another  that  some  Norman  families  took 
such  a  name  from  some  of  their  ancestors  having  thus  been 
designated  from  their  strength  and  courage,  or  from  some 
other  allusion  we  know  not.  It  is  a  fact  yet  that  there  was 
existing  in  Normandy  until  very  recently  a  family  of  some 
note,  bearing  the  name  of  Cheval  and  Queval. 

"  This  ancient  family  had  also  taken  a  part  in  the  conquest 
of  England  in  the  person  of  Robertus  Cabalus,  who  settled 
himself  in  the  county  of  Norfolk ;  and  his  successors  ap- 
pear under  various  alterations  of  the  name  in  the  rolls  of 
the  Tower  and  Exchequer.  Thus  we  find  there  recorded 
Cheval,  Chevall,  Chivall,  etc.  In  1131,  the  great  Roll  of 
the  Exchequer  mentions  '  Hugo  Chivillus.'  In  1165,  the 
Black  Book  of  the  Exchequer,  '  Henricus  Chevel.'  I  have 
thus  quoted  these  few  examples  in  order  to  show  that,  if 
the  families  of  Cabell  and  Chevall,  which  both  took  part  in 
the  Conquest,  are  not  identical  (and  this  might  fairly  be 
inferred  from  the  above  quotations)  at  least  the  etymology 
of  both  names  is  the  same. 

"  I  have  said  in  the  first  pages  of  this  book  that  Walter 
Cabel  had  come  over  to  England  with  Walter  d'Evreau, 
with  whom  he  settled  in  Wiltshire.  In  fact,  Walter  Cabel 
must  have  been  a  ^  Vavasseur '  of  the  same  Walter  d'Evreau 
in  Normandy,  if  I  may  infer  it  from  the  following  facts : 
There  is  in  the  vicinity  of  the  tower  of  Evreau  a  locality,  or 
rather  a  hamlet,  depending  from  the  Common  of  Bois- 
Arnand,  now  called  Le  Chable ;  the  name  of  this  locality 
frequently  appears  in  Norman  Charters  as  Chablun  and 
Chaablan.  It  is  fairly  presumable  that  this  locality,  which 
we  find  first  mentioned  in  1219,  owed  its  name  to  the  family 
of  Cabell,  a  branch  of  which  subsisted  for  some  time  in 
Normandy.  Gabriel  Ogilvey." 

The  word  "  Caballus  "  is  used  for  "  horse  "  in  Domesday 


4  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

Book,  and  it  seems  certain  that  the  family  derived  its  sur- 
name from  that  word.  As  surnames  were  introduced  into 
England  by  the  Normans  at  the  Conquest,  and  as  they  had 
but  recently  come  into  use  in  Normandy,  the  family,  hav- 
ing been  traced  to  1066,  has  been  traced  back  about  as  far 
as  it  could  be  with  any  certainty.  Men  took  their  surnames 
in  various  ways.  Some  took  them  from  the  arms  which 
they  or  their  ancestors  had  made  illustrious ;  and  the  white 
horse  rampant,  with  its  bit  and  bridle  of  gold,  on  the  war- 
rior's black  shield,  may  have  been  carried  to  the  front  on 
many  a  hard  fought  field  of  battle  before  it  gave  to  its 
owner  his  name. 

The  learned  Camden,  referring  to  the  oldest  mottoes  he 
ever  met  with,  mentions  the  old  seal  of  Sir  Thomas  Cavall, 
who  bore  for  his  arms  a  horse,  and  for  his  motto,  "  Thomse 
credite,  cum  cernitis  ejus  equum." 

As  the  name  is  derived  from  Caballus,  I  suppose  the 
correct  way  of  spelling  to  be  Cabal  or  Caball,  Cabel  or 
Cabell ;  but  I  have  found  it  spelled  in  almost  every  con- 
ceivable way :  Cabbie,  Cable,  Cabel,  Cabell,  Cabbel,  Cabbell, 
Cabal,  Caball,  Cabbal,  Cabball,  Cabyll,  Cabbil,  Caable, 
Cabul,  CabuU,  Chaable,  Cavall,  Cavel,  Capel,  Capell,  Caple, 
Cabelle,  etc. ;  Kaable,  Kable,  Kabell,  Kabel,  Kabbel,  Kebel, 
Kebell,  Kebyll,  Keble,  Kebble,  Kebbel,  Kebbell,  Keeble, 
Kyble,  Gabble,  Gabbell,  Gable,  etc.,  etc.  In  French,  I  find 
the  names  Cabal  and  Cheval;  in  Spanish,  Caballero  and 
Cavallero ;  in  Dutch,  Cabel  and  Kabel ;  in  Italian,  Cabal- 
lero, Caballinus,  Caballis,  CabaUo,  and  Caballus;  and  in 
Genoese,  Caballo.  In  a  list  of  foreign  Doctors  of  the  16th 
century,  I  find  the  following:  Francesco  Caballo  or  Ca- 
ballus, Italian  physician  and  medical  writer,  died  1540 ; 
Guillaume  [William]  Cappel  [Cabell?],  French  Doctor  of 
Medicine,  born  1530 ;  and  Pierre  Cabal,  French  surgeon 
and  writer,  who  flourished  in  1570. 

But  we  must  return  to  the  family  in  England.  Mr. 
Ogilvey  says :  "  Walter  d'Evreau,  or  Salisbury,  having 
founded  the   Austin   Priory  of  Bradenstone  in  Wiltshire, 


IN  ENGLAND  5 

about  the  beginning  of  the  reign  of  Henry  I.  Adam  Tur- 
got  (a  Norman  who  was  certainly  one  of  the  Conquerors  of 
1066)  was  one  of  the  benefactors,  and  stands  recorded  as 
havinof  g"iven  to  the  said  house  of  Bradenstone  a  demesne, 
called  Radeclive,  which  he  had  previously  bought  of  Walter 
Cabel.  (Monastrion  Anglicanum,  nova  editio,  Vol.  6,  p. 
340''.  Brit.  Mus.  2062  e.)  Such  a  fact  and  charter  prove 
that  Walter  Cabel  had  been  present  at  the  conquest  of 
England  in  1066,  and  had  obtained  for  his  share  the  land 
of  RadcHfFe  in  Wiltshire."  Mr.  Ogilvey's  Memoranda, 
extracted  from  sundry  records,  etc.,  go  on  to  show  that: 

Walter  Kabell  owned  land  in  Wiltshire  in  1110. 

Jeffrey  Cabell  owned  land  in  the  county  of  Caux,  Nor- 
mandy, in  1180. 

Gilbert  de  Cabel  owned  land  in  Caux  in  1184-1198. 

Walter  Cabell  owned  a  forest  in  Buckinghamshire,  Eng- 
gland,  in  1198. 

Evermere  Cabell  owned  land  in  the  same  shire  in  1205. 
**  That  is  about  the  time  of  the  secession  of  Normandy 
from  England.  Soon  after  must  have  lived  Ranulf  Cabel 
de  Careby  (what  I  take  to  be  Cadeby  [Cadbury]  in  Somer- 
setshire). He  married  a  lady  of  the  name  of  Sybil,  who 
was  a  relative  of  William  de  Jumieges.  This  William  de 
Jumieges  belonged  to  a  Norman  family  of  some  note  which 
had  settled  in  Somersetshire  at  the  time  of  the  Conquest 
and  had  come  originally  from  the  little  boro'  of  Jumieges 
also  in  the  county  of  Evreau,  from  which  had  the  Cabells 
originated,  as  has  been  previously  shown.  This  Ranulf 
Cabel  de  Careby  had  a  son  and  heir  of  the  name  of  Hugh 
Cabel,  who  in  the  year  1253  was  wrongly  accused  of  having 
been  instrumental  to  the  death  of  a  certain  Thomas  de 
Skendelby,  when  it  was  clearly  established  that  this  last 
named  had  been  killed  by  Richard  son  of  Humfray  of 
Edenham.  [Here  follows  the  quotation  in  Latin.]  .  .  . 
De  anno  37th  Hen.  III.  Hugo  Cabellus  alias  Kabel  de 
Kareby  .  .  .  (Calendarium  Genealogicum,  Vol.  I.  p.  90. 
Brit.  Mus.  2075.     C.     80.     London,  1866.)  " 


6  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

North  Cadbury  is  about  fifteen  miles  from  Frome- 
Selwood  or  Froome-Selwood. 

There  are  sundry  other  references  to  sundry  other  Ca- 
bells,  in  several  other  parts  of  England ;  but  I  must  eon- 
fine  myself  to  the  Cabells  of  Frome-Selwood  in  the  county 
of  Somerset,  England,  from  which  stock  the  Cabells  of 
Viroinia  are  descended. 

o 

In  1350,  John  Cabel,  son  of  John  Cabel  of  Frome,  and 
several  others,  were  allowed  by  the  king  for  a  designated 
sum  of  money  to  give  certain  tenements  with  their  appurte- 
nances in  Frome,  to  be  held  in  mortmain,  to  the  chaplain  of 
that  place.  How  long  the  family  had  then  been  settled  at 
Frome  I  do  not  know ;  but  we  may  readily  suppose  that 
John  Cabel,  the  father,  was  born  prior  to  1300.  In  1408, 
John  Cabel  of  Frome  (possibly  the  same  giver,  but  more 
probably  his  son),  after  an  "  inquisition  ad  quod  damnum," 
gave  four  messuages  and  certain  lands,  etc.,  with  their  ap- 
purtenances, in  Frome-Braunche,  Somerset,  to  the  chaplain 
there.  An  "  inquisition  ad  quod  damnum  "  was  held  when 
a  person  wished  to  endow  a  chantry  or  monastery  with 
land,  to  ascertain  if  it  would  be  to  the  king's  hurt  or  loss 
if  he  did  so. 

About  this  time,  and  for  some  time  thereafter,  the  family 
seem  to  have  been  taking  an  especial  interest  in  religious 
matters,  and  we  find  them  mentioned  chiefly  in  connection 
with  gifts  to  the  church,  or  as  priests,  monks,  etc.,  in 
Somerset,  in  Dorset,  in  Devon,  in  Norfolk,  etc. 

"  Frome  in  Somersetshire,  only  a  few  miles  from  Trow- 
bridge, county  Wilts,  was  the  headquarters  of  the  Cabell 
family.  The  church  contains  a  chapel,  called  the  chapel  of 
Saint  Nicholas,  which  was  founded  by  John  Cabell  in  1517." 
I  have  found  no  description  of  this  chapel  as  it  originally 
was,  but  I  am  assured  that  the  windows  were  filled  with 
stained  glass  coats  of  arms,  etc.  Collingson,  in  his  history 
of  Somerset,  describes  the  church  of  S.  John  of  Frome  as 
it  was  in  1791.  It  was  for  a  time  neglected,  but  is  now 
a  most  beautiful  church,  splendidly  decorated,  restored  in 


CHURCH  OF  S.  JOHN  BAPTIST 
Frame.  Sontersetahire 


IN  ENGLAND  7 

1862-1866,  by  the  Rev.  William  James  Early  Bennett, 
who  was  Vicar  of  the  church  from  1852  to  his  death  in 
1886. 

On  entering  the  church,  there  will  be  seen  on  the  north 
side,  nearest  the  door,  the  sculptured  figure  of  S.  Aldhelm, 
the  founder  of  the  church.  He  is  represented  as  founder, 
according  to  ancient  custom,  by  carrying  the  model  of  the 
chui'ch  in  his  hand.  Underneath  his  statue  is  a  brass  plate 
commemoratino*  the  foundation  and  the  restoration  of  the 

o 

church,  with  a  Latin  inscription,  which  may  be  translated 
thus : 

>h  Saint  Aldhelm,  Blsliop  of  Sherhorne,  as  tradition 
tells  us,  laid  the  foundation  of  this  sacred  house  of  God 
about  the  year  of  our  Lord  680,  and  after  many  vicissi- 
tudes and  decay,  the  Parishioners,  loith  certain  friends  of 
the  church,  at  their  oimi  cost,  hi  the  name  of  the  Holy 
Trinity,  offered  to  Almighty  God  its  Restoration,  which 
was  begun  in  the  year  1862,  and  brought  to  a  hajjpy  con- 
clusion on  the  Feast  of  the  Patron  Saint,  John  Baptist, 
in  the  year  of  our  Lord  1866.  It  was  in  the  reign  of 
Queen  Victoria.  Pobert  John  was  Bishop;  William 
J.  E.  Bennett,  Parish  Priest ;  Edmund  Baily  and 
William  C.  Penny,  Church  Wardens.  Glory  be  to  God 
alone  in  Christ.  *b 

The  full  particulars  of  the  restoration,  etc.,  are  given  in 
a  Hdle  book  called  "  The  Old  Church  of  S.  John  Baptist, 
Froome-Selwood,  ...  by  the  Rev.  W.  J.  E.  Bennett,  with 
a  preface  by  the  Rev.  the  Hon.  A.  Hanbury-Tracy,  Vicar. 
Third  Edition.  Froome  :  W.  C.  &  J.  Penny.  1888."  A 
copy  of  this  was  sent  to  me  from  Frome  by  the  Rev. 
Mayo  Cabell  Martin,  when  he  was  on  a  visit  there  several 
years  ago.  This  book  also  describes  the  chapel  of  S. 
Nicholas,  which  was  founded  by  John  Cabell  in  1517. 
The  large  north  window  of  this  chapel  (of  six  lights)  is 
filled  with  handsome  modern  stained  glass,  chiefly  in  memo- 
rial of  S.  Nicholas,  to  whom  the  chapel  is  dedicated,  and 
the  apostolic  commission  of  Baptism,  —  the  chapel  being 


8  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

now  used  as  the  bajitistery.  But  in  the  lower  part  of  the 
two  middle  lights  are  inserted  four  shields  of  arms,  ancient, 
which  were  in  the  chapel  before  the  restoration.  These 
four  panels  constitute  all  that  was  left  of  the  original  old 
glass  in  the  church.  The  remainder  was  destroyed  by  the 
Puritans  in  1649-1659,  when  much  of  the  old  stained  glass 
of  England  shared  the  same  fate.  The  splendid  glow  of 
mediaeval  glass  is  now  comparatively  rare  in  England ;  even 
the  smallest  fragments  of  it  are  put  together  in  odd  places 
in  the  lights,  and  preserved  with  a  jealous  devotion. 

The  Vicar  in  his  little  book  described  these  arms  thus  : 
"  The  intervening  four  medallions  contain  the  armorial 
bearings  of  the  founder  of  the  chapel,  whose  name  was 
Cabell.  Observe  carefully  the  curious  play  upon  the  name. 
There  is  the  letter  K  with  a  bell  attached  to  it,  and  the  whole 
surrounded  by  a  rope  or  cable.  The  dolphin,  sea-horse,  and 
cable  as  appertaining  to  the  sea,  agree  with  S.  Nicholas,  pa- 
tron of  sailors,  and  with  our  present  use  of  the  chapel,  which 
is  for  the  waters  of  Baptism.  These  armorial  bearings  are 
the  sole  remains  of  painted  glass  throughout  the  whole 
church  saved  from  the  destruction  of  the  Piu'itans." 

The  four  shields  of  arms  may  be  emblazoned  thus  :  — 

I.  Sable,  a  horse  rampant  Argent,  bitted  and  bridled 
Or ;  impaling  —  Sable,  a  chevron  between  three  dolphins 
embowed  Argent:  on  a  chief  Gules,  a  leopard's  head 
[face]  jessant-de-Hs  Or. 

II.  Sable,  a  horse  rampant  Argent,  bitted  and  bridled 
Or  ;  impaHng.  Argent  [I  think  this  should  be  Azure~\  — 
Collingson  says,  "  a  pillar,"  but  it  is  also  like  "  a  taU  altar 
candlestick,"  "  a  taper  candlestick,"  and  "  a  market  cross  " — 
Or,  between  two  human  heads,  couped  respecting  each 
other,  crined  Or  the  last.  [Two  human  heads  in  fess 
respecting,  proper,  the  heads  crined  Or.^ 

III.  Sable,  a  chevron  between  three  dolphins  embowed 
Argent :  on  a  chief  Gules,  a  leopard's  head  [face]  jessant- 
de-lis  Or. 

IV.  Sable,  a  horse  rampant  Argent,  bitted  and  bridled 


IN  ENGLAND  9 

Or ;  impaling  —  Arge?it,  the  Cabell  Rebus,  viz :  A  text 
letter  K  and  a  Bell,  intertwined  with  a  Cable,  all  ^jroper. 

It  may  be  that  this  impaling  device  should  be  read. 
Azure,  a  text  letter  K  and  a  Bell  intertwined  with  a  Cable, 
Or.  The  colorings  on  the  old  glass  are  so  old  as  not  to  be 
clear. 

The  impaling  arms  on  the  I.  and  II.  shields  belong  to 
families  with  whom  the  Cabells  had  intermarried  prior  to 
1517. 

[I  will  insert  here  what  I  am  told  is  the  correct  "  Coat " 
for  the  Frome  branch  of  the  family  at  present. 

Crest  :  "An  arm  in  armour  embowed  grasping  a  sword, 
all  j^rojJerJ^ 

Arms  :  "  Sable,  a  horse  rampant  Argent,  bitted  and 
bridled  Or." 

Motto  :  "Impavide.^'l 

The  late  Rev.  H.  C.  Alexander,  D.  D.,  saw  this  window 
in  1878,  and  described  it  as  being  "  as  fine  as  anything  of 
the  sort  to  be  found  in  England."  I  at  once  tried  to 
obtain  a  photograph  of  it,  but  none  had  ever  been  taken. 
The  Vicar  and  church  wardens  were  not  willing  for  a  pho- 
tographer to  take  his  camera  within  the  church,  and  conse- 
quently no  photograph  could  be  taken  ;  but  in  February, 
1879,  the  Rev.  Charles  Herbert  Mayo  of  Sherborne  obtained 
permission  from  the  Vicar  of  Frome  (Rev.  W.  J.  E.  Ben- 
nett), and  had  these  arms  photographed  (for  the  first  time) 
for  me. 

Dr.  Alexander  wrote  in  1878 :  "  Mr.  Penny,  the  anti- 
quary of  Frome,  is  satisfied  that  the  old  Cabells  lie  buried 
under  the  chapel  floor ;  that  they  were  unquestionably,  at 
one  time,  by  all  odds  the  best  people  about  Frome  ;  that 
there  can  be  no  doubt  they  were  one  of  the  oldest  families 
in  England,"  etc. 

"  The  Grove,"  a  most  ancient  house  near  Frome,  is 
pointed  out  as  one   of  the  old  residences  of  the  Cabells. 


10  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

This  is  now  the  property  of  Lord  Cork  (of  the  same  family 
as  Robert  Boyle,  a  benefactor  of  William  and  Mary  College, 
and  Charles  Boyle,  Earl  of  Orrery,  the  friend  of  Colonel 
William  Byrd  of  Virginia),  whose  seat  is  at  Marston 
House,  near  Frome.  "  Whatcombe  "  (another  Cabell  prop- 
erty) in  1880  belonged  to  Mr.  Duckworth,  and  was 
called  the  Orchard  Leigh  Estate.  I  do  not  know  to  whom 
Caford,  Foxbourne,  and  other  old  Cabell  properties  now 
belong. 

"Richard  Cabell  of  Cayford  and  Frome  in  the  county 
of  Somerset,  gentyleman,"  was  a  man  of  considerable  means, 
as  the  various  remaining  records  of  his  buying  lands,  etc., 
from  1510  to  1528  amply  prove.  The  last  deed  Mr.  Ogil- 
vey  found  of  him  was  dated  in  1528,  about  which  time  he 
may  have  died ;  but  from  1545  to  1557  we  find  a  "  Richard 
Cabelle  of  Cayforde  and  Frome,  gentyleman,"  (either  the 
same  Richard  or  his  son)  buying,  and  leasing  to  others, 
lands  near  Frome. 

The  Parish  Register  of  Frome  commences  in  1538,  and 
on  May  2d,  1561,  it  is  recorded  that  Richard  Cabell, 
"  generosus  "  (gentleman)  was  buried  there. 

In  1562,  Richard  Cabell  was  elected  a  member  of  Parlia- 
ment for  the  borough  of  Heytesbury  in  Wiltshire,  and  sat 
in  Parliament  for  that  borough  from  January  11th,  1563, 
to  January  2d,  1567.  And  he  was  again  elected  for  the 
same  borough  to  the  next  Parliament,  which  sat  from  April 
2d  to  May  29th,  1571.  Heytesbury  is  some  twelve  miles 
from  Frome,  and  about  five  miles  from  Warminster.  From 
Frome  to  Warminster  by  the  old  London  road  was  7^  miles. 
The  present  Caford  is  about  1|  miles  from  Frome.  The 
distance  to  Buckfastleigh  in  Devonshire  is  about  100  miles. 

Many  Cabells  were  baptized,  married,  and  buried  in  the 
sixteenth  and  seventeenth  centuries  in  Frome  and  in  the 
region  round  about.  In  1655,  Walter  Cabell  was  married, 
and  in  1696  he  died,  at  Frome.  He  bore  the  name  of  the 
original  Norman  who  settled  in  the  adjoining  shire  of  Wilts 
six  hundred  years  before. 


IN  ENGLAND  H 

I  am  sure  that  William  Cabell,  the  ancestor  of  the  Vir- 
ginia Cabells,  who  (probably  born  about  1630)  went  to 
Warminster  about  1664,  and  died  there  in  1704,  was  of  the 
original  Frome  stock,  and  that  he  descended  from  the 
founder  of  the  chapel  of  St.  Nicholas  there ;  but  I  do  not 
know  certainly  whether  he  went  to  Warminster  from 
Frome,  from  one  of  the  near-by  parishes,  or  from  Buck- 
fastleigh  in  Devonshire.  Richard  Cabell,  the  first  of  Ca- 
ford,  may  have  been  the  son  of  John  Cabell,  the  founder 
of  the  chapel ;  and  the  said  Richard  may  have  been  the 
father  of  John  Cabell,  buried  at  Frome  in  1586 ;  who  may 
have  been  the  father  of  another  John  (a  benefactor  of  the 
parish),  buried  there  in  1630 ;  who  may  have  been  the 
father  of  William  Cabell,  baptized  at  Frome  in  1588,  mar- 
ried to  Sarah prior  to  1636,  and  died  in  1665  ;  and 

this  William  and  Sarah  Cabell  may  have  been  the  parents 
of  our  William  of  Warminster,  but  I  have  found  no  evi- 
dence of  it.  The  only  evidence  which  I  have  is  circum- 
stantial, and  it  points  to  the  parish  of  Buckfastleigh  as  the 
place  of  his  nativity. 

Mr.  Ogilvey  says  that  Richard  Cabell  of  Cayford,  Somer- 
set, was  the  M.  P.  for  Heytesbury,  Wilts,  in  1571 ;  that  he 
married  Susannah,  daughter  of  John  Peter  of  Buckfast- 
leigh in  the  county  of  Devon,  and  finally  settled  there. 
And  this  may  be  correct,  but  the  Heralds  Visitations  do 
not  locate  him  so  distinctly.  The  best  pedigree  of  this 
family  that  I  have  seen  was  obtained  by  the  Hon.  James 
Alston  Cabell  in  1878,  from  Mr.  William  L.  Cabell  of  Lin- 
coln's Inn,  London,  who  claimed  to  be  a  descendant.  It 
is  headed  "  Cabell  of  Brooke  in  the  Parish  of  Buckfast- 
leigh in  the  County  of  Devon,  showing  the  match  of  the 
son  and  heir  in  1655  with  Elizabeth  second,  daughter  of  the 
Rt.  Hon.  Sir  Edmond  Fowell  of  Powell's  Comb  in  the 
Parish  of  Ugborough  in  the  County  of  Devon,  Knight 
and  Baronet,  and  M.  P.  for  the  Shire."  Note  at  the  end : 
"  From  my  collection  towards  the  Genealogies  of  the  sev- 
eral ancient  famihes  of  the  County  of  Devon,  which  fur- 


12  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  IHN 

nished  members  of  Parliament  during  the  Period  of  the 
Civil  wars  and  Commonwealth,  and  in  which  the  Title  of 
Baronet  has  become  extinct.  .  .  .  Richard  S.  M.  Sprye.* 
London,  10th  of  Nov'r,  1835." 

This  pedigree,  with  several  corrections  and  many  addi- 
tions from  other  sources,  will  furnish  the  basis  for  the 
following  sketch  of  this  family. 

"  Richard  Cabell  of  manor  of  Brooke  in  the  Parish  of 
Buckfastleigh  in  the  County  of  Devon,  Esquire,  eldest  son 
and  heir  of  Richard  Cabell  of  Frome-Selwood  in  the  County 
of  Somerset,  Esquire,  was  born  at ;  died  at ,  Feb- 
ruary 17th,  1612  [0.  S.],  and  was  buried  in  the  sepul- 
chre of  his  family  in  the  churchyard  of  Buckfastleigh  on 
March  4th,  1612  [0.  S.].  He  married  prior  to  1581,  Su- 
sannah, daughter  of  John  Peter  of in  the  Parish  of 

Buckfastleigh  aforesaid  Esquire.     She  was  born  at ; 

died  at  Buckfastleigh  August  7th,  1597,  and  was  buried 
in  the  Cabell  sepulclu-e  there.  She  was  related  to  the  very 
celebrated  Sir  WilHam  Peter  (or  Petre),  Secretary  of  State 
under  Henry  VIII.,  Edward  VI.,  Mary  and  Elizabeth.  A 
man  of  wonderful  tact.  ^  Under  Henry  "  he  observed  his 
humour ;  "  in  Edward's  time  "  kept  the  law  ;  "  in  Mary's 
"  intended  wholly  State  affairs ;  "  and  in  Elizabeth's  was 
"  rehgious."  '  As  one  of  ^  the  visitors  '  he  acquired,  and 
had  wit  enough  to  keep,  a  great  deal  of  wealth  in  the  disso- 
lution of  the  rehgious  houses." 

Westcote,  in  his  history  of  Devonshire,  written  about 
1630-1640,  says  :  "  Buckfast,  Buckfaster,  or  Buckfastleigh, 
where  Duke  Alford  erected  a  fair  Abbey  of  White  Monks 
of  the  Cistercian  Order,  dedicating  it  to  the  Blessed  Vir- 
gin :  valued  at  the  surrender  at  £466  lis  22d,  where 
now  is  to  be  seen  the  skeleton  of  a  huge  body,  where  the 

1 "  A  captain  in  the  Indian  army,  Captain  Sprye  devoted  many  years  to 
Madras  Presidency,  and  in  1833,  dep-  collecting  material  for  a  history  of  the 
uty  judge-advocate-general  of  its  Parliamentary  families  of  his  native 
Northern  Division  ;  son  of  the  Rev.  county,  Devon.  He  married  Henrietta- 
John  Sprye,  Yicar  of  Ugborough,  in  Digby-Fowell."  —  BuRifE. 
Devon.     On  his   return    to   England 


IN  ENGLAND  13 

beholder  may  both  pity  and  wonder  to  see  the  ruins  thereof. 
Now  [1630-40]  the  possession  of  Cabell." 

Worth,  in  his  history  of  Devonshire  (1886),  says  :  "  The 
Abbey  of  Buckfast,  Buckfastleigh,  or,  as  in  '  Domesday,' 
Buckfestre,  is  a  foundation  of  great  age,  one  of  the  very 
few  relio'ious  houses  in  Devon  which  had  existence  before 

o 

the  Conquest.  The  early  history  of  Buckfast  is  lost  in 
remote  antiquity ;  but  the  monks  claimed,  in  the  reign  of 
Edward  I.,  to  hold  the  manor  of  Zele  Monachorum  by  the 
gift  of  Cnut ;  and  '  Domesday  '  shows  the  Abbey  a  flourish- 
ing institution  with  considerable  possessions.  .  .  .  Origi- 
nally, so  far  as  can  be  ascertained,  Benedictine,  Buckfast, 
became  a  daughter-house  of  Savigny,  united  to  the  Cis- 
tercian Order  in  1148.  .  .  .  The  last  abbot  was  Gabriel 
Doune  or  Downe,  who  was  appointed  in  1535,  and  sur- 
rendered in  February,  1538.  He  was  probably  '  the  author 
of  the  plan  which  resulted  in  the  capture,  imprisonment, 
and  death  of  Tyndale ; '  and  Mr.  J.  Brooking  Rowe  thinks 
that  he  was  foisted  upon  the  monks  of  Buckfast  better  to 
carry  out  the  designs  of  the  King.  .  .  .  The  remains  of 
the  Abbey,  with  the  modern  house  built  upon  the  site  and 
in  part  with  its  materials,  are  now  (1886)  once  more  the 
home  of  monks  of  the  Benedictine  order,  who  are  success- 
fully engaged  in  its  reconstruction  upon  the  ancient  lines." 

Mr.  Worth  says  that  the  Abbey  and  the  adjacent  lands 
were  at  one  time  "  the  property  of  Sir  Richard  Baker,  the 
historian."  But  should  this  not  be  Sir  Richard  Baker, 
the  uncle  of  the  historian,  and  one  of  the  executors  of 
Sir  WilHam  Peter? 

Richard  Cabell  and  Susannah  Peter,  his  wife,  had  two 
sons,  Richard  (of  whom  hereafter)  and  Samuel,  and  three 
daughters. 

Richard  Cabell,  the  eldest  son,  matriculated  at  Exeter  Col- 
lege, Oxford,  December  12,  1600,  aged  18 ;  was  a  student  of 
the  Middle  Temple  in  1604,  as  son  and  heir  of  Richard  of 
Buckfastleigh,  Devon,  gentleman.  He  succeeded  his  father 
at  his  death  in  1613 ;  was  arrested  with  other  gentlemen  by 


14  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

writ  out  of  the  Honorable  Court  of  Star  Chamber  in  1614 
(Devon's  Issues  of  the  Exchequer,  p.  171) ;  in  1618  he  held 
the  manor  of  Maynebow  in  Warnecombe,  County  Somer- 
set, and  in  the  same  year  he  bought  of  John  Caseleigh 
one  quarter  of  the  lands  that  this  John  held  in  Bowdon, 
Colleton,  Buckfastleigh,  and  Ashburton  ;  in  1620  he  gave 
in  the  pedigree  of  his  family  at  the  Herald's  Visitation  of 
Devonshire ;  in  1639  he  lent  to  Sir  Henry  Rosewell  of 
Forde  County,  Devon,  Knight,  the  sum  of  £2500,  which 
must  have  been  at  that  time  a  very  considerable  sum  of 
money.  In  the  original  deed  he  is  styled  "  Ricardus  Ca- 
bell de  Brooke."  Sir  Henry  Rosewell  was  one  of  the 
original  grantees  in  1628  of  the  company  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Bay.  From  the  "  Transactions  of  the  American  Anti- 
quarian Society,"  Vol.  III.,  pp.  xlv.,  etc.,  I  extract :  "  The 
position  of  Roswell,  as  a  man  of  wealth,  is  indicated  by  an- 
other circumstance.  In  1639,  while  Charles  I.  was  on  his 
way  to  suppress  the  rebellion  in  Scotland,  the  Privy  Coun- 
cil made  out  a  list  of  persons  '  fit  for  their  ability  to  lend 
the  King  money.'  Some  contributed ;  others  excused  them- 
selves on  the  ground  of  previous  contributions ;  others  took 
no  notice  of  the  requisition.  Among  the  latter  we  find 
the  name  of  Sir  Henry  Roswell,  of  Devonshire." 

If  Sir  Henry  did  not  borrow  the  money  from  Cabell  for 
the  King,  he  may  have  borrowed  it  for  use  in  founding 
Massachusetts. 

On  January  29,  1642  (?),  Richard  Cabell  and  his  bro- 
ther, Samuel  Cabell,  as  church  wardens,  certified  that 
"the  thirtye  nine  articles  were  publiquely  read  in  the 
Church  at  Buckfastleigh  by  the  Vicar."  "  Richard  Cabell 
of  Brooke,  Esq,  died  Augt  24th,  1655,  and  was  buried 
in  the  family  sepulchre  at  Buckfastleigh  on  Augt.  25th 
1655."  He  married  prior  to  1620,  Maria,  daughter  of 
George  Prestwood  of  Whitcombe,  in  the  parish  of  North 
Huish  in  the  county  of  Devon,  Esquire,  by  his  wife,  the 
daughter  of  Sir  Nicholas  Martyn,  Knight  of  Oxton,  in 
that  shire,  M.  P.  for  the  county  of  Devon,  in  the  long  Par- 


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liament,  in  whose  daughter's  house  [Mrs.  George  Prest- 
wood's?],  in  WatHn  Street,  London,  the  five  members  were 
concealed  when  King  Charles  followed  them  into  the  city. 
Sir  Nicholas  Martyn  was  knighted  in  1625,  and  was  sheriff 
of  Devon  in  1640. 

Richard  Cabell  of  Brooke,  Esq.,  and  Maria  Prestwood, 
his  wife,  had  issue  two  daughters  and  five  sons, 
i.  Richard,  eldest  son  and  heir,  of  lohom  hereafter. 
ii.  Samuel,  2d  son,  baptized  at  Buckfastleigh,  May  4,  1623. 
iii.  George,  3d  son,  baptized  at  Buckfastleigh,  September 

15,  1628 ;  buried  there  March  8,  1631. 
iv.  William,  4th  son,  baptized  at   Buckfastleigh,  January 
4, 1630  [0.  S.].    [Whom  I  believe  to  be  the  ancestor 
of  Dr.  William  Cabell  of  Virginia.] 
V.  John,  5th  son,  baptized   at   Buckfastleigh,  December 
27,  1636. 

Richard  Cabell,  the  eldest  son  and  heir,  matriculated  at 
BaUiol  College,  Oxford,  November  15,  1639,  aged  19; 
son  of  Richard  of  Buckfastleig-h,  Devon,  Armio-er.  He 
was  of  the  Middle  Temple,  1649 ;  was  sheriff  of  Devon- 
shire (various  authorities  give  the  various  dates,  1658, 
1664,  and  1670).  I  do  not  know  which  is  the  correct 
date.  He  may  have  been  sheriff  more  than  once.  I  have 
an  original  receipt,  dated  December  28,  1669,  showing 
that  he  paid  George  Reynell  of  Malston  in  the  county  of 
Devon,  Esq.,  £104,  on  that  day.  In  1672,  he  gave  £20 
towards  constructing  the  pile  of  buildings  between  the 
pubHc  gate  and  the  chapel  of  Exeter  College  at  Oxford. 
He  was  living  in  1675.  (See  Lyson's  Devonshire,  vol.  vi. 
"  Cabell  of  Buckfastleigh.  About  six  descents ;  not  ex- 
tinct in  1675.  Arms :  Sable,  a  Horse  upright.  Argent : 
bridled  Or.")  He  died  prior  to  1693.  He  married  in  Janu- 
ary, 165y,  Elizabeth,  2d  daughter  of  the  Rt.  Hon.  Sir  Ed- 
mond  Fowell  of  Fowell's  Comb,  in  the  parish  of  Ug- 
borough  in  the  county  of  Devon,  Knight  and  Baronet,  and 
M.  P.  for  the  Shire,  by  Margaret,  his  wife,  sister  of  John, 


16  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

the  first  Lord  Paulett  of  Hinton  St.'  George  in  the  county 
of  Somerset. 

Elizabeth  Fowell  was  born  at  Fowell's  Comb ;  bap- 
tized at  Ugborough,  September  6,  1622.  The  purpose 
of  marriage  between  herself  and  Richard  Cabell  was  pub- 
lished in  the  parish  church  of  Ugborough  on  the  lith, 
21st,  and  28th  days  of  October,  1655,  without  exception, 
and  they  were  married  by  a  Justice  on  January  2,  and  by 

the  Vicar  on  January  7  following ;  she  died ,  and  was 

buried  in  linen  September  17,  1686,  at  Buckfastleigh. 

Her  father.  Sir  Edmond  Fowell,  of  a  very  ancient  Anglo- 
Saxon  family,  was  born  at  Fowell's  Comb  in  1593  ;  knighted 
at  the  Palace  of  Greenwich  by  James  I.,  November  3, 
1619 ;  elected  M.  P.  for  Ashburton  in  the  long  ParHa- 
ment,  and  for  the  county  of  Devon  in  1656.  He  was 
also  one  of  the  Parliamentary  committee  and  deputy  lieu- 
tenants of  that  shire,  and  was  president  of  the  commit- 
tee for  sequestration.  He  was  created  a  Baronet  April  30, 
1661.  He  died  in  October,  1674,  aged  eighty-one.  (See 
Burke's  Extinct  Baronetcies.)  His  wife,  Margaret  Paulett, 
was  a  sister  to  Capt.  Thomas  Paulett  of  Virginia  (see  The 
Genesis  of  the  United  States,  p.  962),  and  first  cousin  to 
Francis  Lord  Norreys  of  the  Virginia  Company  of  London. 

Richard  Cabell  of  Brooke,  Esq.,  and  Elizabeth  Fowell, 
his  wife,  had  at  least  two  sons  (Richard  and  George),  both 
of  whom  died  without  issue ;  and  their  daughter,  Elizabeth, 
became  the  sole  heir  to  their  property. 

Elizabeth    Cabell,  the  eldest    child  and   final   heir,  was 

born  at ,  November  12,  1656,  and  baptized  at  Buck- 

fastleigh,  December  9,  1656.  There  is  a  long  account  of 
some  of  her  troubles  in  the  "Account  of  the  house  of 
D'Oyly,  by  WiUiam  D'Oyly  Bailey,  London,  1815."  Sir 
John  D'Oyly,  the  first  baronet,  by  Margaret,  his  wife, 
daughter  of  Sir  Richard  Cholmley  of  Whitby  Abbey,  in 
Yorkshire,  had  issue  twelve  children.  About  1692,  he  was 
in  quest  of  a  wealthy  heiress  for  his  eldest  son,  Cholm- 
[onde]ley  D'Oyly  of  Cheslehampton,  Oxfordshire,  to  replen- 


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ish  the  empty  coffers  of  the  family.  "  Soon  after,  Sir  John 
D'Oyly  met  with  a  wealthy  heiress  for  his  son,  viz :  Eliza- 
beth, only  child  of  Richard  Cabell,  Esq.,  of  Brooke  County 
Devon,  heiress  to  him,  and  eventually  also  to  her  uncle, 
Samuel  Cabell,  Esq.,  of  South  Petterton,  Somersetshire. 
The  lady  was  an  heiress  of  landed  property  to  the  amount 
of  £20,000,  besides  a  considerable  personal  estate,  and  the 
intrigues  by  which  her  marriage  with  Cholmley  D'Oyly 
was  brought  about,  could  scarcely  be  exceeded  in  skill  and 
contrivance  by  the  imagination  of  the  novelists  of  the  pre- 
sent day."  They  were  married  in  August,  1693,  and 
Cholmley  D'Oyly  bound  himself  to  pay  to  his  father  the 
sum  of  £10,000  out  of  his  wife's  estate.  But  the  worst  of 
it  was,  "  this  gay  young  man "  had  previously  (in  May, 
1692)  privately  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  Rev.  An- 
drew Needham  of  Beverston,  Gloucestershire ;  which  mar- 
riage "  was  preserved  a  profound  secret  'till  Cholmley 
D'Oyly's  death."  In  the  language  of  Mr.  Bailey,  "both 
wives  were  brino-ing'  him  children  at  the  same  time."  He 
had  two  sons  by  Elizabeth  Cabell,  both  of  whom  pre- 
deceased him.     The  eldest  was  named  Cabell  D'Oyly. 

''  Cholmley  D'Oyly  died  about  March  19,  {f^,  much  in 
debt  and  having  two  wives.  It  may  be  supposed  a  pretty 
tumult  ensued.  Old  Needham  immediately  went  to  his 
widow,  Elizabeth,  and  divulged  her  husband's  marriage 
with  his  daughter  Margaret,  who  then  put  in  claims  for  a 
dower."  Elizabeth  immediately  possessed  herself  of  all 
his  property  she  was  able,  and  then  commenced  chancery 
proceedings  to  upset  the  settlements  made  on  her  mar- 
riage. About  1701,  she  married  secondly  Richard  Fownes, 
Jr.,  Esq.,  of  Stapleton,  County  Dorset  (see  Burke's  Com- 
moners, Vol.  I.),  and  "with  this  gentleman  she  engaged 
in  all  her  proceedings  against  the  D'Oylys."  But  it  is 
needless  to  wade  throug^h  the  details  of  these  disOTaceful 
proceedings.  The  Fownes  were  at  last  completely  beaten ; 
firstly,  by  a  decree  of  dismission  in  the  Court  of  Chancery, 
March  1,  1703,  from  which  they  appealed  in  November, 


18  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

1704,  to  the  House  of  Lords  ;  and,  secondly,  by  a  dismis- 
sion of  their  petition  and  appeal  by  the  Lords  in  January, 

1705,  thus  ending  the  contest  in  favor  of  the  D'Oylys. 
The  Fownes  had  to  pay  the  £10,000  to  Sir  John  D'Oyly, 
as  well  as  the  heavy  costs  of  the  long  suit. 

In  1715,  Richard  Fownes,  Esq.,  and  Elizabeth  (Cabell), 
his  wife,  sold  property  in  Frome-Selwood  to  George  Hooper 
and  others,  and  on  September  20,  1721,  William  (the 
Virginia  emigrant)  and  his  brother,  Joseph  Cabell,  by 
indenture  relinquished  any  claims  which  they  might  have 
on  this  property.  This  indenture  is  not  now  to  be  found 
preserved  in  full  in  the  papers  of  Dr.  William  Cabell,  the 
emigrant ;  but  it  is  referred  to  in  an  indenture  of  July 
20,  1731,  which  has  been  jDreserved.  It  shows  a  relation- 
ship to  the  Cabells  of  Buckfastleigh,  and  it  shows  that  he 
was  still  in  England  (had  not  settled  in  Virginia)  in  Sep- 
tember, 1721.  It  may  be  that  he  was  then  making  his 
arrangements  to  emigrate. 

I  do  not  know  when  Elizabeth  Cabell  and  Richard 
Fownes,  her  husband,  died  ;  but  in  1739  and  1744,  their 
son,  Thomas  Fownes,  was  selling  off  the  old  Cabell  estates 
— "  for  payment  of  his  and  his  father's  debts "  —  near 
Frome  and  Warminster.  And  in  1758,  he  sold  the  seats  of 
the  family,  "The  Manor  of  Brooke  Mainbow,  with  Buck- 
fastleigh  and  Button,"  to  Sir  Thomas  Clarke,  Master  of  the 
Rolls,  who  gave  it  to  the  Earl  of  Macclesfield. 

Samuel  Cabell,  the  2d  son  of  Richard  and  Maria  Prest- 
wood  Cabell  of  Buckfastleigh,  died  at  South  Petterton  in 
Somersetshire,  in  April,  1699,  without  issue.  He  owned 
lands  in  Devon,  Somerset,  and  Wilts,  some  of  which  were 
in  the  parishes  of  Frome  and  Warminster.  One  of  his 
heirs,  his  nephew,  Samuel  Wotton,  Esq.,  of  Englebourne, 
Devon,  married  a  daughter  of  Sir  John  D'Oyly,  who  seems 
to  have  had  a  special  eye  on  the  old  Cabell  estates. 

William  Cabell,  the  4th  son,  and  John  Cabell,  the  5th 
son  of  Richard  and  Maria  Prestwood  Cabell  of  Buckfast- 
leigh, have  not  been  located  with  certainty  by  me  j  but,  as 


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I  have  said,  I  believe  that  the  4th  son  was  the  William  Ca- 
bell who  settled  at  or  near  Warminster  about  1664.  Not 
only  because  the  Buckfastleigh  Cabells  owned  land  in  War- 
minster parish,  and  Dr.  William  Cabell  was  in  some  way 
related  to  Mrs.  Richard  Fownes;  but,  also,  because  the 
late  Benjamin  Bond  Cabbell  (1781-1874)  of  Cromer  Hall, 
Norfolk  (F.  R.  S.,  J.  P.,  M.  P.,  etc.),  a  man  well  versed  in 
his  own  genealogy,  not  only  claimed  descent  from  Buck- 
fastleigh (see  Burke's  Landed  Gentry),  but,  also,  that  the 
emigrant  to  America  was  of  the  same  family  as  his.  Ac- 
cording to  one  account,  he  said  that  the  emigrant  was  "  his 
grandfather's  brother;"  according  to  another,  "his  grand- 
father's cousin." 

We  find  William  Cabell,  and  Mary,  his  wife,  living  near 
Warminster,  probably  at  "  Bugley,"  in  1664.  They  were 
then  the  parents  of  seven  children.  William  Cabell  was 
buried  at  Warminster,  September  4,  1704.  A  copy  of  the 
inventory  of  his  household  chattels  (valued  at  £321),  taken 
September  29  following,  was  found  among  Dr.  William  Ca- 
bell's papers.  His  widow,  Mary  Cabell,  was  buried  at 
Warminster,  December  5,  1704.  Her  will,  dated  September 
29,  1704,  and  proved  in  the  court  of  the  Archdeacon  of 
Sarum  (Salisbury),  left  remembrances  to  all  of  her  sur- 
viving children  and  grandchildren.  Her  sons  were  :  1,  Wil- 
liam ;  2,  Anthony  ;  3,  Christo2)her ;  and,  4,  Nicholas. 

William,  the  eldest  son,  never  married.  He  died  in  De- 
cember, 1734,  and  his  sister,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Yeatman, 
administered  on  his  estate ;  she  died  in  February,  1739, 
and  on  May  23,  1739,  Dr.  Wdliam  Cabell  of  Virginia, 
then  in  England,  gave  bond  "to  administer  on  his  [Wil- 
liam's] effects,  left  unadministered  on  by  Mrs.  Elizabeth 
Yeatman." 

Anthony,  the  2d  son,  married  twice,  but  left  no  chil- 
dren. 

Christopher,  the  3d  son,  baptized  at  Warminster,  Feb- 
ruary 21,  I665,  had  a  son  John,  who,  in  1765,  made  some 
claim  to  Bugley,  near  Warminster,  England,  then  the  prop- 


20  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

erty  o£  Dr.  William  Cabell  of  Virginia  ;  but,  on  exami- 
nation, the  claim  proved  to  be  invalid.  I  have  some  reason 
to  think  that  this  John  was  Benjamin  Bond  Cabbell's 
grandfather  (he  spelt  the  name  with  two  b's,  as  the  War- 
minster Cabells  usually  did),  and  that  he  was  the  father  of 
John  Cabbell  of  Warminster,  afterwards  Mayor  of  Taunton, 
and  justice  of  the  peace  for  Somerset.  He  was  a  doctor  ; 
married  Mary  Burridge.  His  son,  William  Burridge  Cab- 
bell,  banker,  of  Glasgow,  was  the  father  of  John  Bond 
Cabbell  (1808-1878),  who  was  the  heir  to  his  cousin,  Ben- 
jamin Bond  Cabbell  of  Cromer  Hall,  whose  three  elder 
brothers,  Richard  (a  soldier),  Thomas  (a  lawyer),  and 
George  (a  doctor),  had  all  died  before  him,  without  issue. 

Nicholas,  the  4th  son,  was  baptized  at  Warminster, 
England,  May  29,  1667;  "died  July  30,  1730,  aged 
64 "  (from  mourning  ring) ;  buried  at  Warminster,  Au- 
gust 2,  1730 ;  inventory  taken  September  11,  1730,  of  his 
household  chattels,  valued  at  <£375 ;  will  dated  July  9, 
1730,  was  proved  in  the  court  of  the  Archdeacon  of  Sarum, 
October  26,  1730.  He  married  at  Frome-Selwood  (it  may 
be  in  the  Cabell  chapel  of  St.  Nicholas  there)  on  Novem- 
ber 15,  1697,  Rachel  Hooper,  daughter  of  George  Hooper 
of  Frome.  She  was  buried  at  Warminster,  October  27, 
1737,  and  the  inventory  of  her  household  chattels  was 
taken  November  11  following.  She  died  intestate,  and 
her  estate  was  administered  on  by  her  eldest  son,  William 
Cabell  of  Virginia,  who  was  then  in  England.  His  father's 
household  chattels  were  valued  at  £375,  equivalent  to 
about  ^7,000  in  present  values,  and  he  owned  a  place 
called  "  Bugley,  near  Warminster " ;  a  small  property 
called  "  Little  Colledge "  ;  certain  "  houses  and  lands  at 
Frome,"  a  small  freehold  estate  at  Road  in  the  Parish  of 
North  Bradley,  near  Frome  ;  and  other  property  which  has 
not  been  located  by  me ;  neither  have  I  any  idea  as  to  the 
value  of  it.  He  was  probably  a  dissenter  from  the  church 
of  England.  The  Rev.  Charles  Herbert  Mayo  says  :  "  Just 
at  this  time  (1690-1720)  there  were  some  separate  pages  in 


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tHe  Register  for  the  'Births  and  Baptisms  of  the  Chil- 
dren of  Dissenters  '  —  a  thing  I  have  never  noticed  in  a 
Register  before  —  and  here  I  found  the  children  of  Nicholas 
Cabell."     They  were:  — 

i.  WilHam,  b.  August  24,  1698 ;  d.  December  8  (buried 

December  12),  1698. 
ii.  William  \  b.  March  9,  1699  [i.  e.,  March  20th,  1700, 

present  style].     He  emigrated  to  Virginia. 
iii.  Joanna,  b.  February  16,  1702 ;  d.  July  2,  1728. 
iv.  Mary,  b.  December  21,  1704 ;  married  Mr.  Christopher 
Carter.     He    died    in    1771.     Dr.    Cabell    corre- 
sponded with  him. 
V.  Jose2oh'^,  b.  March  14,  170^,  of  lohom  hereafter. 
vi.  EHzabeth,  b.  July  5,  1709 ;  d.  October  12,  1709. 
vii.  Sarah,  b.  December  26,  1710 ;  buried  August  9,  1715. 
viii.  Elizabeth,  b.  January  30,  17 13 ;  d.  1741 ;  married  Mr. 
Davis  of  Wilts  or  Somerset, 
ix.  Sarah,  b.  August  6,  1715. 

John  Hooper,  Bishop  of  Gloucester,  was  born  in  Somer- 
setshire in  1495 ;  an  English  reformer  and  Protestant 
martyr,  he  was  burned  at  the  stake  in  1553.  He  left  a 
daughter,  Rachel  Hooper  ;  and  Rachel  Hooper,  who  married 
Nicholas  Cabell  in  1697,  was  probably  of  the  same  family ; 
but  I  have  made  no  effort  to  trace  back  her  ancestry.  Her 
father,  George  Hooper  the  elder,  was  living  in  or  near 
Frome  in  Somersetshire  in  1693.  Her  brother,  Hugh 
Hooper,  had  a  son,  Joseph  Hooper,  who  settled  in  Gooch- 
land County,  Virginia,  probably  near  Hooper's  Rock,  prior 
to  1729.  I  have  made  no  effort  to  trace  his  descendants. 
Her  sister,  EHzabeth  Hooper,  married  first  Mr.  Joseph 
Mayo,  and  secondly  Mr.  Styles.  Two  of  her  sons  by  her 
first  marriage,  AVilliam  and  Joseph  Mayo,  emigrated  to  Vir- 
ginia.   I  have  collected  a  great  deal  about  their  descendants. 

Mrs.  Styles  died  May  20, 1740,  when  her  nephew.  Dr. Wil- 
liam Cabell,  was  in  England,  and  he  looked  after  the  inter- 
ests of  her  sons,  William  and  Joseph  Mayo,  in  the  settlement 


22  THE   CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

of  her  estate.  Mrs.  Rachel  Cabell's  sister,  Joan  Hooper, 
married  first  Mr.  Rundell,  and  secondly  Mr.  Edward  Grant 
of  Trowbridge.  She  died  without  issue  in  February, 
1733.  She  was  a  woman  of  large  means  in  her  own  right, 
and  left  legacies  to  her  numerous  kin  and  to  divers  chari- 
ties, amounting  in  present  values  to  over  150,000,  and 
"  the  residue  of  her  estate  as  sister  Rachel  Cabell  shall 
direct."  She  left  to  her  four  nephews  in  Virginia  about 
$3,000  each.  Her  sister,  Rachel  Cabell,  was  the  adminis- 
tratrix of  her  will,  and  after  Mrs.  Cabell's  death  in  1737, 
Dr.  William  Cabell  attended  to  the  winding  up  of  that 
estate  also ;  and  papers  relative  to  all  these  estates  were 
preserved  by  him. 

He  also  preserved  two  printed  sermons  among  these 
papers,  one  a  funeral  sermon  on  his  aunt,  Susannah  Hooper, 
who  married,  about  1690,  Mr.  John  Allen  of  Frome,  and 
died  prior  to  1729.  The  title-page  and  first  leaf  being 
now  missing,  the  name  of  the  preacher  and  date  of  his 
sermon  do  not  appear.  He  spoke  of  her  in  terms  of  the 
highest  praise.  He  said :  "  Like  Saul,  she  was  the  Head 
and  Shoulders  above  the  common  level  of  Christians,"  etc. 
"  I  must  in  justice  to  the  deceased,  and  to  the  Glory  of  God 
declare ;  that  by  the  Praise  of  God  uttered  from  her  lips, 
my  Soul  hath  been  often  refreshed  ;  she  was  a  kind  and 
unwearied  monitor  to  me  in  my  youth.  .  .  .  That  I  so 
early  begun  with  God,  and  ingaged  in  the  work  I  am  now 
imployed  in,  was,  in  a  great  measure,  owing  to  her  faithful 
discharge  of  this  duty,"  etc. 

The  other,  "A  sermon  preached  at  Haresfield  in  the 
County  of  Gloucester ;  by  the  late  Reverend  Mr.  Richard 
Capell,  Vicar  of  Haresfield,"  was  printed  in  1727.  In  old 
characters  and  in  faded  ink,  there  is  written  on  this, "  Mr. 
Richard  Cabell's  sermon."  He  died  at  Haresfield  in  1712, 
aged  63.  He  was  probably  a  nephew  of  the  Rev.  Daniel 
Capel,  theologian  and  physician,  who  died  in  1679,  and  a 
grandson  to  Rev.  Richard  Capel,  w^ho  died  in  1656,  aged 
75,    a    celebrated    divine   and    physician.     His    grandson, 


IN  ENGLAND  23 

Samuel  Capel,  Esq.,  married,  about  1710,  Miss  Mayo,  the 
sole  heiress  of  "  The  Grove,  Painswick,"  County  Gloucester. 
The  Rev.  Richard  Capel  (1581-1656)  and  his  son,  Rev. 
Daniel  Capel,  are  classed  as  Puritan  divines.  They  gave  up 
their  livings  for  nonconformity  to  the  Established  Church, 
and  practiced  medicine.  The  Rev.  Richard  Capell  (1649- 
1712),  Vicar  of  Haresfield,  was  a  member  of  the  Church 
of  England ;  but  his  \4ews  seem  to  have  been  very  liberal. 
Nicholas  Cabell  may  have  been  a  follower  of  these  Capells 
or  Cabells,  and  this  fact  may  account  for  the  entering  of 
his  children  among  the  dissenters  in  the  parish  register. 
And  the  facts  that  Richard  Cabell  of  Buckfastleigh  lent 
Sir  Henry  Roswell  £2,500  in  1639,  and  that  the  Puritans 
spared  the  arms  of  the  family  in  the  window  of  the  chapel 
at  Frome  in  1649-1659,  go  to  show  that  the  Cabells  may 
have  been  regarded  as  what  was  then  considered  liberal  in 
their  views.  At  the  same  time  it  must  be  remembered 
that  Richard  Cabell  of  Buckfastleigh  was  a  church  warden 
of  the  Church  of  England,  and  that  Nicholas  Cabell  of 
Bugley  evidently  became  a  member  of  that  church  before 
his  death.  His  kin,  the  Hoopers  and  the  Mayos,  were  also 
of  that  church.  William  Mayo,  the  elder  brother  of 
Joseph  Mayo,  the  first  husband  of  Dr.  William  Cabell's 
aunt,  Elizabeth  Hooper,  was  M.  A.  of  New  College,  Ox- 
ford, and  Vicar  of  Romsey,  Hants,  and  his  uncle,  Joseph 
Mayo,  who  matriculated  at  Oxford,  May  31,  1655,  was  also 
a  minister  of  the  Church  of  England. 

A  BRIEF  ACCOUNT  OF  DR.i  WM.  CABELL'S  YOUNGER  BROTHER, 
JOSEPH  \  AND  HIS  DESCENDANTS  IN  ENGLAND. 

Joseph^  Cabell  of  Warminster,  England,  m.  (1st)  9th 
Novr,  1730,  Miss  Prudence  Colton,  and  had  by  her  2  daus, 
both  of  whom  married.     She  d.  22.  Dec,  1737. 

Joseph  1  CabeU,m.  (2nd)  3rd  July,  1738,  Miss  Isabella 
Harris.     She  died  4.  Augt,  1740,  s.  p. 

Joseph  ^  Cabell,  m.  (3rd)  Miss  Anne (date  of  m.  and 


24  THE   CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

surname  of  wife  not  known  to  me).  She  d.  in  Jan'y,  1777. 
He  d.  10.  July,  1762,  leaving  by  his  last  wife  2  sons  and  2 
daus.  (1)  William  2  and  (2)  Joseph,  Elizabeth  and  Mary. 
I  know  nothing  of  the  daughters.  Of  the  sons,  (2)  Joseph 
had  a  correspondence  with  Col.  William  Cabell  of  Union 
Hill  after  the  Revolution,  with  reference  to  "  the  estate  at 
Bugley  which  your  father  left  in  the  hands  of  several  Trus- 
tees, all  of  whom  are  now  dead,"  etc.  He  was  empowered 
to  wind  up  the  estate  for  the  American  heirs.  They  wished 
him  to  buy  it  himself,  "  because  it  had  been  so  long  in  the 
family ; "  but  he  sold  it  to  others.  In  1805,  himself  and 
wife  were  living  near  Bradford  in  Wiltshire,  England.  He 
was  b.  11.  June,  1753,  and  d.  17.  Nov.,  1827.  I  do  not 
know  that  he  left  descendants.  (1)  William^  Cabell,  his 
elder  brother,  was  b.  21.  March,  174^,  in  the  parish  of 
North  Bradley,  Wiltshire  ;  went  to  London  in  1760  and 
entered  a  school  at  Black-heath.  On  reaching  manhood, 
he  went  into  the  mercantile  business,  but  failed,  and  about 
1771  became  a  clerk  at  the  East  India  House.  "The 
various  attempts  which  had  been  made  to  bring  the  East 
Indian  j)ossessions  under  the  more  immediate  management 
of  the  State,  after  greatly  agitating  the  Public  mind,  and 
occasioning  a  total  change  of  ministry,  at  length  terminated 
in  the  institution  [Sept.  3rd,  1784]  of  a  Board  of  Com- 
missioners for  the  affairs  of  India.  This  Board  consisted 
of  the  first  officers  of  the  State ;  but  the  most  active  mem- 
ber was  the  Right  Hon'ble  Henry  Dundas."  Mr.  Cabell, 
on  account  of  his  especial  competency,  was  selected  as  clerk 
to  this  new  commission,  in  September,  1784,  and  "  was 
continually  about  Mr.  Dundas,  who  always  employed  him  in 
the  most  confidential  manner."  On  the  death  of  Mr.  Beau- 
foy,  the  secretary,  in  1794,  Mr.  Cabell  was  appointed  chief 
clerk  ;  and  in  January,  1797,  he  succeeded  Mr.  Bradley  as 
assistant  secretary,  in  which  station  he  continued  until  his 
death,  May  23,  1800.  "  Mr.  Cabell  had  a  memory  which 
retained  almost  everything,  and  it  was  so  well  stored  with 
whatever  related  to  Indian  affairs  that  a  leading  member  of 


IN  ENGLAND  25 

the  Board  denominated  him  "  The  Walldng  Index  to  the 
Board  of  Control."  A  memoir  of  him  was  published  in 
"  The  European  Magazine  and  London  Review  "  for  Sep- 
tember, 1800,  with  a  portrait  engraved  from  a  miniature  by 
Mr.  Matthews. 

Henry  Dundas,  under  whom  Mr.  Cabell  served  for  so 
long,  made  his  first  speech  in  the  House  of  Commons  on 
February  20,  1775,  and  it  was  in  opposition  to  "  Lord 
North's  propositions  for  conciliating  the  American  colo- 
nists." He  was  created  Viscount  Melville  in  1802,  and 
died  in  1811. 

(1)  William  2  Cabell  (1746-1800),  m.  (1st)  Augt  22nd, 
1768,  Elizabeth  Watts ;  had  three  children  by  her,  who 
died  young.     She  d.  Aug.  24,  1773. 

(1)  WiUiam^  Cabell,  m.  (2nd)  Sept.  22nd,  1774,  Martha 
Scutt  (b.  Sept.  11,  1748;  d.  June  19,  1810),  sister  of 
Thomas  Scutt  of  Brighton,  Esq.,  by  whom  he  had  thirteen 
children,  but  only  four  lived  to  marry. 

vii.  Mary  Turner  ^  Cabell  (b.  15  Mar.,  1779;  d.  24 
Jan'y,  1821),  m.  19  May,  1813,  Mr.  George  Mor- 
rison. 

3.  xiii.  William  ^  Cabell. 

4.  xiv.  Thomas  Scutt  ^  Cabell. 

xvi.  Robert  Davis  ^  Cabell,  b.  17  Jan'y,  1791;  d.  31 
Jan'y,  1817,  at  Calcutta,  India,  and  was  buried 
there.  He  m.  16  Ap'l,  1814,  EUzabeth  Jones 
(she  d.  26  Nov.,  1839),  and  had  1  child,  Eliza- 
beth'^ Cabell,  b.  at  Calcutta,  31  Mar.,  1816 ;  d.  at 
sea,  24  Feb'y,  1818. 

3.  William  ^  Cabell,  born  30  Dec,  1784  ;  was  appointed 
a  clerk  at  the  India  Office  before  his  father's  death.  He 
is  frequently  favorably  mentioned  in  the  minutes  of  the 
Board  of  Commissioners,  and  in  Lord  EUenborough's  Diary. 
He  had  charge  for  ten  years  of  the  Military  Department ; 
wa^afterwards  appointed  to  the  Secret  and  Political  De- 
partment; and  then  became  assistant  secretary.     In  1841 


26  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

his  salary  was  £1,200  a  year,  and  he  received  frequent 
"  gratuities "  for  special  services.  His  health  became  im- 
paired abotit  tliis  time,  and  after  a  continuous  service  of 
over  41  years,  he  was  retired  on  an  annuity  of  £1,000. 
He  died  May  29,  1853. 

He  was  married  on  Feb'y  4th,  1826,  to  Elizabeth  Savage 
(b.  18th  April,  1808)  at  Christ  Church,  Blackfriars  Road, 
Surrey,  by  the  Rev.  Rowland  Hill.  She  was  the  only 
daughter  of  William  Henry  Savage  and  Mary  Ann  Nedriff. 
She  married  secondly  Alfred  Longsdon,  Herr  Krupp's  Lon- 
don agent ;  he  died  Nov'r  27th,  1893 ;  she  died  Feb'y 
22d,  1892.     Her  children  by  (3)  William  ^  Cabell  were :  — 

5.  i.  William  ^Cabell. 

6.  ii.  Elizabeth*  Cabell. 

iii.  Martha*  Cabell,  b.  15  Nov,  1832  ;  d.  18  July,  1834. 
iv.  Mary  Ann  *  Cabell,  b.  5  March,  1834. 

7.  V.  Ellen*  Cabell. 

8.  vi.  Robert  George*  Cabell. 

vii.  Louisa*  Cabell,  b.  2  Nov.,  1838. 
viii.  Ada*  Cabell,  b.  24  Sept.,  1841 ;  d.  4  June,  1843. 
ix.  Thomas  Scutt*  Cabell,  b.  22  Nov.,  1843. 

4.  Thomas  Scutt  ^  Cabell,  b.  13  Feb'y,  1787;  was 
accountant  general  to  the  late  East  India  Company,  Leaden- 
hall  Street;  he  died  6th  Oct.,  1847.  He  m.  8  Nov,  1825, 
at  Parish  Church,  Clapham,  Surrey,  Anna  Lloyd,  daughter 
of  Thomas  Gore  Lloyd.  She  was  born  28  July,  1800  ; 
died  11  Jan'y,  1860,  and  was  buried  at  Hasting's  Cemetery. 
Their  issue  were  :  — 

i.  A  male*  child,  stillborn,  11  May,  1827. 
9.    ii.  Wm.  Lloyd*  Cabell. 

iii.  Thos.  Scutt*  Cabell,  b.  18  Jan'y,  1830;  d.  15  Ap'l, 
1842. 
10.  iv.  Anna*  Cabell. 

5.  William*  Cabell,  born  6  Oct.,  1831;  a  retired  Lt.- 
Colonel  of   the  Bengal  Staff  Corps;  m.  8th  Augt,  1867, 


IN  ENGLAND  27 

at  Parish  Church,  Fremington,  N.  Devon,  Adelaide  Lloyd 
(b.  23  Jan'y,  1834),  daughter  of  Rev'd  Mr.  Lloyd,  Rector 
of  Tustow,  N.  Devon.     Their  children  are  :  — 
i.  Adelaide  W.  H.^  Cabell,  b.  23  Augt,  1868,  at  Freming- 
ton, N.  Devon, 
ii.  Elizabeth  Savage^  CabeU,  b.  6  Ap'l,  1872,  at  Bukloh, 

Dalhousie,  Punjaub,  East  India, 
iii.  Emily  Lloyd  ^  Cabell,  b.  31  Mar.,  1874,  at  Fort  Michui, 

Punjaub,  East  India, 
iv.  Wm.  Forster   Lloyd  ^   Cabell,  b.    1st   Nov.,    1875,   at 
Northam,  N.  Devon. 

6.  EKzabeth  ^  (twin  sister  to  Martha  *)  Cabell,  b.  15  Nov., 
1832 ;  m.  27  Sept.,  1854,  F.  A.  Sheppard,  Civil  Engineer, 
widower,  of  46  Angell  Road,  Brixton,  son  of  C.  Sheppard 
and  Eleanor  Hammond  of  Horsham,  Sussex.  He  was  b.  21 
Dec,  1819,  and  d.  18  Augt,  1884.     Issue :  — 

i.  Walter  Cabell  ^  Sheppard,  b.  19  June,  1855,  at  Suther- 
land Street,  Walworth, 
ii.  Herbert^  Sheppard,  b.  22  July,  1856  (at  same  place 
as  above) ;  m.  16  Jan'y,  1889,  Maude  Sangster 
(b.  20  Jan'y,  1867). 
i.  Muriel^  Sheppard,  b.  22  Mar.,  1890. 
iii.  Percy  Augustus  ^  Sheppard,  b.  9  Nov.,  1857,  at  Suther- 
land Street,  Walworth. 
iv.  Bessie^  Sheppard,  b.  3  Mar.,  1861,  at  Cape  of  Good 

Hope ;  d.  10  July,  1861. 
V.  Rosa  ^    Sheppard,   b.    25    Feby,  1862,    at    Capetown ; 
m.  27  Augt,  1892,  T.  Abercrombie  Welton. 
i.  Norman  Abercrombie  ^  Welton,  b.  17  Dec,  1893. 
vi.  Eleanor  ^  S.,  b.  16  Sept.,  1865,  at  Capetown ;  d.  29 

Nov.,  1867. 
vii.  Arthur  H."  S.,  b.  13  Oct.,  1867,  at  HoUand   Street, 

Clapham  Road ;  d.  Feby,  1869. 
viii.  Elizabeth  CabelP  S.,  b.  15  Nov.,  1874,  at   Holland 
Street,  Clapham  Road. 


28  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

7.  EUen^  Cabell,  b.  4  July,  1835;  m.  23  June,  1858, 
J.  Tliugar  Jerrard,  bachelor.  Artist  (b.  30  Jan'y,  1836),  of 
27  Gresham  Road,  Brixton.  Issue  all  born  on  Surrey  side 
of  London,  except  the  4th  (iv.),  who  was  born  at  Ramsgate, 
Kent. 

i.  James  CabelP  Jerrard,  b.  10  June,  1859;  m.  2  Jan'y, 
1889,  Edith  Bachelor  (b.  28  Oct.,  1859). 
i.  a  dau..  Garnet  Longsdon®  Jerrard,  b.  13  May, 

1892. 
ii.  a  son,  Alfred  Clive  ^  Jerrard,  b.  8  June,  1893. 
ii.  Ellen   Florence^  Jerrard,   b.    15   July,   1860;    d.    23 

Augt,  1861 ;  bur'd  at  Margate, 
iii.  Ellen  Ada^  Jerrard,  b.  19  Sept.,  1861;  m.  11  Mar., 
1882,  Alfred  Towry  Piper, 
i.   Winnif red  Longsdon  ^  Piper,  b.  11  Nov.,  1882. 
ii.  Hilda  ^  Piper,  b.  17  Augt,  1884. 
iii.  MabeF  Piper,  b.  9  Mar.,  1886. 
iv.  Stephen  Harvey^  Piper,  b.  21  Oct.,  1887. 
V.  Reginald^  Piper,  b.  14  Feb'y,  1891. 
iv.  Wm.  H.  CabelP  Jerrard,  b.  3  Sept.,  1862;  d.  in  Wel- 
lington, New  Zealand,  6  April,  1892. 
V.  Ellen  Elizabeth^  Jerrard,  b.  26  Sept.,  1863. 
vi.  Alfred  Cabell^  Jerrard,  b.  25  Nov.,  1865;  m.  in  Syd- 
ney, S.   Australia,   about   July,   1891,  to    Nellie 
Negus.     She  died  about  June,  1893. 
vii.  Ellen  Louisa  ^  Jerrard,  b.  8  Jan'y  1867. 
viii.  Fred.  Paul  CabelP  Jerrard,  b.  19  Feb'y,  1868. 
ix.  Ellen  Julia  ^  Jerrard,  b.  10  Mar.,  1869. 
X.  Robert  CabelP  Jerrard,  b.  30  April,  1870. 
xi.  Thomas    CabelP  Jerrard,    b.  26  April,   1871;    d.   17 

May,  1871. 
xii.  Ellen  Jessie  Savage  ^  Jerrard,  b.  18  April,  1873. 
xiii.  Ellen  Eva  ^  Jerrard,  b.  9  April,  1874. 
xiv.  Ellen  May^  Jerrard,  b.  14  Feb'y,  1879. 

8.  Robert  George*  Cabell  of  5  Camberwell  New  Road, 
London,  S.  E.,  was  born  22  July,  1837,  and  died  30  Augt, 


IN  ENGLAND  29 

1887.     He  m.  28  July,  1858,  Elizabeth  Fanny  Walbancke 
(b.  16  Sept.,  1838 ;  d.  9th  Augt,  1868).     Issue  all  born  on 
Surrey  side  of  London, 
i.  Fanny  Ada^   Cabell,  b.  7  Nov.,   1859;   m.  8  Sept., 
1888,  Alan  ClifPord  Fogden  (b.  24  Dec,  1859). 
i.  Fanny  MabeP  Fogden,  b.  31  July,  1890. 
ii.  Ada  Constance  ^  Fogden,  b.  11  SejDt.,  1892. 
ii.  Annie  Elizabeth  ^  Cabell,  b.  24  Dee.,  1860 ;  m.  5  June, 
1886,  John  Tombleson.     He  d.  18  Apl,  1893. 
i.  Evelyn  Mary  ^  Tombleson,  b.  10  June,  1887. 
ii.  Harold  CabelP  Tombleson,  b.  11  Feby,  1889. 
iii.  Bertram   Rodolph  Hermann*^  Tombleson,  b.  26 

June,  1890. 
iv.  Marjorie    Ehzabeth^   Tombleson,    b.    27    Feby, 
1893. 
iii.  Edith  ^  CabeU,  b.  20  April,  1862;  m.  1st  Dec.,  1883, 
Edward  Rudolph  Warrens. 
i.  Gladys  Theresa '^  Warrens,  b.  6  Oct.,  1884. 
ii.  Edward  Robert  Cabell  "^  Warrens,  b.  16  Oct.,  1886. 
iii.  Dorothy  Edith '^  Warrens,  b.  25  July,  1888. 
iv.  Louisa  Ellen  ^  Cabell,  b.  27  June,  1863 ;  m.  Douglas 
Walter  Money, 
i.  Doris  Aurelia  ^  Money,  b.  20  Mar.,  1891. 
V.  Robert  William^  CabeU,  b.  3  April,   1865;    d.   Mar., 

1866. 
vi.  George  Henry  ^  Cabell,  b.  6  July,  1866. 
vii.  Thomas  Alfred^  Cabell,  b.  Augt,  1868  ;  d.  Sept.,  1868. 

9.  William  Lloyd*  Cabell  of  West  Hill,  Highgate,  Lon- 
don, and  6  Stone  Buildings,  Lincoln's  Inn,  was  b.  29  May, 
1828 ;  was  educated  at  home ;  graduated  at  Cambridge, 
coming  out  24th  Wrangler ;  is  now  [1881]  law  reporter  to 
the  Chancery  Bar.  He  m.  12  Sept.,  1861,  at  Parish 
Church,  Pitminster,  Fanny  Harriet  Lawson,  daughter  of 
Rev.  G.  R.  Lawson,Vicar  of  Pitminster,  Somerset.  She  d. 
22  Dec,  1890,  having  had  issue  :  — 
i.  a  female^  child,  stillborn,  28  Apl,  1870. 


30  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

ii.  Wm.  Henry  Lawson^  Cabell,  b.  20  Feb'y,  1872. 
iii.  Emma  Frances'  Cabell,  b.  27  Feb'y,  1875. 

10.  Anna^  CabeU,  b.  3  Mar.,  1832;  m.  30  Sept.,  1862, 
at  St.  Michael's  Church,  Highgate,  Middlesex,  to  the  Rev. 
Henry  Geldart,  now   [1881]   Vicar  of  Hellingsly,  Sussex. 
Issue :  — 
i.  a  child,'  stillborn,  March,  1863,  at  Hastings, 
ii.  Henry  Waller  CabeU'  Geldart,  b.  13   Feby,  1864,  at 

Hastings, 
iii.  Florence  Anna'  Geldart,  b.  July,  1865,  at  Hastings; 

d.  Augt,  1866,  at  Hellingsly. 
iv.  Ethel  Mary '  Geldart,  b.  29  June,  1867,  at  Hellingsly. 
V.  Wilfred  Charles '  Geldart,  b.  9  Sept.,  1869,  at  Hellingsly. 
vi.  Ella  Maude'  Geldart,  b.  13  Oct.,  1870,  at  Hellingsly. 


PART  n. 

THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN  IN  AMERICA. 

"  What  was  in  its  lifetime  mere  moss,  becomes  in  the  lapse  of  ages,  after  being 
buried  in  its  peat  bed,  of  some  value  as  fuel ;  it  is  capable  of  yielding  both  light  and 
heat.  And  so  even  the  most  worthless  pieces  of  the  literature  of  a  remote  period 
contain  in  them  both  instruction  and  amusement.  The  historical  student  should 
consult  such  of  these  as  time  has  spared."  Arnold. 

Before  continuing  the  history  of  the  family  of  which  I 
am  writing,  it  seems  weU  to  give  the  following  memoranda 
of  others  of  the  name  in  America. 

John  Cabell  came  to  New  England  in  1631  or  earlier ; 
living  at  Springfield,  1636  ;  had  son  John,  b.  12  Jan., 
1641,  and  soon  after  removed  to  Fairfield,  where  both  father 
and  sou  are  in  the  list  of  freemen  in  1669.  He  m.  (2dly) 
Ann,  widow  of  Roger  Betts  of  Branford.  The  son,  who 
wrote  his  name  Cable,  d.  in  1673. 

Samuel  Cabell  of  New  Haven,  1646. 

Geoiye  Cabell  of  Boston,  1695.  (See  "  Families  of  New 
England.")  Some  of  the  name  also  settled  in  Maine.  (See 
Eaton's  History  of  Thomaston,  Rockland,  etc.,  Maine, 
p.  170.) 

George  Cable  patented  200  acres  of  land  in  Milford 
Haven,  Virginia,  25  Nov.,  1653.  I  suppose  this  to  be  the 
George  Keeble  who  was  living  in  Middlesex  Co.,  Va.,  in 
1698,  who  bore  arms  somewhat  similar  to  the  Capels. 

John  Cable  patented  250  acres  of  land  in  Lancaster  Co., 
Va.,  4  Oct.,  1653,  and  received  other  patents  in  1655  and 
1664. 

Thomas  Chapell  (Capell  in  Index)  patented  904  acres 
in  Charles  City  Co.,Va.,  21  April,  1690. 


32  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

Edward  Cabell,  a  soldier  in  Capt.  Andrew  Lewis's 
Company  in  Col.  George  Washington's  regiment,  was 
wounded  in  the  Battle  of  the  Meadows,  3  July,  1754. 

Henry  Clia'ple  (Caple  in  Index)  patented  347  acres  in 
Brunswick  Co.,  Va.,  14  Feby,  1761. 

WiUiam  Cahhle,  Jr.,  patented  1703  acres  in  Brunswick 
Co.,  Va.,  in  1761.  I  think  that  this  was  Col.  William  Ca- 
bell, Sr.,  of  "  Union  Hill,"  but  I  have  no  conclusive  evi- 
dence that  it  was. 

Some  of  the  foregoing  evidently  left  descendants.  Dr. 
William  Cabell  was  not  the  ancestor  of  all  of  the  name  in 
America.  I  find  at  various  later  dates  a  good  many  of  the 
name  in  Virginia,  Kentucky,  Alabama,  North  Carohna, 
etc.,  who  evidently  do  not  trace  back  to  him.  But  he  was 
the  founder  of  the  family  of  which  I  am  writing. 

DR.  WILLIAM  1  CABELL,   THE  FOUNDER   OF    THE   FAMILY  IN 

VIRGINIA. 

With  Some  Account  of  the  Earliest  Settlement  {1726-1774)  of  the 
Uj)per  Valley  of  James  River. 

The  eminent  English  historian,  the  late  Edward  A.  Free- 
man, in  an  exhaustive  article  on  Pedigrees  and  Pedigree- 
makers,  which  appeared  in  "The  Contemporary  Review," 
and  was  reprinted  in  "  Littell's  Living  Age "  (July  14, 
1877),  shows  that  even  Sir  Bernard  Burke  was  prone  to 
begin,  or  introduce,  his  pedigrees  with  romance.  And  this 
is  also  the  case  with  many  old  Virginia  pedigrees.  In  fact, 
there  has  been  a  penchant  for  beginning  with  a  fairy-tale  a 
history,  whether  of  a  nation,  of  a  city,  or  of  a  family. 

And  thus,  as  is  so  frequently  the  case  in  old  history  and 
genealogy,  we  find  much  romance  mixed  up  with  the  begin- 
ning of  the  old  traditional  Cabell  family  history  (as  well  as 
with  the  same  of  many  of  the  kin),  and  it  is  not  always 
possible  to  separate  the  facts  from  the  fictions. 

According  to  tradition,  "  Dr.  WiUiam  Cabell,  the  common 


IN  AMERICA  33 

ancestor  of  the  Cabell  family  in  Virginia,  was  a  native  of 
the  town  of  Warminster,  England ;  but  graduated  in  the 
Royal  College  of  Medicine  and  Surgery  in  the  city  of  Lon- 
don, and  practiced  his  profession  there  during  several  years 
with  distinguished  success  and  with  great  profit.  He  then 
entered  the  British  Navy  as  a  Surgeon,  and  in  that  char- 
acter went  to  Spain  with  the  forces  commanded  by  the  Earl 
of  Peterborough,  or  Admiral  Su'  Cloudesley  Shovel,  in  the 
amphibious  Spanish  campaign  of  the  former.  But,  how- 
ever that  might  have  been,  it  is  certain  that  he  was  on 
board  of  a  British  man-of-war  when  an  ena-ag-ement  took 
place  with  a  French  ship,  which  the  British  captured,  and 
that  a  splinter,  broken  from  a  mast  of  the  vessel  by  a 
cannon  ball  from  the  enemy's  gun,  struck  him  across  his 
forehead  and  greatly  injured  one  of  his  eyes,  the  sight  of 
which  was  never  restored.  It  produced  the  singular  efPect 
of  considerably  enlarging  the  injured  eye,  and  of  disfigu- 
ring his  otherwise  handsome  and  benevolent  countenance. 

"  He  was  a  man  of  science  and  of  some  literary  preten- 
sion. There  was  an  engrraved  likeness  of  him  in  a  Masra- 
zine  published  in  London,  England,  in  which  the  enlarge- 
ment of  the  eye  was  clearly  represented. 

"  The  British  man-of-war  on  which  he  was  Surpfeon  came 
to  Norfolk,  or  Jamestown,  Va.,  and  being  detained  there 
for  a  time.  Dr.  CabeU  got  leave  of  the  commander  to  make 
an  excursion  into  the  interior  of  the  Colony.  After  visit- 
ing Williamsburg,  he  went  further  up  the  country,  and  was 
so  much  pleased  with  what  he  saw  and  heard,  that  he  deter- 
mined to  make  it  his  future  home.  He  accordingly  re- 
signed his  post,  returned  to  England,  married  a  wife,  and 
after  settling  his  affairs  there,  immigrated  to  Virginia.  This 
was  about  the  year  1724  or  1725. 

"  He  appears  to  have  made  some  stay  at  first  in  Williams- 
burg, afterwards  at  the  Falls  of  James  River  (now  known 
as  Richmond),  and  at  length  to  have  settled  temporarily  at 
Dover  in  Goochland,  where  he  became  a  land-owner." 

But  little  of  this  collated  tradition  is  traceable  farther 


34  THE   CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

back  than  his  grandchildren.  He  was  certainly  not  with 
the  Earl  of  Peterborough  in  1705,  as  he  was  then  only  five 
years  old.  It  seems  equally  certain  that  his  eye  was 
injured  and  one  side  of  his  face  disfigured  some  years  after 
his  settlement  in  Virginia,  by  a  gun  bursting  in  his  hand. 
The  enofraved  likeness  referred  to  was  not  of  him,  but  of 
his  nephew,  William  Cabell,  Esq.,  of  the  East  India  Board, 
which  appeared  in  "  The  European  Magazine  and  London 
Review  "  for  September,  1800.  I  am  familiar  with  the  ori- 
gin of  this  mistake,  and  it  was  not  an  unnatural  one  under 
the  circumstances ;  but  it  requires  some  stretch  of  the  imagi- 
nation to  see  "  the  enlargement  of  the  eye  "  in  the  engrav- 
inof.  The  tradition  that  he  was  a  sursreon  in  the  British 
Navy,  or  on  some  British  ship,  is  probably  correct,  as  it  is 
traceable  to  his  children,  and  as  he  practiced  that  profession 
from  time  to  time  after  his  settlement  in  Virginia,  and  prob- 
ably acquired  his  knowledge  of  it  before  coming  over. 
I  am  led  by  circumstances  to  think  that  the  brothers  Wil- 
liam and  Joseph  Mayo,  and  their  first  cousins.  Dr.  William 
Cabell  and  Joseph  Hooper,  came  to  Virginia  about  the  same 
time,  and  about  the  year  1723 ;  and  I  am  sure  that  Dr. 
William  Cabell  did  not  marry  until  after  his  arrival ;  but 
nearly  all  the  data  of  consequence  which  I  have  seen  rela- 
tive to  him  from  1700  to  1726  is  traditional.  The  records 
which  I  have  of  him  begin  in  1726,  and  with  them  my 
sketch  of  him  must  begin. 

HENRICO    COUNTY. 

As  his  whole  life,  from  this  date,  was  identified  with  the 
westward  growth  of  this  part  of  our  country,  it  will  be 
necessary  to  preface  my  sketch  with  an  outline  of  the  sec- 
tion prior  thereto. 

In  1634  the  Colony  of  Virginia  was  divided  into  eight 
counties  or  shires,  modeled  after  the  English  shires.  The 
•  county  or  shire  of  Henrico  then  formed  had  previously  re- 
ceived its  name  from  the  celebrated  Henry,  Prince  of  Wales, 
son  of  James  I.     It  extended  from  the  present  west  line  of 


IN   AMERICA  35 

Charles  City  County  to  the  westward,  on  both  sides  of 
James  River,  being  bounded  on  the  south  by  the  Appomat- 
tox River,  and  on  the  north  by  the  Chickahominy.  James 
River  was  the  central  or  main  artery  (so  to  speak)  of  this 
county,  which  extended  through  the  centre  or  heart  of  Vir- 
ginia. Within  its  bounds  were  eleven  whole  counties  of  the 
present  day,  and  parts  of  three  others.  The  sites  of  Rich- 
mond, Lynchburg,  Charlottesville,  etc.,  were  included. 

The  original  boundary  lines  were  sufficient  for  all  pur- 
poses until  1710,  when,  some  settlements  having  been  made 
on  the  north  side  of  James  River  beyond  the  head-waters  of 
the  Chickahominy,  it  became  a  question  whether  they  were 
in  the  then  county  of  New  Kent  (now  Hanover),  or  Hen- 
rico, and  on  the  15th  of  November  the  House  of  Burgesses 
ordered  a  westward  line  to  be  run  from  the  head  of  the 
main  branch  of  Chickahominy  Swamp,  the  said  line  to  be 
equidistant  from  James  River,  and  from  the  main  branch 
of  the  Pamunkey  River  (South  Anna),  "  which  line  shall 
be  adjudged  and  taken  to  be  the  line  dividing  the  said 
Countys." 

The  line  then  run  is,  I  suppose,  the  present  northern 
boundary  of  the  lower  half  of  the  present  county  of  Gooch- 
land. Henrico  County  and  Parish  were  in  the  same  bounds. 
In  1720  the  parish  was  divided  into  Henrico  and  St.  James 
parishes,  the  latter  covering  the  bounds  afterwards  formed 
into  Goochland  County.  In  those  days,  Church  and  State 
went  hand  in  hand ;  a  new  parish  was  apt  to  be  the  fore- 
runner of  a  new  county,  a  new  court-house  meant  a  new 
church. 

In  1726  we  find  Dr.  William  Cabell  in  St.  James  Par- 
ish, Henrico.  He  was  then  under-sheriff,  or  deputy  sheriff, 
to  Capt.  John  Redford,  high  sheriff  of  Henrico.  The 
high  sheriff,  the  shire-reeve,  was  a  very  important  official 
under  the  shire  system  of  England  and  Virginia.  The 
position  was  generally  filled  by  one  of  the  leading  elderly 
citizens,  but  the  active  duties  were  frequently  performed  in 
Virginia   by  younger    men   as  deputies,  under-sheriffs,  or 


36  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR   KIN 

second  sheriffs,  as  they  were  variously  called.  The  office 
is  of  great  antiquity  in  England.  King  Edward  I.  served 
as  high  sheriff  of  Bedford  and  Buckinghamshire.  Many 
prime  peers  of  the  land  have  graced  the  place,  and  the 
principal  gentry  in  every  shire,  of  most  ancient  extractions 
and  best  estates,  were  deputed  for  that  place.  The  duties 
were  chiefly  ministerial,  the  term  brief.  But  the  sheriff 
was,  "  by  his  office,  the  first  man  in  his  county,  and  supe- 
rior to  any  nobleman  while  he  held  office." 

The  office  of  lieutenant  of  a  county  in  Virginia  was 
similar  to  that  of  lord-heutenant  of  a  county  in  England. 
He  was  at  the  head  of  the  magistracy,  the  militia,  and  the 
yeomanry  ;  the  chief  executive  authority,  forming  the  settled 
channel  of  communication  between  the  government  and  the 
civil  and  military  authorities  of  his  county,  over  both  of 
which  he  presided  as  the  local  representative  of  the  Crown. 
The  riofht  of  the  Crown  to  issue  such  commissions  to  the 
lord-lieutenants  was  denied  by  the  Long  Parliament,  this 
question  proving  the  immediate  cause  of  the  breach  be- 
tween Charles  I.  and  his  subjects.  Their  legality  was 
reestablished  at  the  Restoration  by  a  declaratory  act. 

This  being  a  new  country,  for  cogent  reasons  the  offices 
of  clerk  and  surveyor  were  of  peculiar  importance. 

GOOCHLAND    COUNTY. 

In  1728,  the  settlements  having  extended  so  far  west- 
ward as  to  be  inconveniently  situated  for  attendance  on  the 
county  court  at  the  old  Court-House  ("  Varina "),  the 
House  of  Burgesses  determined  to  form  another  county 
from  Henrico.  Dr.  Wilham  Cabell  had  married  about  two 
years  before  this  Miss  EHzabeth  Burks,  and  they  were  then 
living  on  Licking-Hole  Creek,  in  the  upper  part  of  the 
present  Goochland  County. 

The  present  line  between  Henrico  and  Chesterfield, 
Goochland  and  Powhatan  counties  was  then  run.  All 
east  of  this  line  remained  in  Henrico,  and  all  west  of  it  was 
made  a  new  county  called  Goochland  (for  Governor  Gooch), 


IN  AMERICA  37 

It  was  bounded  on  the  south  by  the  Appomattox  River,  and 
on  the  north  by  the  present  Kne  between  Fluvanna  and 
Louisa  counties  extended  to  the  Blue  Ridge,  striking  the 
mountain  south  of  the  present  "  Brown's  Gap." 

The  first  Goochland  County  court  was  held  fZ'^l^  1728. 
The  county  records  from  that  day  to  this  are  fairly  well 
preserved,  and  they  are  now  in  charge  of  the  most  compe- 
tent and  obliging  clerks  in  Virginia.  The  first  justices 
were  Col.  Thomas  Randolph  of  Tuckahoe,  presiding ;  John 
Fleming,  Allen  Howard,  William  Mayo,  John  Woodson, 
Tarlton  Fleming,  and  Edward  Scott,  To  these  were  added 
in  1728-1729,  William  Cabell,  George  Payne,  and  James 
Holman. 

Col.  Thomas  Randolph  was  the  first  lieutenant  of  the 
county  ;  Henry  Wood,  first  clerk ;  William  Mayo,  first  sur- 
veyor ;  Daniel  Stoner,  first  sheriff,  with  Thomas  Walker 
as  sub-sheriff.  Thomas  Prosser  was  first  deputy  king's 
attorney. 

At  June  court,  1728,  it  was  decided  to  locate  the  court- 
house on  the  north  side  of  James  River,  near  Atkinson's 
Ferry,  and  William  Mayo  and  Allen  Howard,  gents,  were 
appointed  to  make  necessary  arrangements. 

September  Court,  1728.     County  Levy. 

Tobacco.    Cask. 

To  Henry  Wood,  Clerk,  1.000      80 

"   Daniel  Stoner,  Sheriff,  1.000      80 

"  Richard  Randolph,  Gent,  Burgess,  3.400 

"  John  BoUing,  Gent,  Burgess,  3,400 
"   Josias    Payne    and    John    McBride    for    counting 

1.795,286  tohacco  Plants,  1,496 
"   Wm.  Cabell  and  Norvell  Burton  for  counting  1,850,- 

906  tobacco  plants,  1,542 
"  Joseph  Bingley  and  David  Le  Seur,  do.,  449,800 

plants,  375 
"  Jacob  Michaux  and  Joel  Chandler,  do.,  1,104,663 

plants,  920 

"  Joseph  Ashlin  and  James  Nevill,  do.,  349,156  plants,  291 

The  total  crop  of  tobacco  for  the  year  1728  being  5,549,811  plants, 
and  there  were  1132  tithables. 


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38  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

At  November  court,  1728,  the  first  grand  jury  met,  and 
William  Cabell  was  a  member. 

At  October  court,  1729,  1165  tithables  were  reported  in 
the  county.  At  December  court  following,  Tarlton  Flem- 
ing and  William  Cabell  qualified  as  coroners  o£  the  county, 
a  position  requiring  medical  knowledge.  At  January  court, 
17^,  a  petition  for  a  town  at  Warwick  was  presented  to 
the  court  by  William  Mayo,  gent,  and  ordered  to  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly.  A  proposition  was  at  the  same  time  pre- 
sented for  a  town  at  or  near  the  falls  of  James  River,  on 
the  north  side  of  the  river.  This  was  the  begfinnino-  of 
Richmond,  the  natural  seaport  for  the  upper  valley  of  the 
James.  The  settlers  of  this  section  and  their  descendants 
were  the  makers  of  Richmond. 

In  1730,  Tarlton  Fleming  qualified  as  sheriff;  William 
Mayo,  as  major ;  Allen  Howard,  Henry  Wood,  and  James 
Holman,  as  captains.  Col.  Thomas  Randolj)h  died  in  this 
year,  and  Col.  John  Fleming  succeeded  him  as  county 
lieutenant  and  presiding  justice  of  the  peace. 

The  following  justices  of  the  peace  were  added  to  the 
commission  from  time  to  time  during  1730-1714:.  In 
1730,  Daniel  Stoner  and  Anthony  Huggatt ;  1731,  George 
Raine ;  1733,  James  Skelton ;  1734,  John  Netherland, 
Isham  Randolph,  and  George  Carrington ;  1735,  Peter  Jef- 
ferson, Thomas  Turpin,  William  Randolph  (of  Turkey 
Island,  who  d.  1742  ?),  Dudley  Digges,  and  Thomas  Dick- 
ins  ;  1737,  Arthur  Hopkins ;  1741,  Wade  Netherland,  Rich- 
ard Mosby,  Nicholas  Davies,  Isaac  Bates,  Josej^h  Thompson, 
Stephen  Bedford,  John  Hodnett,  Charles  Lynch,  Ben  Cocke, 
and  Wilham  Megginson  ;  1742,  James  Daniel,  William  Allen, 
and  John  Woodson,  Jr. ;  1744,  William  Randolph  (of  Tucka- 
hoe  ?),  John  Cannon,  and  John  Hunter. 

In  1732,  John  Fleming  and  Dudley  Digges  were  the 
Burgesses ;  in  1736,  Edward  Scott  and  James  Holman ; 
in  1740,  Capt.  James  Holman  and  Capt.  Isham  Randolph. 
The  sheriffs  were  John  Woodson,  1732-1734;  George 
Payne,    1734-1737;    Peter    Jefferson,    1737    and     1739; 


IN  AJVIERICA  3^ 

Robert  Payne,  1738  ;  Arthur  Hopkins,  1739-1741 ;  Thomas 
Turpin,  1741-1743  ;  James  Daniel,  1743-1744 ;  and  Isaac 
Bates,  1744. 

The  James  River  valley,  from  the  Falls  to  the  Blue  Ridge, 
belonged  to  the  Monacan  Indians,  known  to  history  as  the 
Tuscaroras,  one  of  the  Six  Nations.  In  1670,  their  head- 
quarters in  Virginia  were  near  the  Forks  of  James  River 
(now  Columbia),  and  although  they  had  been  gradually 
forced  back  by  the  colonists,  they  continued  to  frequent 
their  old  hunting-grounds  for  many  years,  and  to  hold  on 
most  tenaciously  to  the  valleys  between  the  Southwest 
Mountain  rangfe  and  the  east  side  of  the  Blue  Rido-e.  One 
of  their  last  trails  east  of  the  Blue  Mountains  crossed  the 
present  ford  of  James  River  at  Norwood  Island  (there  are 
remains  of  Indian  towns  at  this  ford,  and  on  the  Union  Hill 
estate  just  below),  and  went  along  the  valley  between  the 
Buffalo  Ridge  and  Findlay's  Mountain  (known  to  the  first 
hunters  as  good  hunting-grounds ;  to  the  first  settlers  as 
"  The  Savannahs  "  ;  and  to  us  as  "  The  Glades  of  Nelson 
County  ")  to  Rockfish  River,  and  thence  up  Rockfish  valley 
through  Rockfish  Gap  of  the  Blue  Ridge.  There  was  a 
buffalo  trail  along  the  Southwest  Mountains  to  the  waters 
of  the  Rappahannock,  and  the  buffaloes  seen  by  Capt.  Ar- 
gall  in  the  spring  of  1613  evidently  belonged  to  this  trail. 

During-  the  seventeenth  centurv  the  settlements  were  con- 
fined  to  the  tide-water  region.  In  the  first  quarter  of  the 
eighteenth  century  they  were  gradually  extended  up  James 
River  to  the  threshold  of  the  so-called  "  happy  hunting- 
gi-ounds  "  of  the  wary  savage,  and  there,  before  making  an 
advance  into  the  unbroken  forest  of  "  the  broken  lands," 
civilization  paused  for  a  time  in  its  "  Westward,  Ho ! " 
No  one,  save  the  boldest  paleface  hunter,  dared  "  to  beard  " 
the  Indian  in  his  mountain  defiles.  From  May  1,  1728,  to 
May  31,  1730  (two  years  and  one  month),  Maj.  William 
Mayo  only  made  forty-nine  surveys  (for  forty-three  persons) 
in  the  county  of  Goochland,  which  then  extended  to  the 
Blue  Ridge.  There  were  but  few,  if  any,  regular  settlers 
above  the  mouth  of  the  Rivanna  River  in  1730. 


40  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

Dr.  William  Cabell  was  the  first  Englishman  to  enter  the 
then  wild  mountain  region  west  of  the  mouth  of  Rockfish 
River  for  the  purpose  of  locating  lands  for  actual  settlement. 
This  fact  is  proven  by  sundry  evidences  in  my  possession. 
At  sundry  times  between  1730  and  1734,  he  located,  by 
chopping  out  for  entry,  all  the  low  grounds  on  both  sides 
of  James  River  from  the  present  Fish  Pond  estate  of  Col. 
Buford,  above  Howardsville  in  Nelson  County,  to  the  pre- 
sent Riverville  station,  C.  &  0.  R.  R.,  in  Amherst  County, 
a  distance  of  over  20  miles,  and  over  120  miles  above  tide- 
water as  the  river  runs.  In  one  of  his  expeditions  for 
"  chopping  out "  these  lands,  the  doctor's  party  was  sud- 
denly surrounded  by  a  large  body  of  Indians,  who  had  fol- 
lowed up  his  "chops"  through  their  woods,  and  were  much 
incensed  about  them;  but  the  doctor,  who  was  a  very 
quick-witted  man,  explained  to  the  Indians  that  they  were 
only  intended  to  enable  his  party  to  find  their  way  back, 
and  so  pacified  the  Indians  that  they  spared  the  lives  and 
scalps  of  the  English,  but  took  everything  they  had  from 
them  and  made  them  g-o  back. 

Dr.  Cabell  "  entred  for "  these  lands  on  the  books  of 
Maj.  William  Mayo,  the  surveyor  of  Goochland  (in  which 
county  the  land  then  was)  in  1733 ;  but  before  he  had 
secured  his  legal  rights  to  the  lands,  he  was  called  to  Eng- 
land on  urgent  business,  and  was  obliged  to  leave  his  affairs 
in  Virginia  in  the  hands  of  his  attorneys.  The  following 
is  a  true  copy  of  his  power  of  attorney  :  — 

"  Virginia  : 

"  I,  William  Cabell  of  the  County  of  Goochland  do  appoint 
my  loving  wife  Elizabeth  Cabbell  and  my  loving  Friends 
William  Mayo  and  George  Carrington  to  be  my  LawfuU 
Attorneys  in  Virginia  for  me  and  in  my  Name  to  my  Use 
to  receive  any  Sums  of  money  that  shall  be  owing  unto 
me,  to  prosecute  and  defend  suits  in  Law  or  Equity,  im- 
prison or  discharge  or  do  any  other  Act  or  Deed  which  I 
could  lawfully  do  were  I  present  —  ratifying  and  holding 


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firm,  all  whatsoever  my  said  Attorneys  or  either  of  them 
shall  lawfully  do  or  cause  to  be  done  in  or  about  the 
premises. 

"  Witness  my  hand  and  seal  this  27th  August,  1735. 

William  Cabbell,  Seal. 
"  Witness. 

Jos.  Scott. 

John  Brown. 

"At  a  court  held  for  Goochland  County  August  22d, 
1739.  This  Letter  of  Attorney  was  proved  by  the  Oath 
of  Joseph  Scott  to  be  the  act  and  Deed  of  William  Cabbell, 
which  was  ordered  to  be  recorded. 

"  Test.     Henry  Wood,  Clerk." 

Maj.  William  Mayo  first  surveyed  the  entries  and  after- 
wards made  a  plat  of  them,  which  still  remains,  bearing 
this  legend :  "A  Plat  of  6320  acres  of  Land  in  Gooch- 
land County,  surveyed  for  Wm.  Cabell,  gent,  Anno  Domini 
1737,  by  William  Mayo,  Surv'r."  It  included  only  "  the 
first-choice  lands,"  the  low  grounds,  on  both  sides  of  James 
River.^ 

When  this  survey  was  made  in  1737  (the  same  year  in 
which  Maj.  Mayo  laid  off  Richmond  Town),  although  it 
extended  for  over  twenty  miles  along  both  sides  of  James 
River,  there  were  no  neighbors ;  the  lines  joined  no  one 
else's  line.  I  have  examined  Maj.  Mayo  s  entry  and  survey 
books,  and  Dr.  Cabell's  were  the ^rs^  entries,  and  this  was 
the  first  survey  in  all  this  region.  Of  course  hunters  had 
previously  penetrated  it  and  had  named  some  of  the  moun- 
tains and  watercourses ;  thus,  the  creek  which  winds 
around  the   present   "  Union  Hill,"   and  the  mountain  in 

^  I  use  the  present  names,  but   in  vanna  or  South  Fork  of  James  river." 

those  clays  the  James  River/)7-o/)eronly  Brandies  of  the  same  river,  they  then 

came  up  to  the  Point  of  Fork  (Colum-  virtually  bore  the  same  name.     Riv'- 

bia),  the   Rivanna  being  then  known  anna,  i.  e.    River  Anna  ;    and   Fluv'- 

as  "  The  Rivanna  or  North  Fork  of  anna    or    Fluvius   Anna,   i.   e.    River 

James  river,"  and  the  present  upper  Anna, 
part  of  James  River,  as  "  The   Flu- 


42  THE   CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

which  its  head  springs  are,  were  then  called  "  Findlay's 
Creek  "  and  "  Findlay's  Mountain,"  for  John  Findlay,  the 
noted  hunter,  who,  it  is  said,  afterwards  piloted  first  Dr. 
Thomas  Walker,  and  then  Daniel  Boone,  to  Kentucky  ;  and 
Tye  River  bore  its  present  name,  for  Allen  Tye,  another 
noted  hunter,  who,  in  continuing  his  westward  way,  became 
one  of  the  pioneers  of  Tennessee. 

Gov.  William  Gooch  issued  a  patent  for,  or  grant  of,  4800 
acres  of  these  lands  to  William  Cabbell,  gent,  on  September 
12th  (0.  S.),  1738,  and  on  September  22d  (0.  S.),  1739,  he 
issued  a  grant  for  440  acres  more ;  a  grant  for  the  remain- 
der was  not  secured  until  after  the  doctor's  return  from 
Enirland,  of  which  hereafter.  Althoug-h  he  left  other  attor- 
neys  in  Virginia,  the  chief  responsibility  for  protecting  the 
first  English  patent  in  the  last  hunting-ground  of  the  In- 
dian east  of  the  Blue  Ridge  in  Virginia  rested  for  several 
years  on  "  his  loving  wife,  Elizabeth  Cabbell,"  a  colonial 
dame,  who,  mounted  on  her  good  steed  and  attended  by 
her  trusty  men,  rode  fearlessly  into  the  wild  woods,  when- 
ever occasion  required,  to  overlook  these  lands  —  the  plant- 
ing of  them,  and  the  preventing  of  encroachments  upon 
them.  She  paid  the  quit-rents,  taxes,  etc.,  attended  to  all 
legal  requirements  within  her  power,  and,  on  her  husband's 
return  in  1741,  turned  his  affairs  over  to  him  in  compara- 
tively good  shape. 

Before  going  on  the  voyage  to  England  with  Dr.  Cabell, 
we  will  consider  another  very  interesting  tradition,  which 
has  it  that  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Cabell  was  descended  from  an 
Indian  princess  of  the  Powhatan  tribe  (some  accounts  have 
it  "  of  the  Catawba  tribe,"  but  this  is  not  tenable),  and  that 
it  was  the  knowledge  among  the  neighboring  Indians  of 
this  descent  which  protected  her  husband  while  locating 
these  lands,  and  herself  when  she  was  managing  them  in  his 
absence.  It  was  more  probably  owing  to  her  relationship  to 
members  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  with  whom  the  Indians 
were  on  friendly  terms.  However,  the  story  is  interesting, 
and  "  the  evidences  of  its  truth  "  are  said  to  "  have  been 


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carefully  collected"  in  several  branches  of  the  Breckin- 
ridge, Floyd,  and  other  families.  I  cannot  vouch  for  it, 
but  I  will  give  it  as  I  find  it  in  the  Floyd  tradition. 

"  Opechancanough,  the  celebrated  chief  of  the  Pow- 
hatans,  who  was  brutally  murdered,  while  a  prisoner,  in 
1644,  left  a  lovely  young  daughter,  the  child  of  his  old 
age,  the  Princess  Nicketti  —  '  she  sweeps  the  dew  from  the 
flowers.'  Some  years  after  this  graceful  Indian  maiden  had 
reached  the  years  of  mature  womanhood,  a  member  [the 
name  is  not  given]  of  one  of  the  old  Cavalier  families  of 
Virginia  '  fell  in  love  with  her  and  she  with  him,'  and  the 
result  was  a  clandestine  marriage,  and  a  half-breed  Indian 
girl  who  married  about  the  year  1680  a  Welshman  (others 
say  a  native  of  Devonshire,  England,)  named  Nathaniel 
Davis,  an  Indian  trader,  and,  according  to  some  accounts, 
a  Quaker  ;  and  from  this  alliance  many  notable  people  in 
the  East  and  in  the  West  have  descended.  Their  daughter, 
Mary  Davis  (born  about  1685),  married  Samuel  Burks  of 
Hanover  (the  ancestors  of  the  Burks  family  of  Virginia), 
and  their  daughter,  Elizabeth  Burks,  married  Capt.  Wil- 
liam Cabell,  the  ancestor  of  the  Cabells ;  Martha  Davis, 
another  daughter,  married  Abraham  Venable,  the  ancestor 
of  the  Venables.  Robert  Davis,  Sr.,  a  son  (the  ancestor  of 
^  the  black  Da  vises  '  of  Kentucky,  and  from  whom  Jefferson 
Davis  descended),  had  a  daughter,  Abadiah  (or  Abigail) 
Davis,  who  married  William  Floyd,  the  ancestor  of  the 
Floyds  of  Virginia  and  of  the  West.  A  daughter,  or 
granddaughter,  of  the  Quaker,  married  Gen'l  Evan  Shelby 
of  Maryland,  the  ancestor  of  the  Shelbys  of  the  West. 
Samuel  and  Philip  Davis  of  the  Blue  Mountains  were  sons, 
and  there  may  have  been  other  sons  and  daughters. 

"  William  Floyd  left  the  eastern  shore  of  Virginia,  went 
up  the  country  as  far  as  the  present  Amherst  County,  which 
was  then  a  very  wild  region,  where  he  met  with  this  family 
of  Davis,  who  had  traded  with  the  Indians  and  had  gotten 
much  property  in  that  way.  [The  Quakers  were  much 
given  to  friendly  trading  with  the  Indians.] 


44  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

"  William  Floyd  and  his  wife's  brother,  Robert  Davis, 
Jr.,  with  their  families,  emigrated  to  Kentucky  with  the 
first  settlers,  and  finally  located  in  the  Bear-grass  region, 
near  Louisville,  where  the  kinsmen  (Floyds  and  Davises) 
had  a  fort,  called  '  Floyd's  Station.'  " 

But  it  is  not  necessary  to  follow  the  Floyd  narrative 
farther.  It  seems  well  to  say,  however,  that  I  have  seen  a 
Davis  pedigree  which  asserts  that  "  the  Indian  blood  first 
entered  the  family  through  the  marriage  of  Abby  Davis 
with  William  Floyd,  a  half  breed  Indian."  Other  Davis 
pedigrees  and  traditions  do  not  deny  the  Indian  blood, 
while  every  Floyd  with  whom  I  have  corresponded  has 
asserted  positively  that  "  it  was  through  Abby  Davis  the 
Indian  blood  came." 

The  Princess  Nicketti's  name  (it  may  be  because  the  mar- 
riage was  clandestine)  has  not  been  popular  among  her 
traditional  descendants.  The  first  Governor,  John  Floyd 
of  Virginia,  named  one  of  his  daughters  for  her.  I  know 
of  no  other  namesake;  but  2/ the  tradition  is  true,  no  more 
lovely  women  than  some  among  her  descendants  ever 
"  swept  the  dew  from  the  flowers." 

Dr.  William  Cabell's  father  (Nicholas)  died  in  England, 
August  10,  1730;  his  aunt,  Mrs.  Joan  Grant,  a  wealthy 
lady,  died  there  in  February,  1733,  without  issue,  leaving 
her  property  to  her  relatives  (including  four  nephews  in 
Virginia) ;  and  his  father's  eldest  brother,  William,  died 
without  issue  in  December,  1734.  In  all  of  these  estates 
he  was  interested  ;  but  the  death  of  his  oldest  uncle,  without 
issue,  made  it  necessary  for  him  to  go  over  in  person,  and 
as  soon  after  hearing  of  it  as  he  could  arrange  his  affairs  in 
Virginia,  he  did  do.  He  sailed  for  England  in  September, 
1735.  The  date  of  his  arrival  is  not  known  to  me.  A 
letter  from  him  to  his  wife,  written  January  30,  1737  (present 
style),  has  been  preserved,  in  which  "  he  begs  of  her  to  keep 
his  children  to  their  books,  and  tell  them  if  they  are  diligent 
that  I  will  weU  reward  them  when  I  come  home."     He  also 


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tells  his  wife  in  one  of  his  letters :  "  I  would  not  have  you 
take  my  stay  here  so  long  amiss,  or  think  it  occasioned  by 
any  want  of  respect  or  affection ;  for  I  assure  you  it  is 
occasioned  alone  by  affairs  in  which  both  our  interests  are 
involved,"  etc. 

His  mother,  Rachel  Cabell,  who  had  been  left  "  the  sole 
executrix  "  of  his  father's  will,  died  in  October,  1737,  and 
this  made  it  necessary  for  him  to  prolong  his  stay,  in  order 
to  wind  up  her  affairs.  In  February,  1739,  his  aunt,  Mrs. 
Yeatman,  died,  and  in  May  following  he  qualified  to  admin- 
ister on  her  estate.  In  May,  1740,  his  Aunt  Elizabeth 
(the  mother  of  William  and  Joseph  Mayo  of  Virginia)  died, 
and  he  looked  after  the  interest  of  the  Virginia  Mayos  in 
the  winding  up  of  her  estate. 

During  his  absence,  letters  to  him  were  addressed  to 
"  Mr.  Wm.  Cabell,  at  Warminster,  Wiltz,  Bristol:'  He 
resided  for  the  most  of  the  time  at  his  seat,  "  Bugley." 
There  is  still  preserved  a  dog's  collar  of  brass  about  1^ 
inches  wide,  bearing  the  inscription  "  Wm.  Cabell,  Bugley, 
near  Warminster,  1740." 

In  June,  1741,  he  was  at  last  able  to  return  to  Virginia ; 
he  paid  his  passage-money,  and  secured  his  berth  at  that 
time,  and  some  time  thereafter  sailed  from  the  port  of 
Bristol,  reaching  Virginia  late  in  September  or  early  in 
October,  1741,  after  an  absence  of  about  six  years. 

From  the  following  receipt  preserved  by  him,  I  infer  that 
William  Dale  was  the  captain  or  master  of  the  ship  on 
which  he  came  over :  "  Hanover  Court  House,  Novr  5th, 
1741.  Received  of  Mr.  Wm.  Cabell  the  sum  of  fifteen 
pounds,  a  balance,  in  fuU  of  all  accounts  for  freight. 
Pr  me.  Wm.  Dale." 

During  his  absence,  his  wife  had  sold  to  William  Meggin- 
son  580  acres  of  his  land  on  the  south  side  of  James 
River,  about  four  miles  above  the  mouth  of  Tye  River. 
On  October  i|,  1741,  he  executed  a  deed  conveying  this 
land  to  Megginson ;  and  this  seems  to  have  been  his  first 
legal  act  after  his  return  home. 


46  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

Although  his  wife  had  sold  some  of  his  lands,  and  had 
failed  to  obtain  grants  from  the  Governor  for  some  of  his 
entries,  she  was  able  to  turn  over  to  him,  with  a  clear  right 
and  title,  7,952  acres,  with  all  levies,  quit-rents,  clerk's  and 
sheriff's  fees  and  taxes  paid  in  full  to  September  4,  1741. 

November  13,  1741,  he  wrote  to  a  friend  in  England 
informing  him  of  his  "  safe  arrival  in  Virginia  after  a  long 
passage  of  near  one  fourth  of  a  year." 

Dr.  Cabell  now  appealed  to  the  Governor  and  Council  in 
regard  to  the  entries  made  by  him  before  he  went  to  Eng- 
land, for  which  he  had  failed  to  obtain  patents,  and  they 
issued  an  order,  "  To  caveat  Hugh  Denham's  land  and  Ben 
Mim's  [Meem's]  and  all  others  joyning  on  to  Wm,  Cabell's 
lines  on  the  Fluvanna  until  he  is  first  heard." 

He  then  prepared  a  petition  for  one  of  his  entries,  in- 
dorsed :  "  Wm.  Cabell's  petition  to  the  Councel  for  1,200 
acres  in  Goochland  County,  in  one  or  more  surveys  on  both 
sides  of  Fluvanna  River,  joining  his  Patent  of  4,800  acres 
and  to  be  included  with  the  same  in  one  patent."  Among 
other  things  he  asserts  in  this  petition  that,  "  /  tvas  the 
occasion  of  carrying  the  settlements  at  least  50  miles  to 
the  westward  when  no  other  man  would  attempt  it.  .  .  . 
In  one  of  my  attempts  to  locate  those  outlands  I  was  robbed 
by  the  Indians  of  little  less  than  £90.,  as  I  am  able  to 
prove."  His  petition  was  acknowledged  and  allowed,  as 
the  following  paper  proves  :  — 

"An  Order  of  Council  of  May  6th  1743.  —  Leave  is 
granted  Wm.  Cabell  to  take  up  1200  acres  in  Goochland 
on  both  sides  of  the  Fluvanna  River  adjoining  his  patent  for 
4800  acres,  and  to  have  an  inclusive  patent  for  the  whole. 

(Signed)     Robt.  Staunton." 

[Indorsed]     "  Ent'd  in  Auditors  Ofiice. 

Oct.  29th  1744.         John  Blair." 

I  do  not  know  who  his  lawyers  were  in  his  land  cases, 
but  the  following  attorneys  qualified  to  practice  in  Gooch- 
land, 1728  to  1744;  Thomas  Prosser,  1728;  Edward  Ben- 


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nett,  Robert  Rogers,  and  Clement  Read,  1733 ;  William 
Battersby,  1735  ;  John  Scott,  John  Tildsley,  1736  ;  William 
Waller,  1737;  WiUiam  Bellamy,  1739;  Bartelott  and 
Matthew  Anderson,  1740 ;  Dudley  Digges,  1741 ;  Michael 
Cadet  Young  and  Gideon  Marr,  1742 ;  Philip  Scudamore 
Monson,  1743,  and  John  Longdon  and  John  Wales  in 
1744. 

The  neighboring  county  of  Hanover  had  been  taken  from 
New  Kent  in  1720.  The  early  records  of  both  Hanover 
and  New  Kent  have  been  destroyed.  In  1742  the  county  . 
of  Hanover  was  divided,  and  the  uj^per  portion  was  formed 
into  a  new  county  called  Louisa,  for  the  Princess  Louisa, 
daughter  of  George  II.  The  records  of  this  county  are  "  for 
the  most  part  preserved,  but  in  a  very  dilapidated  condi- 
tion." The  first  court  was  held  on  December  }f^,  1742,  with 
the  following  justices:  Robert  Lewis  (presiding),  Christopher 
Clark,  Ambrose  Joshua  Smith,  Abraham  Venables,  Charles 
Barret,  Richard  Johnson,  Thomas  Merriwether,  Robert 
Harris,  John  Carr,  Joseph  Bickley,  Joseph  Fox,  John 
Starke,  Joseph  Shelton,  and  John  Poindexter,  Gents.  The 
upper  portion  of  this  county  was  added  to  Albemarle  in 
1761. 

Soon  after  returning  from  England,  Dr.  Cabell  removed 
from  his  place  on  "Licking-Hole  Creek"  to  his  lands  up  the 
river,  and  settled  at  the  mouth  of  Swan  Creek,  in  the  j)res- 
ent  county  of  Nelson,  where  he  had  erected  dwelling-houses, 
a  mill  (the  first  in  that  quarter),  a  warehouse  (also  the  first), 
a  depot  of  produce,  a  store,  etc.,  —  calling  the  place  War- 
minster, for  his  old  English  home  ;  from  whence  a  regular 
line  of  batteaux  was  run  to  Westham.  For  over  fifty  years 
Warminster  (now  one  of  our  dead  towns)  was  one  of  the 
most  important  points  in  our  internal  commerce.  And  so 
internal  commerce  has  naturally  received  the  especial  atten- 
tion of  the  CabeUs  from  the  first. 


48  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

ALBEMARLE    COUNTY. 

The  number  of  titliables  in  Goochland  County  in  1728 
were  1132  ;  in  1744  they  were  3512.  The  settlements  had 
now  extended  so  far  to  the  westward  that  the  formation  of 
a  new  county  and  a  new  parish  became  necessary. 

In  September,  1744,  the  Assembly  passed  an  act  for  the 
division  of  the  old  parish  of  St.  James  into  three  parishes : 
St.  James  Northam  (on  north  side),  St.  James  Southam  (on 
south  side),  and  St.  Anne  (on  both  sides  of  James  River). 
They  also  passed  an  act  for  the  division  of  the  old  county. 
The  dividing-  line  was  to  be  run  from  the  Point  of  the  Fork 
of  James  River,  N.  30°  E.  to  Louisa  County  line  (now  the 
line  between  Fluvanna  and  Goochland),  and  from  the  said 
Point  of  Fork  southward,  a  direct  course  to  Brook's  mill,  and 
from  thence  the  same  course  continued  to  the  Appomattox 
River.  All  east  of  said  line  to  remain  as  Goochland  County, 
and  all  west  of  it  to  be  the  new  county  of  Albemarle.  The 
bounds  of  the  new  parish  of  St.  Anne  were  the  same  as  the 
new  county  bounds.  Rev.  Robert  Rose,  a  native  of  Scot- 
land, was  the  first  minister  of  this  parish,  1745,  to  his  death, 
1751.  The  county  was  named  for  William  Anne  Van  Kep- 
pel,  second  earl  of  Albemarle,  and  then  governor-in-chief 
of  Virginia.  The  act  was  to  take  effect  after  December  31, 
1744.  The  first  court  was  to  meet  on  the  fourth  Thurs- 
day in  January,  1745.  It  was  the  first  regularly  organized 
county  in  the  James  River  valley,  every  part  of  wliich  was 
over  a  day's  journey  above  tide-water.  It  included  the 
whole  of  the  present  counties  of  Fluvanna,  Buckingham, 
Nelson,  and  Amherst ;  the  most  of  Albemarle  and  Appo- 
mattox, with  parts  of  Campbell,  Bedford,  and  Cumberland. 

The  first  court  of  Albemarle  County  met  Feb.^t;!?^-  The 
records  are  not  complete.  The  court  minutes  between  1748 
and  1783,  a  very  important  period,  are  missing.  The  first 
justices  were :  Joshua  Fry,  presiding ;  William  Cabell, 
Allen  Howard,  Edwin  Hickman,  Thomas  Ballow,  Peter 
Jefferson,  Joseph   Thompson,   Charles  Lynch,  and  James 


IN  AMERICA  49 

Daniel.  To  these  were  added,  in  1746  and  1747,  Samuel 
Jordan,  David  Lewis,  John  Reid,  William  Harris,  Edraond 
Gray,  John  Anthony,  Valentine  Wood,  Charles  Lewis,  Jr., 
Isaac  Bates,  and  James  Nevil.  Matthew  Jordan  and  Wil- 
ham  Megginson  were  added  soon  after,  in  1748,  I  think. 
The  first  county  lieutenant,  Joshua  Fry  ;  the  first  county 
surveyor,  Joshua  Fry ;  the  first  clerk,  William  Randolph, 
of  Tuckahoe,  who  died  in  the  fall  of  1745  and  was  suc- 
ceeded as  clerk  by  Peter  Randolph,  one  of  his  executors, 
who  held  the  place  until  1749,  with  Ben  Harris  as  his  dep- 
uty. In  1749  and  after,  John  Nicholas  was  clerk,  with 
John  Fleming  as  his  deputy.  The  first  king's  attorney  was 
Edmond  Gray;  he  was  succeeded  by  Gideon  Marr.  The 
first  practicing  lawyers  were  James  Meredith,  John  Harvie, 
Clement  Read,  and  William  Battersby.  First  sheriffs,  Jo- 
seph Thompson,  1745-1747  ;  Edwin  Hickman,  1747-1749 ; 
Charles  Lynch,  1749-1751;  James  Daniel,  1751-1753; 
Samuel  Jordan,  1753-1755 ;  John  Reid,  1755-1757  ;  John 
Hunter,  1757-1759. 

February  court,  1745,  William  Cabell,  J.  P.,  and  Pat- 
rick Napier,  securities  for  Joseph  Thompson,  Sheriff. 

May  court,  1745,  Joshua  Fry  and  William  Cabell,  Gents, 
to  purchase  weights,  scales,  and  measures  for  the  county. 

William  Cabell  one  of  the  justices  to  take  list  of  tithes 
(for  the  ensuing  year)  on  north  side  of  the  Fluvanna.  I 
have  this  list :  there  were  106  white  tithes,  117  negroes,  and 
1  Indian ;  the  names  of  the  whites  are  given. 

June  court,  1745.  Samuel  son  of  Edward  Scott,  and 
William  Allen,  to  build  the  court  house,  near  the  site  of 
the  present  Scottsville.  William  Cabell,  Charles  Lynch, 
and  others  produced  commissions  from  the  governor  as  cap- 
tains, and  took  the  usual  oaths. 

August  court,  1745.  Charles  Lynch  given  leave  to  keep 
a  ferry  from  his  land  across  the  North  River  [Rivanna]  to 
the  opposite  side.     William  Cabell  his  security. 

June  court,  1746.  William  Cabell  and  others  to  take 
the  list  of  tithes  for  the  ensuing  year  on  north  side  of  the 


50  THE   CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

river.  There  were  160  whites  and  200  negroes.  I  have  the 
list. 

August  court,  1746.  William  Cabell  and  Thomas  Bal- 
low,  gentlemen,  produced  their  commissions  and  took  their 
oaths  as  coroners  of  Albemarle. 

September  court,  1746.  William  Cabell  produced  his 
commission  from  the  president  and  masters  of  the  College 
of  William  and  Mary,  and  qualified  as  assistant  surveyor  of 
the  county. 

May  court,  1747.  WiUiam  Cabell,  Samuel  Jordan,  and 
other  Justices  of  the  Peace  to  take  lists  of  tithes  the  ensuing 
year.    I  have  Mr.  Cabell's  Hst :  180  whites  and  205  negroes. 

November  court,  1747.  "  William  Cabell,  coroner  for 
an  Inquisition  on  George  Jack." 

March  court,  1748.  William  Cabell  procured  a  license 
for  an  ordinary  at  his  ferry,  Benjamin  Harris  his  security. 
He  also  gave  a  ferry  bond. 

In  1749,  Goochland  County  was  again  divided,  the  part 
of  it  on  the  south  side  of  James  River  beino-  formed  into 
a  new  county  called  Cumberland,  for  William-Augustus, 
Duke  of  Cumberland,  the  second  son  of  George  11.,  who 
had  defeated  the  Pretender  at  Culloden  April  16,  1746. 
The  first  court  of  this  county  was  held  on  May  22,  1749. 
(Powhatan  County  was  not  formed  from  Cumberland  until 
1777.)  The  records  have  been  preserved.  The  first  jus- 
tices were  :  George  Carrington  (presiding  j  ustice  and  county 
lieutenant),  Archibald  Cary,  Thomas  Turpin,  Creed  Haskins, 
Nicholas  Davies,  James  Terry,  Wade  Netherland,  Benjamin 
Harris,  Alexander  Trent,  and  William  Bernard. 

I  do  not  deny  that  Dr.  CabeU  was  a  man  of  science,  etc., 
as  many  of  his  descendants  have  claimed,  for  the  library 
which  he  left  shows  the  bent  of  his  mind  that  way  ;  but  it 
must  be  remembered  that  from  the  first  he  was  a  frontiers- 
man, a  pioneer,  a  pathfinder  in  a  new  world,  and  in  faithfully 
fulfilling  this,  his  destiny,  he  was  ready  to  turn  his  hand 
and  mind  to  whatever  turned  up  before  him,  whether  it  was 
dispensing  justice,  chopping  out  entries,  surveying  lands. 


IN  AMERICA  51 

amputating  a  limb,  curing  a  wound,  physicking  liis  neighbor, 
trading  for  tobacco,  bartering  or  fighting  with  Indians,  or 
what  not.  In  the  early  spring,  before  the  leaves  put  out, 
in  the  late  autumn,  after  they  had  fallen,  and  in  the  winter, 
when  the  weather  would  permit,  from  1746  to  1753,  he 
was  almost  constantly  employed  in  surveying.  During  this 
period,  1209  entries  for  land  were  made  with  the  surveyor, 
and  nearly  all  of  the  good  land  in  old  Albemarle  which  had 
not  previously  been  located  was  taken  up. 

The  starting-points  of  these  original  entries  before  local- 
ities, etc.,  had  been  named  are  frequently  curious  and  inter- 
esting :  "  Beginning  on  Bridle  creek  where  Thomas  Turpin, 
John  Patterson  and  Thomas  Phelps  drank  a  dram."  "  On 
the  Dutch  path  where  Capt.  Lynch's  mare  died."  "  On 
Buffalo  creek  where  Job  Thomas  killed  a  deer."  "  In  the 
Buck's  elbow,  where  John  Thornton  killed  a  wolf."  "  At 
a  Bear's  Wallow."  "  At  a  Beaver  pond."  "  At  a  Wolf 
trap."  "  At  a  large  rock  which  we  called  Hercules  Pillar 
on  Moorman's  river."  "  At  the  Devil's  Elbow  on  Appo- 
mattox river,"  etc.  "  April  29th  1752.  Thomas  Grubbs 
and  James  Harris,  chain-carriers,  killed  an  angry  rattle- 
snake which  they  cooked  and  ate  the  next  morning." 

November  24,  1747,  Dr.  Cabell  surveyed  for  Captain 
Charles  Lynch  two  tracts,  one  of  425  acres,  the  other  165 
acres,  both  granted  by  patents  of  September  20,  1745,  to 
Col.  John  Boiling,  and  by  him  conveyed  to  Capt.  Lynch, 
located  on  James  River,  at  the  mouth  of  Blackwater  Creek, 
including  the  present  site  of  Lynchburg,  "  being  one  half 
barren,  the  other  pkmtable." 

April  26,  1748,  he  surveyed  for  Major  George  Carring- 
ton  3,374  acres  on  Harris  Creek  of  James  River  (just  above 
Lynchburg  in  Amherst  County),  which  had  been  granted  by 
patent  dated  December  28,  1743. 

July  2,  1748,  with  the  Rev.  Robert  Rose,  he  surveyed 
Rose's  "  Piney  woods  being  1870  acres."  Rev.  Robert 
Rose  was  the  parson  of  St.  Anne's  parish,  and  a  very  re- 
markable man.     I  have  a  copy  of  the  survey  of  Rose's  ori- 


52  THE   CABELLS   AND  THEIR   KIN 

ginal  entry  which  bears  this  indorsation  :  "  A  plat  of  twenty- 
three  thousand  seven  hundred  acres  of  land  in  Goochland 
County  surveyed  for  Rev.  Robert  Rose  and  certified  March 
23rd  1741.  William  Mayo,  Survr." 

"  March  23rd  1741 "  is  old  style,  equivalent  to  April  3, 
1742,  present  style.  The  lands  were  granted  to  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Rose  by  patent  dated  August  30,  1744.  They  were 
on  the  Piney  and  upper  Tye  rivers,  and  the  waters  thereof. 

Dr.  Cabell  was  long  a  member  of  the  vestry,  a  church- 
warden, etc.,  the  Rev.  Robert  Rose  and  himself  were  good 
friends,  and  he  is  frequently  mentioned  in  Rose's  Diary, 
which  is  now  preserved  by  the  Virginia  Historical  Society. 
He  frequently  preached  at  and  stayed  at  "  Capt  Cabal's." 
"  Jan'y  23rd  1749  stayed  at  Capt.  Cabal's  reading  the  Lit- 
eral Scheme  and  viewing  his  low  grounds  —  Saw  Martin 
Duncan's  wife  making  sugar." 

Dr.  Cabell  brought  Martin  Duncan  a  16-gallon  still  from 
England  in  1741,  but  I  suppose  this  still  was  for  making 
something  stronger  than  sugar. 

"May  13,  1751.  Called  at  Capt.  Cabal's."  This,  I  be- 
lieve, is  his  last  reference  to  "  Capt.  Cabal  "  in  his  diary.  He 
was  then  on  his  way  to  Richmond,  where  he  died  on  June 
30  following,  and  lies  buried  in  old  St.  John's  churchyard. 

On  June  6,  1751,  Capt.  Cabell  "laid  off  Beverly  Town, 
at  Westham,"  on  James  Biver,  six  or  seven  miles  above 
Richmond.  The  streets  were  three  poles  wide.  Each  lot 
contained  half  an  acre,  and  was  two  chains  and  twenty-four 
links  square.  There  were  156  lots,  and  the  plan  covered 
91  acres,  50  acres  low,  and  41  acres  high  ground.  It  may 
be  that  the  Rev.  Robert  Rose  assisted  Capt.  Cabell  in  lay- 
ing off  this  town,  as,  like  the  captain,  he  was  much  inter- 
ested in  advancing  the  interests  of  internal  commerce,  etc. 
The  lots  were  taken  by  77  persons.  Of  those  who  took 
more  than  one,  William  Cabell  took  6 ;  Carter  Braxton  and 
Arthur  Hopkins,  5  each ;  Andrew  Anderson,  Peter  Jeffer- 
son, and  Rev.  Robert  Rose,  4  each ;  Povall  Carter  and 
Joshua  Fry,  3  eachj  and  John  Boiling,  Harden  Burnley, 


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John  Chiswell,  James  Grey,  John  Hood,  Lnnsford  Lomax, 
William  Megginson,  John  Nicholas,  Archibald  Rich,  and 
Samuel  Spencer,  2  each.  The  plan  was  "  recorded  June  1, 
1752."     It  is  now  one  of  the  dead  towns  of  Virginia. 

At  Albemarle  court,  in  August,  1751,  Dr.  Cabell  re- 
newed his  bond  as  assistant  surveyor,  with  John  Harvie  and 
Benjamin  Harris  as  his  securities.  And  at  the  same  court 
he  became  one  of  the  securities  for  Capt.  James  Daniel  as 
Sheriff  of  Albemarle,  as  he  had  done  when  Daniel  was 
Sheriff  of  Goochland  in  1743. 

I  find  the  following  note  on  one  of  Dr.  Cabell's  surveys : 
"  May  2,  1752.  Surveyed  while  the  sun  was  in  the  great 
eclipse."  The  survey  was  for  James  Harris,  on  Moor- 
man's River,  Albemarle. 

The  first  entry  above  Dr.  Cabell  in  the  James  River  valley 
on  the  south  side  of  the  river  was  made  by  Col.  John  Boi- 
ling. The  first  above  on  the  north  side  was  made  by 
George  Braxton.  His  grant  is  dated  November  25,  1743, 
but  the  entry  was  made  several  years  before  this.  He  died 
in  1749,  and  left  these  lands  to  his  son.  Carter  Braxton, 
who  was  afterwards  a  sig-ner  of  the  Declaration  of  Inde- 
pendence.  Secretary  John  Carter,  about  the  same  time  as 
his  brother-in-law,  George  Braxton,  located  lands  in  this 
section  on  Tye  River,  adjoining  Rev.  Robert  Rose.  Speaker 
John  Robinson,  Col.  John  Chiswell,  and  other  non-residents 
located  lands  about  the  same  time,  being  represented  on 
their  lands  by  their  agents.  Col.  John  Boiling's  grants 
were  on  both  sides  of  the  river.  Above  him  (also  on  both 
sides  of  the  river)  was  the  large  grant  of  Nicholas  Davies. 

In  one  of  the  Davis  pedigrees,  which  I  have  seen,  it  is 
stated  that  "  Robert  Davis,  Sr.,  entered  about  the  year 
1720  a  large  tract  of  land  bounded  by  the  James  and  Ped- 
lar rivers."  But  no  entries  were  made  in  that  section  prior 
to  1740.  However,  if  the  Floyd  tradition  is  correct,  his 
father  or  himself  may  have  had  a  station  there  as  early  as 
1720  for  trading  with  the  Indians ;  because  in  Dr.  Cabell's 
first  survey  in  that  section,  and  in  several  of  his  subsequent 


54  THE   CABELLS   AND   THEIR   KIN 

surveys,  he  uses  as  a  landmark  in  his  field-notes  "  the  old 
stone-chimney,^^  which  then  stood  on  the  Amherst  side,  near 
the  bank  of  James  River,  about  half  a  mile  above  the 
mouth  of  Otter  Creek,  which  may  have  marked  the  site  of 
their  station.  This  "  old  stone-chimney,"  which  I  find  as  a 
landmark  in  the  first  entry  made  by  a  white  man  in  this 
wild  region,  has  always  had  a  peculiar  fascination  for  me. 
I  have  often  wondered  when  and  by  whom  this  lone 
sentinel  of  civilization  in  the  wilderness  was  built.  What 
tales  it  could  tell !  Around  it  in  fancy  many  a  romance  of 
the  Indian  and  the  pale  face  could  be  woven,  with  the  chil- 
dren and  grandchildren  of  the  Princess  Nicketti  for  heroes 
and  heroines. 

Robert  Davis,  Sr.,  had  certainly  settled  here  prior  to 
1753 ;  had  cleared  a  plantation  about  the  mouth  of  Law- 
rence's Creek,  built  some  houses,  and  made  other  improve- 
ments. In  October,  1753,  Dr.  Cabell  surveyed  the  entries 
of  Nicholas  Davies,  on  both  sides  of  James  River,  for 
31,450  acres  of  land,  beginning  about  four  miles  above 
Lynchburg,  extending  up  tlie  river  to  Otter  Creek,  and 
naturally  including  the  plantation  of  Robert  Davis,  Sr., 
to  which,  for  some  reason,  he  had  neglected  getting  a  title. 
Out  of  friendship,  and  owing  to  relationship.  Dr.  Cabell 
tried  to  protect  Robert  Davis  by  making  a  prior  survey  for 
him  and  entering  it  in  the  secretary's  office  before  he  sur- 
veyed Davies's  entries.  But  Nicholas  Davies  brought  suit 
against  Davis  and  Cabell  in  "  ye  general  Court "  on  the 
ground  of  the  right  of  prior  entry,  took  the  plantation  of 
Davis  away  from  him,  and  caused  Dr.  Cabell  a  great  deal 
of  trouble.  Davis,  with  his  second  wife  and  their  sons, 
then  removed  to  North  Carolina.  The  children  by  his  first 
wife  (Miss  Hughes)  remained  in  Virginia,  but  several  of 
them  were  afterwards  among  the  first  settlers  of  Kentucky. 

Dr.  Cabell,  partly  owing  to  this  trouble,  determined  to 
give  up  the  surveying  business,  and  in  December,  1753,  he 
turned  it  over  to  his  son  William.  He  had  utilized  the 
position  to  increase  his  possessions  by  some  26,000  acres  of 


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picked  lands,  the  best  of  which  he  held  and  gave  to  his 
children ;  the  rest  he  sold  at  an  advanced  price,  and  rein- 
vested in  other  lands  from  time  to  time.  At  first,  his  neigh- 
bors had  been  few  and  far  apart.  The  settlements  had 
now  become  quite  numerous,  and  he  resumed  the  practice 
of  his  profession.  He  was  successful  both  as  a  physician 
and  as  a  surgeon,  practicing  in  his  own  and  neighboring 
counties  (the  then  counties  of  Albemarle,  Augusta,  Prince 
Edward,  and  Bedford)  with  great  acceptability.  His 
charges  per  visit  were  from  <£!  to  <£5,  Virginia  currency, 
according  to  the  distance  traveled.  In  his  practice,  he  used  / 
various  purges,  boluses,  cordials,  pills,  blisters,  drops,  pow- 
ders, plasters,  sweats  (a  favorite  remedy),  emetics,  etc.,  and 
the  following  specifics :  "  Turlington's  Balsam,"  "  Bate- 
man's  Drops,"  ^"  Stoughton's  Bitters,"  "Anderson's  Pills," 
etc.  Rhubarb  seems  to  have  been  a  favorite  remedy.  He 
seldom  used  calomel.  He  imported  much  of  his  material, 
conducted  his  own  "apothecary  shop,"  and  compounded 
most  of  his  remedies,  many  of  which  were  entirely  vege- 
table, prepared  by  himself  from  various  native  plants,  roots, 
and  barks.  I  have  no  memoranda  of  his  ever  bleeding 
any  one,  though  he  may  have  done  so,  as  it  was  then  very 
customary. 

For  the  convenience  of  patients  from  a  distance,  he  con- 
ducted a  private  hospital  near  his  residence,  which  seems  to 
have  been  quite  perfect  in  its  arrangements.  In  this  estab- 
lishment, from  his  record,  it  appears  that  he  treated  a  wide 
range  of  diseases  difficult  to  relieve.  He  also  performed 
many  surgical  operations.  The  ordinary  charge  for  ampu- 
tating a  leg  or  arm  was  <£7  10s.,  but  with  a  guarantee  of 
cure  it  was  from  twelve  pounds  to  fifteen  pounds.  The 
doctor's  artisans  made  the  wooden  legs,  price  ten  shillings. 
All  patients  paid  for  board  and  necessaries  furnished, 
whether  they  were  cured  or  not ;  but  his  professional  ser- 
vices were  generally  contracted  for  on  the  "no  cure,  no 
pay  "  plan.  If  the  patient  was  cured,  the  sum  agreed  upon 
was  paid.     These  guarantees  ranged  from  five  pounds  to 


66  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

one  hundred  pounds  or  more.  If  the  patient  died,  the 
doctor's  artisans  made  the  coffin,  dug  the  grave,  and  buried 
the  subject.  "  To  coffin,  sheet,  and  interment,  £2  lis.  6d." 
There  was  no  charge  for  medical  services.  In  those  days 
of  poor  roads  and  rude  conveyances,  each  of  these  services 
—  hospital,  undertaker,  and  graveyard  —  was  a  great  charity. 
The  following  is  a  copy  of  the  indenture  of  a  white  ser- 
vant :  "  This  Indenture  made  the  28th  day  of  October 
in  the  year  of  our  Lord  God  one  thousand,  seven  hundred 
and  fifty  two,  between  William  Cabell  of  the  parisli  of  St. 
Anne  in  the  County  of  Albemarle,  gentleman,  of  the  one 

part,  and of  the  parish  and  County  aforesaid  —  Wit- 

nesseth,  that  the  said is  bound  by  an  order  of  Court 

to  the  said  Cabell  from  the  day  of  the  date  of  these  pres- 
ents 'till  he  shall  arrive  to  the  age  of  twenty  one  years  old. 

During  which  term  the   said  is  faithfully  to  serve 

his  said  master,  his  lawful  commands  gladly  everywhere 
obey,  his  secrets  keep,  not  to  waste  nor  embezzle  wilfully 
his  said  master's  goods,  nor  to  frequent  ordinaries  or  any 
such  place  without  leave.  Cards  or  Dice  he  shall  not  play, 
but  in  all  things  behave  himself  as  a  faithfuU  apprentice  or 
servant  ought  to  do.  Neither  shall  he  contract  matrimony, 
during  the  said  term,  without  leave.  For  which  service 
said  Master  doth  hereby  covenant  and  agree  to  find  him, 

the  said ,  during  the  said  term,  sufficient  meat,  drink, 

washing  and  lodging  fitting  for  such  an  apprentice  or  ser- 
vant ;  to  have  him  taught  to  read  and  vjrite  ;  to  give  him 
sufficient  apparel  during  the  said  term,  —  and  to  have  Mm 
taught  the  Tanner^ s  trade.  For  the  true  performance  of 
which  we  do  hereby  bind  ourselves  to  each  other  as  witness 
our  hands  and  seals  the  day  and  year  above  written. 

Wm.  Cabell  [Seal.] 

[Seal] 

"  Signed,  sealed  and  delivered 
in  presence  of 

Guy  Smith, 

James  Nevill." 


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The  following  shows  "the  net  duty"  on  slaves  at  the 
same  period  :  — 

"  October  23rd,  1752.  Received  of  Capt.  William  Ca- 
bell, £15  8  shillings,  the  Nett  Duty  on  13  slaves  sold  him 
by  Mr.  James  Graham.  For  the  Treasurer, 

£15.8.  George  Webb." 

"A  head  right  "  of  50  acres  was  granted  for  every  person 
imported  into  the  colony,  without  regard  to  nationality,  etc. 
Dr.  Cabell  used  about  300  head  rights  in  his  numerous 
entries  for  land ;  but  there  were  "  transfers "  and  "  re- 
moves," and  under  various  pretexts  the  same  "  rights  "  were 
used  so  often,  it  is  not  possible  to  say  how  many  were  im- 
ported by  him,  especially  during  his  stay  in  England  and 
soon  after  his  return.  But  a  larg-e  number  of  the  first  set- 
tiers  here  were  from  Somerset  and  Wilts,  and  many  of  them 
are  said  to  have  been  brought  over  by  him,  or  came  through 
his  instrumentality.  Among  his  numerous  employments 
from  the  first  was  the  locating  of  tenants,  or  retainers,  on 
his  grants,  having  the  lands  cleared  and  prepared  for 
cultivation,  necessary  houses  erected  thereon,  dwellings, 
mills,  etc. 

There  are  also  evidences  that  the  doctor  had  "  his  rubs." 
There  are  traces  of  a  long  dispute  with  Mr.  James  Dickie 
of  the  upper  Tye  River,  which  began  in  1750,  when  he 
was  surveying  on  Castle  Creek.  Dickie  sued  him  "  for  hav- 
ing used  abusive  language  towards  him."  In  his  reply.  Dr. 
Cabell  says :  "  Mr.  Dickie  came  there  as  I  was  surveying 
George  Rust's  and  my  entries  .  .  .  and  after  I  had  told 
him  if  he  was  agreeved  he  might  be  remedied  by  Caveat, 
he  stopt  the  chain  and  endeavored  to  break  it,  which  caused 
me  to  apply  the  words  of  Solomon  to  him,  and  this  is  all 
the  scurrillity  I  was  guilty  of." 

In  December,  1756,  John  Cowley  entered  into  an  agree- 
ment "  to  serve  him  in  every  lawful  employment."  To 
which  contract  the  doctor  has  appended  the  following  note : 
"  He  lay  abed  next  morning  till  near  sun  up ;  then  sits  by 


58  THE   CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

the  fire  about  2  or  3  hours,  then  comes  out,  stretches  him- 
self, and  asked  where  the  negroes  and  tobacco  was.  I  told 
him  in  the  tobacco  house,  etc.  He  caught  his  horse  and 
went  off  without  taking  leave." 

I  do  not  know  what  "  words  of  Solomon  "  were  applied 
to  Dickie,  nor  what  were  included  in  the  "  etc.''''  addressed 
to  Cowley ;  but  I  am  afraid  that  the  doctor's  applications 
were  not  mild.  In  1757  he  whipt  James  Spears,  for  which 
he  had  to  pay  on  a  suit  for  assault  and  battery  1045  lbs.  of 
net  tobacco  and  £1  lis.  cash. 

The  Cabell  papers  are  almost  entirely  confined  to  busi- 
ness transactions.  They  convey  but  little  information  as  to 
events  and  occurrences  of  note,  and  prior  to  1750  history  is 
equally  silent  as  to  these  things  in  this  section.  There  are, 
however,  traditions  of  Indian  forays,  and  stories  of  conflicts 
and  troubles  with  them.  It  is  said  that  Capt.  Cabell's  and 
other  companies  of  the  county  "  saw  service  more  than  once 
in  raids  against  the  Savages  in  which  the  Indians  came  by 
the  worst,"  and  we  know  that  there  were  many  noted  Indian 
fighters  in  this  region.  When  the  French  and  Indian  war 
came  on  in  1754,  the  doctor  was  too  old  for  active  service. 
He  had  retired  from  nearly  all  public  employments,  and  his 
sons  were  coming  to  the  front. 

At  the  November  session,  1753,  the  Assembly  passed  an 
act  forming  Bedford  from  Lunenburg  County,  to  take 
effect  May  10,  1754.  At  the  October  session,  1754,  they 
passed  an  act  to  take  effect  from  January  1,  1755,  adding 
all  that  part  of  Albemarle  on  the  south  side  of  James  River 
lying  above  a  line  drawn  from  the  mouth  of  Stonewall  Creek 
to  the  head  of  FalUng  River  to  the  new  county  of  Bedford. 
The  previous  line  between  the  counties  was  (approximately 
the  watershed  line  between  the  waters  of  the  James  and 
Staunton  rivers)  "  inconvenient,"  and  this  act  made  James 
River  the  line.  ;  ^^^ 

Mrs.  Ehzabeth  Cabell  died  September  21, 1656,  and  Dr. 
Cabell  made  a  note,  which  was  found  among  his  papers,  that 
she  "  died  of  a  coma  and  bihous  fever,  on  Monday,  about 


IN  AMERICA  59 

an  hour  by  sun  in  the  evening  —  and  was  interred  by  the 
side  of  my  son  George  —  according  to  her  desii-e  —  and  join- 
ing to  her,  I  desire  to  be  laid."  Her  parents,  Samuel  and 
Mary  Davis  Burks,  were  from  Hanover  (when  that  county 
extended  to  the  Blue  Ridge  Mountains),  and  as  the  records 
have  been  destroyed,  the  only  account  which  I  have  of  her 
ancestors  is  traditional ;  but  the  evidence  that  she  was  an 
excellent  mother,  w^ife,  and  woman  is  ample.  Her  only  sis- 
ter, Mary  Burks,  married  Obadiah  Smith  (who  died  Feb- 
ruary 18,  1777,  in  Chesterfield  County,  Va.),  and  became 
the  mother,  inter  alios,  of  Peartree  Smith  whose  descend- 
ants went  to  Kentucky,  of  William  Smith  who  married 
Elizabeth  Mayo,  of  Lucy  Smith  who  married  James  Powell 
Cocke,  and  of  Elizabeth  Smith  who  married  Isaac  Winston. 

At  the  April  session,  1757,  the  Assembly  passed  an  act 
to  take  effect  July  20  following,  adding  the  upper  part  of 
St.  Anne's  Parish,  Albemarle  (north  of  a  line  run  up  the 
Rivanna  River,  from  King's  Ford  to  the  Secretary's  Ford, 
and  thence  by  the  main  road  leading  to  Wood's  Gap  in  the 
Blue  Ridge)  to  Fredericksville  Parish,  Louisa,  and  making 
the  part  of  St.  Anne's  south  of  James  River  a  new  parish, 
called  Tillotson. 

On  October  4,  1757,  Dr.  Cabell  sold  to  John  Smith,  Jr., 
his  old  tract  of  1200  acres  on  Licking-Hole  Creek  in  Gooch- 
land County.  He  continued  for  some  years  to  own  lands 
in  that  county,  and  in  the  present  Albemarle,  but  since 
1734  his  landed  interests  had  been  mostly  within  the  bounds 
of  the  present  counties  of  Nelson,  x\mherst,  and  Bucking- 
ham. 

The  following  extracts  from  his  memoranda  are  interest- 
ing:  — 

"  Oct.  31.  1757.  Ao-reed  to  rent  Watt's  creek  tract  to 
Devereux  Gerard  alias  Jarret,  for  5  years  at  1200  lbs  to- 
bacco. —  Self  and  two  negroes."  Jarret  paid  this  rent  for 
1758,  1759,  and  1760,  after  which  year  he  probably  left. 
Was  this  the  afterwards  celebrated  Rev.  Devereux  Jarratt  ? 

"  On  Wednesday  night,  ye  22d.  of  March  1758,  between 


60  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

9  and  10  of  the  clock,  I  felt  a  very  severe  shock  of  an 
Earthquake  preceded  about  by  something  like  lumbering 
thunder.  In  the  morning  I  asked  one  of  my  negroes  if  he 
heard  the  noise  or  felt  the  shaking?  He  told  me  he  did, 
and  the  reason  thereof,  he  said  —  the  ground  was  sick." 

In  1759,  corn  was  ten  shillings  per  barrel,  dressed  pork 
twenty  shillings  per  100  lbs.,  beef  a  penny  a  pound,  and 
Dr.  William  Cabell  had  a  meadow  of  Timothy  hay.  St. 
Anne's  Parish  had  been  divided  in  1757 ;  it  was  now 
necessary  to  divide  Albemarle  County. 

AMHERST    COUNTY. 

The  March  Assembly,  1761,  passed  an  act,  to  take  effect 
from  May  1,  1761,  dividing  Albemarle  County.  The  por- 
tion south  of  James  River  was  made  a  new  county,  called 
Buckingham.  The  portion  north  of  the  James  was  divided 
by  a  line  up  Rockfish  River  "  to  the  mouth  of  Green  Creek 
and  thence  a  straig-ht  line  to  the  house  of  Thomas  Bell  con- 
tinued  to  the  Blue  Mountains  "  (the  present  line  between 
Albemarle  and  Nelson).  East  of  this  line  remained  Albe- 
marle ;  west  of  it  was  formed  a  new  county  called  Amherst, 
for  General  Jeffery  Amherst,  the  hero  of  Ticonderoga 
(1759)  and  governor-general  of  British  North  America. 
Amherst  Parish,  with  the  same  bounds  as  the  county,  was 
taken  from  St.  Anne's  at  the  same  time,  and  Rev.  Ichabod 
Camp  from  Middletown  and  Wallingford  in  Connecticut 
was  the  first  minister  thereof.  Dr.  William  Cabell  had  lo- 
cated lands  in  the  present  county  of  Amherst,  thirty  years 
before  old  Amherst  County  was  formed. 

At  the  same  session  the  present  line  between  Albemarle 
and  Louisa  was  ordered  to  be  run,  and  the  portion  west  of 
this  line  was  added  to  Albemarle.  And  so  after  May  1, 
1761,  this  strip  of  land,  from  seven  to  ten  miles  wide  and 
about  twenty-five  miles  long,  containing  the  seats  of  some 
of  the  Walkers,  Meriwethers,  Lewises,  etc.,  became  for  the 
first  time  a  part  of  Albemarle. 

The  records  of  Buckingham  County  have  been  destroyed. 


IN  AMERICA  61 

The  records  of  Amherst  are  not  complete,  but  I  am  able  to 
give  quite  a  full  list  of  the  first  officials.  The  first  court 
was  held  at  Henry  Key's  ordinary  on  Monday,  June  1, 
1761.  The  first  court  house  was  on  the  main  road  just 
above  the  present  Arrington,  Nelson  County.  It  was  lo- 
cated on  land  which  was  afterwards  purchased  by  Dr. 
Cabell's  eldest  son  and  called  Cabellsburg.  The  first  offi- 
cials were :  — 

Magistrates :  Col.  William  Cabell  the  elder  (see  sketch 
of  him),  presiding,  and  John  Rose,  John  Reid  (died  1763), 
James  Nevil,  Daniel  Burford,  George  Stovall,  Jr.,  CorneHus 
Thomas,  David  Crawford,  Jr.  (died  1766),  John  Howard, 
Francis  Meriwether,  James  Dillard,  and  Ambrose  Lee ; 
County  Lieutenant :  Col.  William  Cabell  the  elder ;  Colo- 
nel :  John  Rose ;  Lieutenant-Colonel :  John  Reid ;  Major : 
James  Nevil ;  Clerh  :  George  Seaton,  1761-1765,  Edmund 
Wilcox,  1766-1776 ;  King's  Attorney :  John  Harvie, 
1761-1768.  Among  the  other  attorneys  prior  to  the  Revo- 
lution were  Peter  Hogg,  George  Walker,  William  Watts, 
Dabney  Carr,  Edmund  Winston,  Thomas  Madison,  Charles 
Rose,  Luke  Boyer,  John  Aylett,  Ephraim  Dunlop,  Bernard 
Moore,  Thomas  Miller,  and  William  Cowan.  And  among 
the  other  colonial  justices  or  magistrates  were  Zacharias 
and  Charles  Taliaferro,  Hugh  and  Henry  Rose,  Daniel 
Gaines,  Ambrose  and  Ben  Rucker,  Charles  Rodes,  Alexan- 
der Reid,  Jr.,  Thomas  Wyatt,  Roderick  McCulloch,  William 
Horsley,  David  Crawford  (died  1802),  Joseph  Cabell,  Ga- 
briel Penn,  John  Dawson,  and  John  Digges. 

On  September  30,  1762,  Dr.  William  Cabell  married 
Mrs.  Margaret  Meredith,  the  widow  of  Samuel  Meredith, 
Sr.,  of  Hanover.  On  October  25,  1764,  he  gave  Geddes 
Winston,  Esq.,  a  power  of  attorney  to  look  after  his  inter- 
est in  the  Meredith  estate. 

In  April,  1763,  he  made  sundry  deeds  to  his  sons,  Wil- 
liam, Joseph,  and  John,  and  to  the  children  of  his  deceased 
daughter,  Mary  Horsley,  for  various  tracts  of  land. 


62  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

In  1765,  he  used  "scythes  and  cradles"  in  cutting  his 
spring  wheat,  and  furnished  "  the  timber  for  the  frame  of 
Key's  Church." 

In  17GG,  owing  to  age,  etc.,  he  resigned  from  the  vestry 
of  the  upper  part  of  the  parish,  and  "  Henry  Rose,  Esq.,  was 
appointed  in  his  room." 

Although  the  old  doctor  was  a  good  churchman,  he  was 
also  a  dear  lover  of  a  good  horse,  kept  a  good  stable,  looked 
after  his  horses  himself,  and  was  always  ready  to  risk  a 
small  stake  like  the  following  on  them  :  — 

"  Sept  7th  1767  made  a  race  with  Mr.  Campbell,  with 
pleasure,  against  his  Seaton  mare,  for  40  bushels  of  hemp- 
seed,  a  barbecue,  and  20  gallons  of  Punch.  To  be  run  in 
April  next,  at  my  race  course." 

In  1767,  he  had  a  mill  on  Rucker's  Run.  Isaac  Read 
and  Edmund  Winston  were  his  lawyers. 

In  1768,  "  an  unusually  large  amount  of  tobacco  was 
shipped  from  his   Swan  Creek  warehouse." 

Mrs.  Margaret  Cabell  (his  second  wife)  died  without  issue 
by  him,  February  26,  1768. 

January  3,  1769,  he  wrote  his  last  will,  in  a  few  lines, 
leaving  (with  certain  reservations)  his  whole  remaining 
estate  to  his  youngest  son,  Nicholas,  whom  he  appointed 
his  whole  and  sole  executor.  It  was  signed  in  the  presence 
of  Samuel  Burks,  John  Savage,  Robert  and  John  Horsley. 
He  had  conveyed  to  his  other  children  their  portions  of  his 
estate  by  deeds  in  1763. 

Some  time  prior  to  1771,  a  company  called  "  The  Al- 
bemarle Furnace  Company  "  was  organized  to  work  certain 
iron  mines  on  and  near  Hardware  River,  consisting  of  the 
following  gentlemen  :  — 

James  Buchannon,  .£300 

Dr.  Wilham  Cabell,  200 

Col.  William  Cabell,  200 

Col.  Joseph  Cabell,  100 

Col.  Edward  Carter,  300 

Maj.  AUen  Howard,  200 


IN  AMERICA 

Thomas  Jefferson 

100 

Nicholas  Lewis, 

100 

John  Scott, 

100 

John  Walker, 

100 

Dr.  Thomas  Walker, 

300 

63 


Total,  £2,000 

John  Old,  of  Berks  County,  Province  of  Pennsylvania, 
owned  a  half  interest  in  these  mines,  which  Dr.  Cabell 
bought  from  him  September  15,  1771,  for  "730  pounds 
Pennsylvania  currency,  equivalent  to  584  pounds  Va."  The 
stockholders  met  from  time  to  time  "  about  the  Iron 
Works."  A  furnace  and  a  forge  were  built.  In  1772, 
Rev.  Charles  Clay  was  a  stockholder.  Dr.  Cabell  soon 
transferred  all  of  his  stock  to  his  son  Nicholas. 

His  health  began  to  fail  in  1772.  He  died  April  12, 
1774,  "  after  a  long  and  tedious  illness,  which  he  bore  with 
the  most  Christian  fortitude,  and  with  resignation  to  the 
Divine  Will."  His  remains,  in  accordance  with  his  wish, 
were  laid  in  his  burial-ground  at  Warminster,  next  to  those 
of  "his  loving  wife  Elizabeth  Cabell,"  on  the  present  "Lib- 
erty Hall "  estate,  where  they  now  lie  under  a  monument 
erected  with  means  bequeathed  for  the  purpose  by  his  grand- 
son, Joseph  Carrington  Cabell,  under  the  direction  of  his 
great-grandson,  the  late  N.  F.  CabeU,  Esq.  The  monument 
is  just  by  an  old  elm-tree,  which  is  said  to  be  exactly  over  — 
that  is,  to  grow  out  of  —  their  graves.  It  bears  these  in- 
scriptions :  On  side  1.  "  Near  this  spot  lie  the  earthly 
remains  of  Dr.  WiUiam  Cabell.  A  native  of  Wiltshire,  Eng- 
land, and  the  Founder  of  the  family  in  Virginia  which  bears 
his  name. 

"  Those  of  Ehzabeth  Cabell  his  wife  and  the  mother  of 
his  children,  who  died  Sep.  21,  1756,  lie  by  his  side." 

On   side    2  :     "  William    Cabell    emio^rated    from    War- 
minster,  England  to  the  Colony  of  Virginia  about  1723-4. 
Born,  March  9,  1687. 
Died,  April  12,  1774. 
Aged  87  years." 


64  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

On  side  3  :  "In  honour  of  their  memory  was  this  stone 
erected  hy  the  piety  of  their  grandson,  Joseph  C.  Cabell." 
There  is  no  inscription  on  side  4. 

It  will  be  observed  that  the  date  of  his  birth  is  not  cor- 
rectly given  on  his  monument.  When  I  received  the 
attested  copies  of  the  parish  and  other  records  from  Eng- 
land showing  that  he  was  born  "  on  Saturday  March  9th 
1699  "  (0.  S.),  I  carried  them  down  and  showed  them  to 
Mr.  N.  F.  Cabell.  After  he  had  read  them,  he  acknow- 
ledo'ed  that  the  date  on  the  monument  was  Avronof.  He 
said  that  "  when  he  began  to  look  into  the  matter,  the  old 
family  Bible  was  not  to  be  found  anywhere,  and  that  the 
only  data  in  the  premises  that  he  did  find  was  a  MS. 
note  in  the  handwriting  of  Mr.  Joseph  C.  Cabell,  as  fol- 
lows :  '  Dr.  William  Cabell  died  April  12  1771  —  aged  87 
—  from  March  9th,  1774.'  Which,  if  it  had  been  correct, 
would  have  placed  his  birth  on  March  9,  1687." 

The  late  N.  F.  Cabell,  Esq.,  who  made  almost  a  life  study 
of  the  Cabell  family  history,  published  a  sketch  of  Dr.  Ca- 
bell in  "  The  Amherst  Enterprise  "  of  December  14,  1876, 
from  which  I  extract :  — 

"  In  person  he  was  tall,  much  above  the  common  height ; 
of  figure  rather  spare,  but  lithe  and  active,  and  with  great 
powers  of  endurance.  In  feature  he  was  decidedly  aqui- 
line, with  a  piercing  black  eye.  His  face,  which  was  said 
to  have  been  handsome  in  early  life,  was  afterwards  disfig- 
ured on  one  side,  with  the  loss  of  the  sight  of  an  eye.  Of 
this  mishap  two  accounts  have  been  given  ;  [I  have  men- 
tioned these.]  .  .  .  While  he  was  ever  amiable  and  affec- 
tionate in  his  family,  the  ancient  awe  and  filial  reverence 
were  extended  to  him  by  his  sons  long  after  the  latter  had 
themselves  attained  to  middle  life  and  an  assured  position 
in  society.  He  had  mingled  freely  with  all  ranks  in  the 
colony,  from  the  highest  to  the  humblest,  and  probably 
no  man  of  his  day  had  a  more  extensive  acquaintance 
throughout  this  middle  region  of  Virginia,  from  the  moun- 
tains to  the  metropolis ;  and  so  often  had  he  traversed  it 


IN  AMERICA  65 

that  but  few  of  its  highways,  or  even  byways,  were  un- 
known to  him.  While  he  was  accessible  to  all,  among  his 
equals  he  was  a  genial  companion,  and  his  store  of  know- 
ledge made  him  the  life  of  the  social  circle  wherever  he 
went.  Hundreds  of  his  quaint  or  pithy  sayings  were  long 
current  in  this  region,  and  numberless  anecdotes  were  also 
related  of  him,  some  of  which  spread  far  and  wide.  But 
these  were  better  left  to  tradition,  as  some  were  probably 
apocryphal  and  others  exaggerated. 

"  He  was  a  man  of  method,  economical  of  time  and  dili- 
gent in  business.  .  .  . 

"  His  courage  —  physical  and  moral,  was  undoubted.  .  .  . 
He  was  both  just  and  liberal,  faithful  in  the  discharge  of 
all  public  trusts,  and  an  enemy  to  all  abuse. 

"  On  feeling  the  approach  of  age  he  resigned  his  several 
posts  and  withdrew  from  his  more  distant  practice.  His 
study  became  his  sanctum,  and  he  left  behind  him  a  good 
library  for  his  day. 

"  The  frequent  addition  to  his  library  of  approved  medi- 
cal works  as  they  were  issued  in  England  authorize  the 
belief  that  he  pursued  this  study  not  solely  as  a  source  of 
profit,  but  as  a  branch  of  liberal  science,  and  that  without 
any  neglect  of  other  branches  of  physical  science,  as  well  as 
history  and  the  belles-lettres  generally. 

"  He  assisted  in  building  churches  and  supporting  the 
clergy,  and  acted  both  as  vestryman  and  churchwarden ; 
though  —  as  I  have  often  heard,  and  as  many  of  the  books  in 
his  library  would  go  to  prove  —  his  own  way  of  thinking  on 
such  subjects  was  what,  in  those  days,  was  called  '  free.'  .  .  . 
Thus,  in  his  library  were  found  several  books  of  English 
'freethinkers,'  so  called,  as  Collins,  Toland,  Mandeville, 
Bolingbroke,  and  one  or  two  of  Spinoza.  All  these  seem 
to  have  been  read,  but  with  discrimination,  and  not  con- 
demned in  the  gross,  as  such  contraband  articles  generally 
were  by  the  orthodox.  In  his  collection  were  also  found 
other  and  standard  works  of  approved  Divines.  From  these 
and  other  indications,  as  well  as  certain  traditionary  anec- 


66  THE   CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

dotes,  I  infer  that  the  general  cast  of  his  sentiments  on  this 
subject  was  what  would  now  be  called  '  liberal/  although 
he  conformed  to  the  Established  Church," 

That  the  old  doctor  was  willing  "  to  hear  both  sides " 
may  not  be  denied.  Yet  it  must  be  remembered  that  he 
was  not  only  a  vestryman  and  churchwarden,  but  also  an 
active  and  liberal  churchman,  —  prominent  in  building 
churches,  supporting  the  clergy,  etc.  At  the  same  time,  as 
some  of  his  immediate  ancestors  were  dissenters, —  followers, 
perhaps,  of  the  Rev.  Richard  Capel  (or  Cabell),  —  it  is 
natural  to  suppose  that  his  feelings  were  liberal  towards 
them.  And  this  feeling  was  shared  by  his  eldest  son.  Col. 
WilKam  Cabell,  as  the  historic  meeting  at  "  Union  Hill "  in 
November,  1774,  just  seven  months  after  his  death,  amply 
demonstrates. 

A    SUMMARY. 

X)r.  Cabell's  Hfe  from  1724  to  1774  covers  a  most  impor- 
tant half  century  in  our  history,  and  he  was  not  an  unim- 
portant actor  therein.  When  he  arrived  in  Virginia,  the 
settlements  generally  were  within  easy  reach  of  tide-water. 
When  he  settled  on  Licking-Hole  Creek,  about  1726,  his 
home  was  on  the  frontiers.  Westward  to  the  mountains 
was  an  almost  unknown  region,  —  a  wilderness  of  wild 
woods,  filled  with  wild  animals,  wild  Indians,  and  wild  le- 
gends. When  he  died,  this  forest  was  a  fairly  settled  coun- 
try. The  old  Indian  warpath  through  the  Rockfish  gap  of 
the  Blue  Ridge,  and  the  Buffalo  trail  along  the  Buffalo 
Ridge,  had  become  public  roads,  and  the  Indian  himself  was 
"  a  memory  and  no  more."  Much  of  the  preliminary  and 
rough  work  of  society  for  this  section  had  been  done.  The 
lands  were  generally  occupied.  Many  plantations  were  set- 
tled and  partially  cleared.  Necessary  buildings  —  includ- 
ing mansions  of  more  or  less  comfort  —  had  been  erected, 
and  roads  opened  for  public  and  social  intercourse.  The 
country  exhibited  flocks  and  herds,  fields  of  grain  and  to- 
bacco, gardens,  and  orchards.  A  foundation  had  been  laid 
for  a  respectable  and  advancing  society.     And  that  society, 


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inhaling  the  free  air  from  the  mountains,  was  even  then 
preparing  to  assert  its  own  independence. 

I  have  the  names  of  about  3000  of  the  first  settlers  of 
this  region,  including,  I  believe,  nearly  all  of  the  first  land- 
owners, and  I  know  more  or  less  about  the  most  of  them. 
Many  were  natives  of  Virginia,  some  few  of  Maryland, 
Pennsylvania,  and  other  colonies.  Many  were  emigrants 
from  England,  Wales,  Scotland,  Ireland,  and  the  British 
West  Indies.  Some  were  Huguenots,  and  a  few  Dutch 
made  a  settlement,  called  "  Nassau,"  in  the  present  county 
of  Nelson.  These  settlers  came  by  different  routes,  one 
stream  coming  up  James  River,  a  second  up  the  York  and 
its  tributaries,  until  it  joined  a  third  coming  down  Pied- 
mont, Va.,  on  the  east  side  of  the  mountains  ;  while  a 
fourth  stream  came  down  the  valley,  west  of  the  mountains, 
through  Wood's  (now  Jarman's)  and  Rockfish  gaps.  These 
streams  met  and  mingled  their  breeds  along  the  waters  of 
"  the  two  branches "  of  James  River,  and  scattered  their 
race  from  Kentucky  to  California.  The  University  of  Vir- 
ginia is  now  on  the  Avaters  of  the  North  Branch,  and  the 
Washington  and  Lee  University  on  the  waters  of  the  South 
Branch  of  James  River,  and  "  the  Cabells  and  their  kin  " 
were  instrumental  in  founding  both  of  these  Universities. 

Although  for  so  long  unsettled,  the  section  was  an  inter- 
esting objective  point  from  the  first.  Capt.  Christopher 
Newport,  in  the  first  voyage  to  the  Falls  of  James  River  in 
the  spring  of  1607,  was  told  that  "  after  a  daye's  jorney  or 
more,  this  river  devyds  itselfe  into  two  branches,  which 
both  wind  from  the  mountaynes  Quirauck,"  and  he  wished 
to  march  on  up  the  river.  But  Navirans,  his  Indian  guide, 
told  the  English,  "It  was  a  daye  and  a  halfe  jorney  to 
Monanacah  ;  and,  if  we  went  to  Quirauck  [the  Blue  Ridge], 
we  should  get  no  vittailes,  and  be  tyred ;  and  sought  by  all 
meanes  to  disswade  our  Captayne  from  going  any  further." 
In  1608,  however,  Newport  marched  about  forty  miles  above 
"  the  Falls,"  to  the  eastern  gold  belt  of  Virginia,  and  possi- 
bly to  where  "  this  river  devyds  itselfe."    In  1612,  William 


68  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

Strachey,  describing  James  River,  writes :  "  Forty  miles 
above  the  Falls,  it  hath  two  branches,  or  other  rivers,  that 
fall  into  it ;  the  head  of  the  northermost  [the  Rivanna] 
comes  from  certaine  steepe  mountaines  that  are  said  to  be 
impassable ;  the  head  of  the  other  [the  Fluvanna,  now  the 
James]  comes  from  high  hills  afar  of,  within  the  land,  from 
the  topps  of  which  hills,  the  people  [Indians]  say  they  see 
another  sea  —  and  that  the  water  is  there  Salt."  This  was 
an  Indian  legend. 

The  earliest  settlers  named  one  of  the  chief  tributaries 
of  the  Rivanna  River  "  Machumps  "  Creek,  which  was  the 
name  of  an  Indian  who  told  the  earliest  settlers  of  Virginia 
much  about  the  country.  It  is  now  called  "Machunk," 
or  "  Ohmychunk  "  Creek,  and  there  is  a  Virginian  legend 
as  to  the  origin  of  the  name.^ 

The  part  taken  by  most  of  the  religious  denominations 
in  the  development  of  this  section  is  comparatively  well 
known,^  but  as  we  have  had  no  adequate  idea  of  the  part 
taken  by  the  Quakers,  it  is  necessary  to  make  some  especial 
mention  of  the  Society  of  Friends  in  this  summary.  They 
are  scarcely  mentioned  in  our  public  records,  but  I  am  for- 
tunately able  to  give  a  brief  outline  of  the  advancement  of 
their  settlements  to  the  westward  from  their  own  records : 
"  Being  remote  from  the  monthly  Meeting  of  Friends  held 
in  Henrico,"  the  Quakers  of  Hanover  constituted  a  Meeting 
on  Cedar  Creek.  "  The  first  of  which  was  held  the  12th  of 
the  3rd  mo.  [i.  e.  May,  0.  S.]  1739.  .  .  .  Which  was  at- 
tended with  the  comfortable  ministry  of  our  weU  beloved 
friends  Thomas  Pleasants  and  William  Ladd.  .  .  .  Where 
also  was  read  the  Yearly  Meeting  printed  Epistle  from  Lon- 
don for  the  year  1738,  to  the  mutual  comfort  of  Friends." 
[At  a  later  day  John  Payne,  the  father  of  Mrs.  President 
Madison,  was  the  clerk  of  this  Cedar  Creek  Meeting.] 

In  1744,  or  prior  thereto  (the  early  records  are  missing), 
a   Meeting  was   settled    on    Camp    Creek  in    the   "  Green 

^  See  The  Quick  or  the  Dead?  pp.  1,  2. 

2  See  Meade's  Old  Churches,  Foote'a  Sketches  of  Virginia,  Turpiu'a  History 
of  Albemarle  Baptist  Association,  etc. 


IN  AMERICA  69 

Springs"  section  of  Louisa,  with  Charles  Moorman  and 
Thomas,  his  son,  as  overseers  of  the  same.  [Charles  Moor- 
man came  from  Isle  of  Wight  in  England  and  settled  on 
"  the  Green  Springs  "  land  in  the  present  county  of  Louisa. 
Moorman's  River,  Albemarle,  was  named  for  him.] 

In  1749,  a  Meeting  was  settled  near  "  the  Sugar  Loaf 
Mountains,"  with  Christopher  Clark,  Sr.,  and  Boling  Clark 
as  overseers.  This  Meeting  (then  in  Louisa)  was  in  the 
present  Albemarle,  near  Stony  Point.  The  road  between 
the  Camp  Creek  Quakers  and  the  Sugar  Loaf  Mountain 
Quakers  was  called  "  Clark's  Track."  It  went  across  Ma- 
chumps  Creek,  through  the  gap  in  the  Southwest  Moun- 
tains, between  "  Castle  Hill "  and  "  Grace  Church."  The 
Clarks  were  among  the  first  settlers  beyond  the  Chestnut 
Mountains. 

"  10th  8  mo.,  1754.  Friends  at  South  River  in  Albe- 
marle County  petition  that  they  may  have  a  Meeting  estab- 
lished among  them."  It  was  granted,  and  on  "  12th  10 
mo.,  1754,  Bowlen  and  Edward  Clark  were  appointed  Over- 
seers of  the  week  day  Meeting  at  South  River."  This 
Meeting  was  south  of  the  river  (some  three  or  four  miles 
southward  of  the  present  Lynchburg)  on  Lynch's  Creek  of 
Blackwater.  It  was  then  in  Albemarle,  but  after  January 
1  following,  in  old  Bedford  (now  Campbell)  County.  It 
was  located  on  the  lands  of  Mrs.  Sarah  Lynch  (sister  of 
Bowlen  and  Edward  Clark,  the  overseers),  widow  of  Maj. 
Charles  Lynch,  the  emigrant,  sometime  Burgess  from  Albe- 
marle, for  whom  Lynch's  River  was  named.  He  was  not  a 
Quaker.  His  wife,  a  daughter  of  Christopher  Clark,  Sr. 
(one  of  the  first  overseers  of  Sugar  Loaf  Meeting),  joined 
the  Society  in  1750,  about  which  time  he  removed  from 
his  former  home  near  Lynch's  Ferry  on  the  Rivanna  (the 
North  Fork),  and  settled  on  his  lands  near  the  future  Lynch's 
Ferry  on  the  Fluvanna  (the  South  Fork  of  James  River), 
where  he  died  in  1753.  His  widow  qualified  as  the  execu- 
trix of  his  will  May  10,  1753,  with  John  Anthony,  William 
Cabell,  and  Joseph  Anthony  as  her  securities.     Joseph  An- 


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70  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

tliony  was  her  brother-in-law.  Her  son,  John  Lynch,  then 
about  fourteen  years  old,  was  afterwards  the  founder  of  the 
city  of  Lynchburg. 

In  1756,  a  Meeting  was  established  on  Goose  Creek  of 
Staunton  or  Stanton  River  in  Bedford.  Owing  to  "the 
Indians  being  troublesome,"  it  was  abandoned  in  1758,  but 
reestablished  in  1760. 

[This  river  may  have  been  named  for  a  Quaker,  as 
Staunton  or  Stanton  was  a  Quaker  name,  from  one  of 
whom  the  Hon.  Edwin  M.  Stanton,  Secretary  of  War  under 
President  Lincoln,  descended.  Hon.  Edward  Bates,  Attor- 
ney-General, was  also  partly  of  Quaker  origin,  as  was  Presi- 
dent Lincoln  himself.  And  Hon.  James  Speed  (his  other 
Attorney-General)  descended  from  both  Col.  Joshua  Fry 
and  Dr.  Thomas  Walker,  of  Albemarle.] 

It  is  not  necessary  to  follow  these  Meetings  any  farther 
to  the  west.  They  had  more  or  less  constant  intercourse 
with  Philadelphia ;  with  "  The  Yearly  Meeting  at  Nanse- 
mond,"  "  The  Yearly  Meeting  on  the  Eastern  Shore  of 
Maryland,"  and  other  Yearly  Meetings  ;  with  "  The  Quar- 
terly Meeting  at  White  Oak  Swamp  in  Henrico,"  "  The 
Western  Quarterly  Meeting,"  etc. ;  with  other  monthly 
Meetings  in  Virginia,  and  with  about  a  dozen  in  North  and 
South  Carolina.  And,  at  a  later  day,  with  "  Cincinnati," 
"  Short  Creek,"  and  other  Meetings  in  Ohio. 

The  Quakers  were  sober  and  industrious.  Many  of  them 
were  wealthy,  —  the  Adamses,  Clarks,  Cobbs,  Davises, 
Lynches,  Pleasants,  Terrells,  and  many  others.  They  were 
nearly  or  remotely  connected  by  blood  or  by  marriage  with 
many  of  the  leading  families  of  the  Established  Church,  — 
Bates,  Cary,  Cabell,  Fleming,  Harrison,  Jefferson,  Jordan, 
Randolph,  Venables,  Woodson,  and  hundreds  of  others. 

Their  influence  in  the  foundation  of  Piedmont,  Va.,  and 
on  its  future,  was  decided.  Every  year,  on  the  record  of 
every  Quaker  meeting-house,  there  was  placed  under  the 
heading  of  "Fi'ieiids'  Sufferings,^'  a  statement  of  the  various 
amounts  of  the  enforced  payments  made  by  each  one  of 


IN  AMERICA  71 

them  to  "  Priests'  wages,"  to  "  Church-rates,  so-called,^^  etc. 
It  was  more  that  they  were  opposing  the  existing  laws  than 
that  the  law  was  against  them ;  but  it  is  easy  to  make  taxes 
unpopular,  and  their  continual  practical  protests  against 
these  taxes  were  very  instrumental  in  bringing  on  "  the 
Revolutionary  spirit."  On  the  other  hand,  they  were  also 
opposed  to  war,  and  as  continually  recorded  their  protests 
against  "  Militia  fines,"  etc.  And  this  fact,  after  "  the 
Revolutionary  spirit "  was  aroused,  operated  against  the  So- 
ciety. Many  of  them  were  patriots,  and  when  the  troubles 
with  the  mother  country  began,  those  of  them  who  were  for 
war  had  finally  to  go  out  of  the  Society.  Among  the  first 
of  the  leading  men  to  leave  was  Charles  Lynch,  Jr.,  one 
of  the  founders  of  South  River  Meeting,  and  clerk  of  that 
meeting  from  15th  7th  mo.,  1758,  to  about  1767,  when  he 
left  the  Society,  and  afterwards  became  a  colonel  in  the 
Revolutionary  army  and  the  founder  of  "  Lynch  law." 

The  Revolution,  however,  was  not  the  only  cause  of 
their  decline.  They  were  not  only  opposed  to  war,  but  to 
slavery  also.  Mrs.  Sarah  Terrell,  daughter  of  Maj.  Charles 
Lynch,  the  emigrant,  and  sister  of  Col.  Charles  Lynch  above- 
said,  died  10th  5  mo.,  1773.  Just  before  dying,  she  gave 
out  some  expressions  against  slavery,  which  were  afterwards 
read  at  the  Meetings  in  this  section,  producing  a  decided 
effect.  Slaves  had  often  been  set  free  by  Friends  (and 
others)  in  Virginia,  but  the  Quaker  discipline  then  in  force 
only  prohibited  buying  or  selling  slaves,  and  encouraged 
(not  required)  the  gradual  emancipation  of  those  inherited. 
"The  Last  Sayings  of  Sarah  Terrell"  were  against  slavery 
in  toto.  On  the  15th  1st  mo.,  1774,  Christopher  Johnson 
and  Micajah  Terrell  (Sarah's  cousin  and  husband)  informed 
the  South  River  Meeting  that  they  had  set  their  negroes 
free.  Among:  others  who  from  time  to  time  did  likewise 
was  Charles  Moorman,  the  father-in-law  of  Christopher 
Johnson  aforesaid,  and  also  of  John  Venable  and  Christo- 
pher Anthony.  About  1780,  the  Yearly  Meetings  finally 
adopted  the  minute,  making  the  holding  of   slaves  a  dis- 


72  THE  4:abells  and  their  kin 

missible  offense.  And  this  was  another  cause  for  the  great 
dechne  of  Friends  in  the  Southern  States.  Many  gave  up 
the  Society  and  held  on  to  their  slaves.  Many  held  on  to 
their  Society,  gave  up  their  slaves,  and  moved  north  to 
Ohio,  or  some  other  non-slaveholding  State.  Thus  Quakers 
almost  disappeared  from  this  section.  And  thus  this  sec- 
tion, which  sent  so  many  emigrants  to  the  country  south  of 
the  Ohio,  sent  many  north  of  the  Ohio  also. 

It  has  been  said  of  the  Friends  :  "  Whether  we  regard 
them  as  defenders  of  the  liberties  of  the  people,  as  opposers 
of  slavery,  of  oaths  and  tithes,  of  the  abomination  of  war,' 
the  cruel  treatment  of  the  aborigines,  etc.,  we  find  them 
everj'where  in  advance  of  their  contemporaries." 

Patrick  Henry,  the  advocate  of  the  vestries  in  the  Par- 
sons' Cause,  was  called  by  some  "  a  real  half  Quaker." 
One  of  the  churches  of  Rev.  James  Maury,  a  plaintiff  in 
this  cause,  was  in  the  present  county  of  Albemarle,  on  the 
south  side  of  the  Southwest  Mountain.  "  The  Sugar  Loaf 
Mountain  "  meeting-house  was  on  the  north  side  of  the 
same  mountain.  When  readinof'  the  Declaration  of  Inde- 
pendence,  it  should  be  remembered  that  Jefferson  was 
brought  up  in  the  midst  of  Friends,  and  that  many  of  his 
first  cousins  were  members  of  that  Society.  In  brief,  if  we 
wish  to  arrive  at  correct  conclusions  in  the  premises,  it  is 
necessary  to  consider  the  Quakers,  as  well  as  other  denomi- 
nations, and  the  multitude  of  others  of  no  denomination. 

None  of  the  Cabells  were  members  of  the  Society,  but 
many  of  their  kin  were,  and  this  is  my  special  reason  for 
calling  especial  attention  to  the  Quakers  in  this  book. 

Dr.  William  *  and  Elizabeth  Burks  Cabell  had  issue :  — 
I.     i.  Mary  2  Cabell. 
IT.    ii.  WilHam  2  Cabell. 

III.  iii.  Joseph^  Cabell. 

IV.  iv.  John  2  Cabell. 

V.  George  "  Cabell,  d.  young. 
V.  vi.  Nicholas  =  Cabell. 


PART  III. 

THE  FOUNDER'S  CHILDREN  AND  THOSE  ALLIED 
TO  THEM  BY  MARRIAGE,  WITH  MUCH  OF  THE 
HISTORY  OF  THE  UPPER  VALLEY  OF  JAMES 
RIVER  (1750-1800),  ESPECIALLY  DURING  THE 
REVOLUTION. 

"  The  present  is  founded  on  the  past,  and  is  inseparably  connected  with  it ;  neither 
can  it  be  properly  understood  or  fully  appreciated,  and  certainly  no  idea  of  the  prog- 
ress of  civilization  can  be  arrived  at,  unless  there  is  an  intimate  acquaintance  with 
the  history  of  the  past."  Batty. 

"  'T  is  opportune  to  look  back  upon  old  times,  and  contemplate  our  forefathers. 
Great  examples  grow  thin,  and  to  be  fetched  from  the  passed  world." 

Sir  Thojias  Browne. 

I.     MARY^    CABELL    HORSLEY,    OF    "CENTRE    HILL." 

I.  Mary  ^  Cabell,  the  only  daughter  of  the  old  doctor, 
was  born  February  2,  1726  (0.  S.),  that  is  February  13, 
1727,  present  style.  I  know  nothmg  of  her  childhood, 
save  the  fact  that  she  could  read  and  write  prior  to  1737. 

On  May  15,  1739,  her  mother  wrote  to  her  father,  who 
was  then  in  England,  asking  him  to  send  his  daughter  "  a 
prayer-book,  one  red  silk  petticoat,  a  very  good  broad  silver- 
laced  hat  and  hat  band,  one  pair  of  stays  (17  inches  round 
the  waist),  two  pair  fine  shoes,  1  dozen  pair  fine  stockings, 
1  hoop  petticoat,  1  pair  ear-rings,  1  pr  clasps,  3  pr.  silver 
buttons  set  with  stones,  1  suit  of  head  clothes,  4  fine  hand- 
kerchiefs and  ruffles  suitable,  a  very  handsome  knot  and 
girdle,  and  a  fine  cloak  and  short  apron." 

I  once  saw  a  letter  from  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Kennon  to  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  Cabell  respecting  her  daughter,  who  was  then  on 
a  visit  to  Mrs.  Kennon,  in  which  Miss  Mary  was  very  highly 
spoken  of. 


74  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

In  her  youth  and  early  womanhood  she  was  celebrated  in 
this  region  as  a  horsewoman,  and  her  descendants  preserve 
many  anecdotes  of  her  fearless  riding,  swimming  streams 
on  horseback,  etc.  She  married  prior  to  April  3,  1744 
(the  exact  date  is  not  known  to  me),  WiUiam  Horsley,  who 
had  been  a  tutor  in  Dr.  Cabell's  family,  and  probably  was 
still  holding  this  position  at  the  time  of  his  marriage. 

It  is  said  that  the  old  doctor  opposed  the  union,  and  that 
it  was  "  a  runaway  match,"  in  w  hich  Miss  Cabell's  fearless 
riding  was  put  to  the  test ;  but  I  doubt  this  tradition,  be- 
cause the  fathers  in  those  days  were  not  apt  to  forget  such 
acts  of  disobedience,  and  it  is  certain  that  there  was  no 
estrangement  between  the  two  families.  In  fact,  Mrs.  Hors- 
ley lived  with  her  father  for  several  years  after  her  mar- 
riage, although  her  husband  had  lands  of  his  own  in  Han- 
over and  Goochland.  They  afterwards  lived  at  "  Centre 
Hill,"  the  estate  on  which  the  present  Gladstone  station, 
C.  &  0.  R.  R.,  is  built.  Dr.  Cabell  gave  this  tract  to  kis 
daughter,  but  having  failed  to  give  her  a  title  during  her 
life,  he  gave  her  children  a  deed  to  the  lands  on  April  30, 
1763,  after  the  death  of  their  parents.  William  Horsley 
made  his  will  June  24,  1760 ;  his  wdfe  was  then  dead ;  he 
named  her  brothers,  William  and  Joseph  Cabell,  as  his 
executors.  His  will  was  recorded  in  Albemarle  court,  July 
10,  1760.  He  was  (a  brother  of  Roland  Horsley,  of  Han- 
over, and  of  Fanny  Horsley,  who  married  in  1739  Richard 
Burks,  a  brother  of  Mrs.  Dr.  Cabell,  and)  a  son  of  Robert 
Horsley,  of  St.  Paul's  Parish,  Hanover,  who  was  granted 
lands  on  the  north  side  of  the  Rivanna  River  as  early  as 
September  17,  1731,  and  who  died  in  1734.  It  is  tra- 
ditional that  Robert  Horsley  and  his  family  came  from 
England  with  Dr.  Cabell,  and  this  may  be  so,  because  the 
Horsley  family  had  been  long  seated  in  AViltshire,  and  I 
have  evidence  that  the  doctor  and  himself  were  friends 
and  acquaintances  as  early  as  1730.  But  as  he  was  settled 
in  Hanover,  and  as  the  records  of  that  county  have  been 
destroyed,  I  have  made  no  effort  to  "  trace  him  back."     It 


THE  FOUNDER'S  CHILDREN  75 

may  be  that  he  was  descended  from  the  Robert  Horsley 
who  patented  lands  in  Northumberland  County,  October  6, 
1655. 

I.  Mrs.  Mary^  Cabell  Horsley  had  six  children,  but  two 
of  them  died  in  infancy  prior  to  June,  1760.  The  sur- 
vivinof  children  were  :  — 

6.  i.  William  ^  Horsley. 

7.  ii.  Robert  Horsley. 

8.  iii.  EHzabeth  Horsley. 

9.  iv.  John  Horsley. 

II.    COL.    WILLIAM^    CABELL    THE    ELDER,    OF    UNION     HILL, 
NELSON    COUNTY,    VIRGINIA. 

II.  William  2  Cabell  was  born  March  13,  1730  (present 
style),  probably  near  Dover,  on  Licking-Hole  Creek,  in 
Goochland  County,  Virginia.  Almost  the  only  record  of  his 
youth  is  preserved  in  letters  between  his  parents  written 
during  his  father's  absence  in  England,  1735—1741.  These 
letters  prove  that  the  education  of  their  children  was  a  sub- 
ject of  continual  solicitude  to  his  parents,  who,  having 
cast  their  fortunes  in  the  frontier  forest  of  a  new  world, 
must  have  found  many  impediments  thereto,  which,  how- 
ever, were  all  overcome,  and  Dr.  Cabell  lived  to  see  every 
one  of  his  sons  occupy  honorable  positions  in  society  and 
become  the  foremost  men  of  their  section. 

When  William  was  eight  years  old,  he  "  read  well  and  had 
commenced  learning  to  write ; "  and  his  father  sent  him 
from  England  a  prayer-book,  a  Bible,  and  a  small  gun.  I 
have  no  positive  source  to  draw  upon  regarding  him  from 
1711  to  1749,  but  it  is  traditional  that  his  education  was 
completed  at  William  and  Mary  College.  On  January  25, 
1749,  the  Rev.  Robert  Rose  in  his  diary  mentions  spending 
the  niofht  with  him  at  Mr.  John  Hunter's.  In  December, 
1749,  he  began  to  assist  his  father  with  his  surveying  busi- 
ness, and  continued  to  do  so  from  time  to  time  until  his 
father  quit  the  business. 

Soon  after  becoming  of  age,  in  1751,  he  was  appointed 


76  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

a  vestryman  of  St.  Anne's  Parish,  Albemarle  County,  and 
so  continued  until  1761.  From  a  reference  in  his  papers  I 
infer  that  he  was  appointed  a  captain  of  militia  about  the 
same  time.  On  September  20,  1751,  his  father  paid  John 
Hunter  twenty  pistoles  "  for  WilKam  and  Joseph  Cabell's 
having  the  benefit  of  the  Sheriff's  Office  on  the  north  side 
of  the  Fluvanna  River  in  the  County  of  Albemarle  during 
Capt  Daniel's  sheriffdom."  Capt.  James  Daniel  was  the 
sheriff  1751-1753,  and  William  and  his  brother  Joseph  had 
charge  of  the  business  on  the  north  side  of  the  river  in  the 
present  counties  of  Fluvanna,  Albemarle,  Nelson,  and  Am- 
herst. This  manner  of  farming  out  the  office  to  young 
men  was  customary  at  the  time,  and  it  furnished  them  with 
a  good  practical  basis  for  business  on  which  to  begin  life. 
They  were  generally  called  second  sheriffs. 

I  find  receipts  for  horses  and  negroes  purchased  in  1752, 
and  sufficient  memoranda  to  show  that  he  had  commenced 
farming  on  his  own  account  at  that  time.  I  will  give  one 
of  these :  "  Rec'd  of  Mr.  Wm.  Cabell  Jr.  £37  10  0  current 
on  acct,  and  in  full  of  a  Negro  boy  sold  him  by  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Hall.  9th  Novr  1752.  Wm.  Megginson."  The  horses 
purchased  were  all  branded  with  marks,  described  in  the 
bills  of  sale.  He  was  appointed  major  of  Albemarle  militia 
prior  to  September  10,  1753.  He  was  also  an  assistant  sur- 
veyor to  Col.  Joshua  Fry  in  1753,  and  did  a  great  deal  of 
work  in  that  line  in  the  fall  of  that  year.  He  again  qualified 
as  an  assistant  surveyor  of  Albemarle  in  February,  1754. 

"  The  French  and  Indian  War "  had  begun,  the  fron- 
tiers of  Virginia  were  threatened,  and  on  February  14, 
1754,  the  House  of  Burgesses  made  preparations  for  meet- 
ing the  enemy.  On  the  19th,  Gov.  Dinwiddie  issued  a 
proclamation  for  encouraging  men  to  enlist  in  the  service  of 
the  crown  for  the  security  of  the  colony.  I  have  the  names 
of  sixty-one  soldiers  who  enhsted  under  this  proclamation. 
About  this  time  Maj.  William  Cabell  raised  a  troop  of  horse 
for  actual  service,  and  at  February  court  (second  Thurs- 
day), 1754,  he  "  made  oath  to  his  Captain's  commission  of 


THE  FOUNDER'S   CHILDREN  77 

a  Troop."  February  25,  the  governor  commissioned  Col. 
Joshua  Fry  (the  surveyor  of  Albemarle)  commander-in-chief 
of  the  forces  sent  from  Virginia  "  to  erect  and  maintain  a 
fort  at  the  Monongahela  and  Ohio  rivers."  George  Wash- 
ington, another  surveyor,  was  second  in  command.  Col. 
Fry  left  Albemarle,  to  take  command  of  these  forces,  in 
March  or  April,  and  it  is  traditional  that  the  troop  of  his 
assistant  surveyor  (William  Cabell,  Jr.)  went  with  him  ;  but 
I  have  no  positive  evidence  of  it.  Col.  Fry  died  in  May. 
The  Battle  of  the  Meadows  was  fought  July  3.  Soon  after 
this  the  governor  divided  Virginia  into  four  districts  and 
"appointed  an  Adjutant  to  each,  to  teach  the  Officers  and 
men  the  Art  of  War,  and  Exercise  of  their  Arms."  No- 
vember 22,  1754,  Thomas  Walker  was  appointed  adjutant 
of  the  frontier  counties.  On  July  9,  1755,  Braddock  was 
defeated,  and  on  the  same  day  Gov.  Dinwiddie  ordered 
Peter  Jefferson,  who  had  succeeded  Fry  as  county  lieuten- 
ant, to  furnish  men  for  Col.  Patton's  ranger  company,  etc. 
Maj.  William  Cabell  became  a  lieutenant-colonel  of  Albe- 
marle militia  about  this  time,  and  served  as  such  until  1760, 
when  he  was  made  colonel.  He  was  also  a  justice  of  the 
peace,  and  did  his  duty  both  in  his  military  and  civil  capa- 
city in  those  trying  times  on  our  frontiers. 

He  married,  early  in  1756,  Margaret,  daughter  of  Col. 
Samuel  Jordan  by  his  first  wife,  Ruth  Meredith.  The  fol- 
lowing account  of  his  courtship  was  written  years  ago  by 
one  of  his  of-randdaug-hters  :  — 

"  ^^y  grandfather  was  a  young  man  of  great  promise  and 
worth.  When  he  commenced  visiting  Col.  Jordan's  family, 
it  caused  quite  a  sensation  among  the  daughters  of  the 
house.  One  of  the  older  sisters  thought  that  she  was  the 
attraction,  and  was  very  peremptory  in  keeping  her  sister 
Margaret,  who  was  very  young,  in  the  background.  On 
one  of  his  visits,  he  was  pleased  with  some  very  nice 
mince-pies  (of  which  he  was  very  fond),  and  Mrs.  Jordan 
told  him  ^  the  pastry  was  made  by  her  step-daughter  Mar- 
garet, whom  he  had  not  yet  seen.'     In  those  days,  it  was 


78  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR   KIN 

customary  to  ask  the  father's  permission  before  addressing 
his  daughter ;  and  he  soon  after  astonished  the  family  by 
asking  Col.  Jordan  for  permission  to  address  his  daughter 
Margaret  —  the  elegant  pastry-maker,  whom,  it  was  sup- 
posed, he  had  not  seen.  He  had  managed,  however,  to  get  a 
glimpse  of  her  before  asking  for  permission  to  address  her. 
This  Cinderella-like  tale,  whether  strictly  true  or  not,  always 
invested  my  grandmother  with  a  peculiar  interest  to  me." 

Col.  Cabell  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  from 
Albemarle  from  1757  to  1761. 

In  1758,  sixty  persons  were  murdered  by  the  Indians  in 
the  county  of  Augusta.  I  know  that  the  county  of  Albe- 
marle furnished  soldiers  to  this  war,  and  that  is  about  all. 
The  part  taken  by  them  is  almost  left  blank  in  our  state 
histories,  and,  prior  to  1769,  the  Cabell  papers  are  mainly 
confined  to  "  pounds  and  pence,"  business  papers,  etc. 

In  1758,  Col.  Cabell  made  sundry  payments  to  the  militia 
of  the  county  of  Albemarle,  under  the  act  of  September, 
"for  the  defence  of  the  Frontiers  of  this  Colony  "  (Hening's 
Statutes  at  Large,  vol.  vii.  pp.  171,  202).  And  the  same 
House  of  Burgesses  passed  an  act  appointing  "  William 
Cabell,  Junior,  John  Nicholas,  and  Samuel  Jordan,  gentle- 
men, commissioners  for  Albemarle  to  examine  and  state  the 
accounts  of  provisions,  and  the  pay  of  the  militia,  and  of 
the  damages  done  the  inhabitants  of  this  colony  by  the 
Cherokee  and  Catawba  Indians." 

October  11,  1760,  he  was  appointed  colonel  of  the  militia 
for  the  county  of  Albemarle  by  Gov.  Francis  Fauquier. 

October  30,  1760,  himself  and  other  burgesses  (George 
Washington  among  the  number),  and  others,  subscribed  to 
the  premium  to  be  given  for  the  encouragement  of  making 
wine  and  silk  in  the  colony.  The  subscriptions  were  pay- 
able every  year,  for  eight  years,  on  the  30th  of  October. 

February  14,  1761.  "  Wm.  Cabbie,  Jr.,  was  granted 
460  acres  in  Brunswick  Co.,  Va.,  and  prior  to  1762  he  was 
granted  1243  acres  additional."  Was  this  Col.  William 
Cabell,  Jr.  ? 


THE  FOUNDER'S   CHILDREN  79 

At  the  first  Amherst  court,  on  the  1st  day  of  June,  1761, 
Col.  WilHam  Cabell  qualified  as  the  first  presiding  magis- 
trate (the  chief  executive  office) ;  as  the  first  county- 
lieutenant  (the  chief  military  office) ;  as  the  first  county  sur- 
veyor (one  of  the  most  (if  not  the  most)  important  offices  in 
a  new  country) ;  and  as  the  first  coroner  of  the  county. 
He  continued  to  hold  these  offices  until  1775.  He  was 
also  a  burgess  (the  chief  legislative  office)  from  Amherst 
County  from  1761  to  1775 ;  a  churchwarden  (an  impor- 
tant secular  and  civil  office),  and  vestryman  of  Amherst 
Parish  from  1761  to  1775.  He  was  appointed  surveyor 
by  William  and  Mary  College.  He  was  appointed  to  some 
of  the  other  offices  by  the  governor,  and  was  elected  to 
others  by  the  people.  He  held  all  of  the  leading  offices 
of  Amherst  County  during  the  colonial  era,  from  its  first 
formation  in  1761  to  the  Revolution  of  1775.  Of  course 
he  could  not  perform  all  the  work,  etc.,  of  so  many  offices ; 
but  it  was  all  done  by  himself,  or  by  his  agents,  and  assist- 
ants or  deputies,  under  instructions  from  him. 

The  first  court  ordered  him  to  run  the  dividing-  line  be- 
tween  Amherst  and  Albemarle.  The  line  was  completed  on 
June  20  folloAving.  It  was,  as  now,  up  Rockfish  to  the 
mouth  of  Green  Creek ;  thence  north  23  degrees,  30  min- 
utes west,  21  miles  and  296  poles  to  the  end,  on  the  top 
of  the  Blue  Ridge  Mountains.  The  county  allowed  the 
surveyor  for  running  this  line,  "  and  for  expenses  of  the 
same  to  chain-carriers,  etc.,  £3  lis.  8d.  and  384  lbs.  of 
tobacco.  The  surveyor's  fee  was  1596  lbs.  gross  tobacco 
(equal  to  1117  lbs.  net),  the  sixth  part  of  which  (186  lbs.) 
was  paid  to  John  Blair,  Junr.,  the  bursar  for  William  and 
Mary  College,  rated  at  16s.  8d.  per  100." 

The  site  for  the  court  house  was  chosen  by  the  magis- 
trates in  June,  1761,  and  it  was  located  on  land  belonging 
to  Col.  Lunsford  Lomax,  which  had  been  by  him  mortgaged 
to  the  Hon.  Philip  Grymes,  Esq.,  deceased,  and  which  was 
finally  bought  by  Col.  William  Cabell,  who  at  that  time 
(June,    1761)    offered    to   build    the   same.     "  The   place 


80  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

chosen  was  approved  of  by  the  Governor  and  Council,  pro- 
vided that  the  court  house  be  built  at  the  expense  of  the 
county ;  for  they  cannot  agree  to  have  it  done  at  the  costs 
of  a  private  person,  as  it  would  prove  an  obstacle  to  re- 
moving it,  should  the  place  now  proposed  be  hereafter 
adjudged  inconvenient." 

At  March  court,  1762,  the  first  grand  jury  was  sum- 
moned for  old  Amherst  County. 

In  September,  1762,  William  Cabell,  Jr.,  and  Cornelius 
Thomas,  churchwardens,  purchased  from  Aaron  Higgin- 
botham  204  acres  of  land  at  .£120,  and  from  Carter  Brax- 
ton 50  acres  for  five  pounds,  —  254  acres  in  all,  at  <£125, — 
as  and  for  a  o-lebe  for  Amherst  Parish.  Rev.  Ichabod 
Camp  was  the  first  minister  of  the  parish.  He  was  living 
on  this  glebe  in  1763,  which  was  situated  near  the  present 
village  of  New  Glasgow.  He  baptized  Col.  Cabell's  chil- 
dren. In  1778,  he  went  West  with  George  Rogers  Clark, 
and  was  the  first  Episcopalian  minister  to  officiate  as  such 
on  the  banks  of  the  Mississippi.  His  granddaughter,  Su- 
sanna Marguerite  de  Reilhe,  married  Alexander  McNair, 
the  first  governor  of  Missouri. 

On  February  16,  1761,  old  Dr.  Cabell  gave  bond  in 
£20,000  to  his  sons  Will  and  Joe  to  convey,  or  bequeath 
by  will,  to  them  their  share  of  land.  Prior  to  1763,  he 
had  not  given  his  son  William  any  land,  but  on  the  2d  of 
May  in  that  year,  he  made  him  a  deed  to  "  1785  acres  of 
land  in  Amherst  County  on  the  north  side  and  adjoining 
the  Fluvanna  River,  from  just  above  the  Swift  Islands 
[Midway  station,  C.  &  0.  R.  R.]  to  the  mouth  of  Tye 
River  [Norwood  station,  C.  &  0.  R.  R.],  which  is  part  of  a 
tract  of  4800  acres  granted  my  father  by  patent  bearing 
date  on  the  12th  day  of  September,  1738,"  the  first  grant 
in  the  county.  Some  of  this  land  is  still  owned  by  his 
descendants,  but  most  of  it  has  passed  into  the  hands  of 
others.  Although  his  father  did  not  make  him  a  deed  to 
the  tract  until  1763,  he  had  occupied  the  land  from  about 
1752.     On  August  20,  1760,  he  had  patented  460  acres 


FRA  NCIS  FA  U^UJE R,  Efq;  HisMajefty's 
Lieutenant-Governor,  and  Commander  in  Chief  of  the 
Colony  and  Dominion  of  VIRGINIA. 


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By  Virtue  of  the  Authority  and  Power.ta  me^|-,tf.y^Mi|rVftv.^.as  Commander  in  C^Cye^  i^X  this  His  Colony  and 
,  Dominion,   I,  repoiing  fpccial  Truft  and  C<M(iaS75*ioii^  Loyalty,   Courage  and  Conduft,  do  hereby  conftitute 
and  appoint  you  the  laid  y/^/^A-^^r3  ^jeif^^  >      ,-.  ^t  be  Lieutenant  ol  the  County  of   ^^^'irr^.^.^z^-^ 

and  Chief  Commander  of  all  His  Majefty's  Militia,  jHorfe  inji.Fo*,  in  the  laid  County  o'i ^^rr^.^'Z*^'^ — . . 

And  I  do  give  unto  you  full  Power  and  Authorityi^o  CoJma^d,  Levy,  Arm,  and  Mufter,  all  Perfons  which  are  or 
Ihall  be  liable  to  be  levied  and  lifted  in  the  faid  CouKy.  i^^tj^hercfore  carefully  and  diligently  to  difcharge  the  Duty 
of  Lieutenant  and  Chief  Commander  of  the  Militia,'  ly  doiigJ(&d  performing  all,  and  all  Manner  of  Things  thereunto 
belonging,  particularly  by  taking  Care  that  the  faii  Wilitiajj.b^(t'<ill  provided  with  Arms  and  Ammunition  as  the  Law 
of  this  Colony  diredls :  And  that  all  OiBcers  and  Sbldiers  Be  (laji  exercifed  and  kept  in  good  Order  and  Difcipline. 
And  in  Cafe  of  any  fudden  Diflurbance  or  Invafion,  I  do  Bken'il  impower  you  to  raife,  order,  and  march  all,  or  fuch 
Part  of  the  faid  Militia,  as  to  you  fliall  fecm  meet,  for  rafting  md  lubduing  the  Enemy :  And  I  do  hereby  command 
all  the  Officers  and  Soldiers  of  His  Majefty's  Militi£»,in  thafaid  ',>ounty,  to  obey  you  as  their  Lieutenant,  or  Chief 
Commander ;  and  you  are  to  obferve  and  follow  fu'h  Oilers  iB'O-  Direftions,  from  Time  to  Time,  as  you  fliall  receive 
from  me,  or  the  Commander  in  Chief  of  tliis  Colw,  foktbc  ^.'-ime  being,  or  from  any  other  your  fuperior  Officer, 


according  to  the  Rules  and  Difcipline  of  M'ar 

GIVEN  under  my  Hand,  aiidCtte: 
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^-^Year  of  his  Majefty's  Reign,  Annoque  Domini  1 7^/. 


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THE  FOUNDER'S   CHILDREN  81 

"  on  both  sides  of  Findlay's  Creek,  joining  the  hack  Hnes  " 
of  the  above  tract,  and  near  the  middle  of  it.  The  1785- 
acre  tract  was  all  low  grounds  ;  the  460  acres  extended 
back  to  the  hisfh  land.  These  two  tracts  formed  the  basis 
for  the  old  Union  Hill  estate.  His  residence  was  located 
on  the  high  land  tract.  He  added  579  acres  in  1764,  and 
continued  to  add  thereto  until  it  became  a  princely  pos- 
session. 

The  first  land  that  he  really  owned  was  a  tract  of  2700 
acres  on  the  east  side  of  the  Tobacco  Row  Mountains, 
granted  to  him  by  the  crown  on  December  6,  1753,  for 
the  sum  of  £12  15s.  cash,  a  yearly  quit-rent  of  one  shilling 
on  every  fifty  acres  or  fraction  thereof,  "  payable  on  the 
feast  of  Saint  Michael  the  Arch-Angel,"  and  on  condition 
that  three  acres  of  every  fifty  should  be  cultivated  and 
improved  within  three  years  from  the  day  of  the  grant. 
Failing  in  either  of  these  contracts,  the  land  would  revert 
to  the  crown.  These  were  also  the  terms  of  Dr.  Wilham 
Cabell's  first  grant  in  1738,  and  of  all  of  the  old  grants  in 
this  reofion. 

October  court,  1763.  The  county  surveyor  was  ordered 
to  survey  and  lay  off  ten  acres  of  land,  to  include  the  court 
house  and  prison,  as  bounds  for  debtors.  Col.  Cabell  was 
in  his  place  as  presiding  justice  and  chairman  of  his  Ma- 
jesty's commission  of  Oyer  and  Terminer  for  the  county. 
The  grand  jury  fined  sundry  persons  for  swearing  rash 
oaths  at  the  rate  of  five  shillings  per  oath. 

In  January,  1764,  he  was  appointed  by  act  of  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly  one  of  the  commissioners  for  the  counties  of 
Augusta,  Louisa,  Orange,  Albemarle,  Amherst,  Bedford, 
and  Halifax,  to  examine  and  state  the  accounts  of  the 
militia  lately  ordered  into  actual  service  against  the  Indians. 
In  October  following,  he  was  appointed  to  the  same  pur- 
pose for  the  counties  of  Augusta,  Bedford,  Halifax,  and 
Amherst.  And  the  same  General  Assembly  (October, 
1764)  also  appointed  him  one  of  the  trustees  to  solicit  and 
receive  subscriptions  for  clearing  the  Great  Falls  of  James 
River. 


82  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

The  disputes  between  the  colonies  and  England  became 
pronounced  about  the  year  1763.  But  the  Stamp  Act, 
which  became  a  law  on  the  22d  of  March,  1765,  although 
it  was  not  to  go  into  effect  until  the  1st  of  November  fol- 
lowing, was  possibly  the  first  real  overt  act  on  the  part  of 
the  mother  country. 

The  House  of  Burgesses  met  May  1,  1765.  Col.  Wil- 
liam Cabell  was  a  member  from  old  Amherst.  "  The 
Stamp  Act  and  the  scheme  for  taxing  America  by  the  Brit- 
ish Parliament "  reached  Virginia  during  the  session  and 
"  caused  a  great  commotion."  On  May  29,  Patrick  Henry 
offered  his  famous  resolutions ;  they  passed  the  next  day, 
and  on  June  1  the  governor  dissolved  the  House. 

The  colonial  courts  "  refused  to  sanction  the  Act  by  sit- 
ting." The  act  was  repealed  in  March,  1766,  and  notice 
of  the  repeal  reached  this  country  in  May,  1766.  There 
was  no  court  held  in  Amherst  from  November,  1765,  to 
June,  1766.  So  the  magistrates  of  Amherst  disapproved  of 
the  act,  and  William  Cabell  was  the  presiding  magistrate. 
Howe,  in  his  "  Historical  Collections  of  Virginia,"  says  : 
"  After  the  passage  of  Henry's  resolutions  the  Governor 
dissolved  the  Assembly,  but  the  people  reelected  the  friends 
and  excluded  the  opposers  of  the  resolutions."  William 
Cabell  was  reelected  by  the  people.  Mr.  Jefferson  said  that 
"  the  members  from  the  upper  counties  invariably  supported 
Mr.  Henry  in  his  revolutionary  measures."  Mr.  Jefferson 
says :  "  Till  the  beginning  of  our  revolutionary  disputes  w^e 
had  but  one  press  in  Virginia,  and  that  having  the  whole 
business  of  the  government,  and  no  competitor  for  public 
favor,  nothing  disagreeable  to  the  governor  could  find  its 
way  into  it.  We  procured  Rind  to  come  from  Maryland 
to  publish  a  free  paper,  .  .  .  open  to  all  parties  but  influ- 
enced by  none."  Col.  William  Cabell  declined  taking  the 
government  organ  in  1764 ;  but  he  took  Rind's  "  Virginia 
Gazette  "  from  its  first  issue.  May  16,  1766,  and  he  may 
have  been  one  of  those  whom  Jefferson  alludes  to  as  "  we," 
who  "  procured  Rind  to  come,"  etc.     We  can  judge  a  man's 


THE  FOUNDER'S  CHILDREN  83 

politics  very  well  by  the  politics  of  the  paper  which  he 
subscribes  to. 

Although  I  have  no  actual  record  of  the  fact,  yet  for  the 
foregoing  reasons  I  am  very  sure  that  Col.  William  Cabell 
supported  Henry's  resolutions ;  but  I  do  not  think  that  he 
had  any  idea  of  an  actual  rebellion  against  Great  Britain  at 
this  early  date.  And  after  the  repeal  of  the  Stamp  Act, 
there  is  evidence  that  he  "  had  strong  hopes  that  the  griev- 
ances of  the  Colonies  would  be  redressed  and  the  dispute 
adjusted." 

The  first  session  of  the  next  House  of  Burgesses  began 
on  November  6,  1766,  and  Col.  William  Cabell  was  again 
one  of  the  members  from  old  Amherst.  This  House  ap- 
pointed Cols.  William  and  Joseph  Cabell  and  others,  trus- 
tees for  winding  up  the  estates  of  Col.  John  Chiswell  and 
Speaker  John  Robinson.  The  latter  estate  was  very  com- 
plicated, and  they  were  still  fulfilling  this  trust  so  late  as 
May,  1791. 

On  December  12,  1766,  Col.  Peter  Randolph,  of  the 
Council,  the  escheator  for  the  colony  of  Virginia,  appointed 
Col.  William  Cabell  his  deputy-escheator  for  the  counties  of 
Albemarle,  Amherst,  Buckingham  and  Bedford.  It  was 
necessary,  I  suppose,  for  this  office  to  be  filled  by  a  friend 
to  the  crown.     Col.  Cabell  declined  the  office. 

Mr.  Grigsby  alludes  to  his  dress  in  "  The  Virginia  Con- 
vention of  1776,"  p.  118,  note.  The  following  bill  of  arti- 
cles bought  in  England  for  him  in  1767  will  give  some  idea 
of  his  outfit  at  that  time.  The  prices  are  in  English,  not 
Virginia,  money :  — 

sterling. 
£         S.         d. 

1  pr.  single  channel'd  boots,  with  straps,  etc.  12  6 

1  "    strong-  buckskin  breeches  1    10  0 

1  man's  best  beaver  hat  110 

2  pr.  men's  best  buckskin  gloves  @  5/-.  10  0 
1  "  neat  fashionable  chain  silver  spurs,  6  oz.  2  10  0 
1  best  silver  button  twig  whip  6  0 
1  man's  saddle,  best,  with  all  tackle  1    15  0 


12 

0 

4 

6 

2 

0 

84  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

1  fine  Mazarine  blue  cloth  housing,  laced,  etc. 

1  strong  double  rein'd  bridle  front  lapt. 

1  chair  whip  with  long  4  plat  lash,  etc. 

6  prs.   men's  fine  silk  hose,  black,  white,  and 

gray  @  14/-.  4     4     0 

4  yds.  best  superfine  drab  cloth  @  22/-.  a  yard, 
21  dz.  worked  coat  buttons  @  18d.  per  doz, 
6  vest  buttons  at  9d.,  twist  and  silk  2/-., 
thread  3d.,  I  yd.  velvet  8/-.,  for  1  suit,  total 
cost  5     2   4i 

8  yds.  best  f  Mantua  @6 /G,  and  6  yds.  super- 
fine garnet  ingrain  cloth  @  21/-.,  3i  dz.  new 
gold  basket  coat  buttons  @  7  /  6  pr.  doz.,  5  dz. 
do.  vest  buttons  @  3  /  9  pr.  doz.  1|^  oz.  twist  @ 
2/4  pr.  oz.,  1^  oz.  silk  @  2*/ 4  pr.  oz.,  Buck- 
ram-thread Ig.,  3  pr.  straps  18d.  pr.  and  1^ 
yds.  shalloons  @  2/-.,  for  1  suit  and  1  great 
coat,  total  11    19     2 

1  pr.  men's  best  pumps  12     0 

[Also,  knee-garters,  knee-buckles,  shoe-buckles, 
etc.] 

1  chair  with  harness,  etc.,  complete  47      2      6 

The  tailor's  price  in  Virginia,  at  that  time,  for  making  a 
suit  of  clothes  was  from  fifteen  to  thirty  shillings,  and  for 
a  greatcoat  from  six  to  twelve  shillings  Virginia  currency. 

In  1767,  Peyton  Randolph,  Esq.  (the  speaker),  the  exec- 
utor of  the  will,  etc.,  of  the  Hon.  Philip  Grymes,  Esq.,  de- 
ceased, gave  Col.  William  Cabell  "  a  power  of  attorney  to 
sell  7800  acres  of  land  in  Amherst  County,  formerly  the 
property  of  Col.  Lunsford  Lomax  and  by  him  mortgaged  to 
the  late  Philip  Grymes,  Esq.  deed,  to  secure  payment  of 
.£1714  lis.  2d.  sterling."  After  the  November  session, 
1766,  the  House  of  Burgesses  was  continued  by  several 
prorogations  to  March  31,  1768,  when  the  second  session 
began. 

The  joy  in  America  over  the  repeal  of  the  Stamp  Act 


THE  FOUNDER'S   CHILDREN  85 

was  premature.  Almost  immediately  another  bill  was 
passed  by  Parliament  levying  duties  on  the  colonies,  and 
"  the  flame  of  resistance  soon  burst  forth  afresh ; "  and  for 
this  reason  Gov.  Fauquier  had  felt  that  it  was  best  to  pro- 
rogue the  House  during  1767.     The  governor  died  early  in 

1768,  and  the  aforesaid  March  session  was  convened  by 
John  Blair,  president  of  the  council  and  acting  governor. 

Col.  William  Cabell's  diary  and  most  of  his  papers  prior 
to  1769  are  missing.     I  have  his  diary  from  January  2, 

1769,  to  December  21,  1771,  complete.  In  1769,  Lord 
Botetourt,  the  new  governor  of  Virginia,  called  another  As- 
sembly. Charles  Campbell,  in  his  "  History  of  Virginia," 
says  the  Assembly  was  convened  on  the  11th  of  May,  and 
dissolved  on  the  17th.  Col.  Cabell's  diary  shows  that  he 
was  absent  from  home  from  the  1st  to  the  22d  of  May. 
The  entries  are  devoted  to  sundry  business  transactions  with 
Peterfield  Trent,  William  Grayson,  James  Buchanan,  and 
others. 

"May  12th.  Paid  Mr.  Craig  £2  16  4  in  fuU  for  my 
board,  horses  etc.  to  Saturday  morning  the  13th." 

"  May  16th.  Paid  Col.  Archibald  Cary  6/3  for  my  expense 
with  Mrs.  Todd  at  the  Rocky  Ridge  [Manchester],  for  pro- 
visions, etc.  when  we  were  viewing  the  Great  Falls."  He 
left  Williamsburg  on  the  19th,  and  on  the  20th  he  was 
at  Richmond.  "  Paid  Lewis  Ball  £8  3s.  for  carting  34 
hhds.  tobacco  to  the  inspection,  and  for  carting  my  goods  to 
Westham."  On  the  22d,  he  made  this  particular  entry : 
"  Came  home  from  the  Assembly,  which  met  on  Monday 
the  8th  of  May  and  was  dissolved  on  Wednesday  the  17th 
of  May." 

The  next  day,  the  burgesses  met  in  the  Raleigh  Tavern 
and  drew  up  "  the  Articles  of  the  Mercantile  Association." 
Col.  William  Cabell  sio^ned  these  articles,  and  he  was  so 
heartily  supported  by  his  constituents  that,  at  the  next  elec- 
tion, "  Sept.  12th  1769,  he  was  chosen  by  the  view  and  con- 
sent of  the  People,  without  polling,  there  being  no  opposi- 
tion." 


86  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

Jefferson  says  that  "  nothing  of  particular  excitement 
occurred  after  the  May  session,  1769,  until  our  session  in 
the  spring  of  1773." 

Under  December  17,  1769,  there  is  the  following  double 
entry  in  the  diary  :  — 

"  The  Assembly  met  the  8th  day  of  May  and  was  dis- 
solved the  17th.     Sat  10  days." 

"  The  Assembly  met  Tuesday  the  7th  day  of  November 
and  I  attended  'till  Sunday  the  17th  of  December,  in  all 
41  days." 

I  infer  that  he  was  thus  particular  in  repeatedly  noting 
the  time  he  had  served,  because  there  was  some  doubt 
about  the  payment  of  their  wages  to  the  burgesses.  On 
December  16,  there  is  the  following  entry :  "  Gave  Major 
David  Mason  an  order  on  the  Treasurer  for  £10  in  part  of 
my  wages  for  this  session,  which  if  received  he  is  to  repay 
me."  "  June  18th  1770,  the  Treasurer  paid  me  the  bal- 
ance of  £27  18s.  in  full  of  £37  18s.  my  wages  for  the 
May  and  November  sessions,  1769."  Thus  again  proving 
that  he  served  fifty-one  days  during  these  two  sessions,  and, 
by  his  various  entries,  that  the  session  of  May,  1769,  began 
on  the  8th  and  not  on  the  11th,  as  has  been  supposed. 

Unfortunately,  no  public  acts  of,  or  events  connected  with, 
either  Assembly  are  mentioned  in  his  diary.  In  fact,  the 
so-called  diary  is  more  of  a  day-book  or  pocket  business 
memoranda  than  a  diary.  Still,  there  are  but  few  things  in 
it  which  mio;ht  not  be  at  one  time  or  another,  or  under 
some  circumstances,  of  some  use  to  the  future  historian  of 
this  region,  or  to  those  interested  in  the  early  settlers 
thereof.  The  extracts  which  I  give  in  this  work  will  gen- 
erally have  some  especial  reference  to  the  Cabells  or  their 
kin ;  but  there  are  many  references  to  many  others  "  of 
high  or  low  degree." 

"  October  13th  1769.  Exchanged  horses  with  Col.  Carter 
Braxton  and  gave  him  46  shillings  and  three  pairs  of  shoes 
to  hootr 

"  Finished  my  limes  and  all  my  arrack  except  two  bot- 
tles." 


THE   FOUNDER'S   CHILDREN  87 

"  Octr.  14th.  Sent  the  Standard  of  Weights  and  Meas- 
ures to  Capt.  Key's  for  Gabriel  Penn." 

"  Delivered  Wm  Loving,  Dan  McBane's  survey." 

But  the  following  continuous  extract  will  give  a  better 
idea  of  its  general  character  :  — 

"  1770,  Jany.  IJf.  Looked  over  my  stock  at  Trice's  and 
counted  11  cows,  13  heifers  and  young  steers,  5  year- 
lings and  4  calves  — 11  sows,  30  barrows  and  spaded  sows 
(small)  and  40  pigs. 

"  15.  Sold  Dreadnaught  to  George  Barclay  for  ,£20. 
and  a  small  sword.  <£5.  of  which  and  the  sword  I  rec'd, 
and  if  <£13.  is  paid  me  by  the  tenth  of  June  next  it  is  to 
discharge  the  ,£15.  Swaped  with  Geo.  Barclay  my  sorrel 
mare  for  a  Roan  horse,  and  if  the  mare  brings  a  foal  he  is 
to  give  me  £5.  to  boot,  and  if  it  is  not  convenient  to  pay 
it  in  June  next  I  am  to  wait  'till  June  come  twelve  month 
—  all  in  presence  of  Major  Higginbotham. 

"  Reed  an  order  from  Charles  Tuley  to  transfer  his  entry 
on  Indian  Camp  Creek  to  Robert  Johnston,  which  through 
mistake  I  flung  into  the  fire.  Present  Majr  Higginbotham 
and  Mr.  Geo  :  Barclay. 

"  Delivered  Robert  Johnston  two  certificates  for  land 
which  was  surveyed  for  him  in  the  Fall  of  1769. 

"  16.  Delivered  Majr  Higginbotham,  Rachel  Morrison's 
receipt  from  the  Secretary's  office. 

"  17.  Sent,  by  Majr.  Higginbotham  one  of  the  late  Edi- 
tions of  the  laws  to  Capt  Meriwether  and  one  to  Alexander 
Reid  Jr.  [Major  Higginbotham  was  his  assistant  surveyor. 
Meriwether  and  Reid  were  magistrates.] 

"  19.    By  Wm.  Loving  £17.  6.  6.  in  full  of  his  acct. 

"  20.  Gave  the  following  negroes  hats,  viz  :  —  Mingo, 
Pompey,  Yellow  Will,  Tye  River  Will,  Charles,  John,  True- 
blue,  Caesar,  Roger  and  Simeon."  etc. 

Hening's  "Statutes  at  Large,"  vol.  viii.  p.  493,  states 
that  the  Assembly  of  November,  1769,  was  continued  by 
several  prorogations  to  July  11,  1771,  '*  being  the  second 
session  of  this  present  General  Assembly."     The  May  ses- 


88  THE   CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

sion,  1770,  is  not  given  by  Hening.  The  diary  shows  that 
he  left  home  for  WilHamsburg,  via  Richmond,  on  May  19, 
1770 ;  that  the  Assembly  met  on  May  23,  and  that  he 
remained  in  Williamsburg  until  after  dinner,  June  27.  He 
•does  not  give  the  day  on  which  the  Assembly  adjourned  or 
was  prorogued,  but  the  inference  is  that  it  was  on  June  26, 
because  on  June  25  there  is  the  following  entry :  — 

"  By  the  Treasurer  £23.  15  for  my  Burgess'  wages  for 
the  May  Session,  1770,"  which  shows  that  he  had  served 
about  thirty-five  days.  The  following  is  the  first  reference 
to  Washington  in  the  portion  of  the  diary  still  preserved  :  — 

"  1770.  May  31st.  Delivered  Henry  Bailey's  certificate 
and  his  discharge  to  Col.  George  Washington,  which  he 
thouirht  sufficient  to  entitle  him  and  his  brother  William 
Bailey's  heir  to  their  proportion  of  the  land  granted  by 
Govr  Dinwiddie's  proclamation." 

William  Bailey  was  killed  in  the  battle  of  "  The  Mead- 
ows," July  3,  1754. 

It  was  during  this  May  session  that  the  burgesses  and 
merchants  of  Virginia  met,  and  entered  into  the  association 
of  June  22,  1770,  which  was  signed  by  Col.  William  Cabell 
and  his  brother  Joe.  He  boarded  wdth  Thomas  Craig  from 
May  23  to  June  27,  1770,  and  I  have  Craig's  receipt  for 
the  bill.  Board  and  lodging  for  himself  three  shillings  and 
sixpence  per  day,  for  his  man  Harry  one  shilling  and  three- 
pence, and  for  his  two  horses  four  shillings,  total,  8s.  9d. 
per  day ;  but  with  the  exception  of  four  days,  there  was 
not  a  day  on  which  he  did  not  pay  extra  for  a  "  club  of 
Punch,"  or  something  of  the  sort,  either  at  dinner  or  sup- 
per, or  both ;  never  at  breakfast.  The  burgesses  were 
social  with  the  merchants. 

"  1771,  Jan'y  24.    My  nose  bled  for  the  first  time." 

"  May  26.  The  greatest  flood  in  the  river  that  has  been 
known  by  12  feet  perpendicular,  at  least,  —  it  carried  away 
almost  every  house  on  the  low  grounds,  destroyed  all  the 
orchards  —  many  people  were  drowned  —  fences  entirely 
carried  off  —  and  all  the  stacks  of  every  kind  —  and  the 


THE  FOUNDER'S   CHILDREN  89 

land  when  uncovered  with  the  water  presented  the  most 
melancholy  appearance,  everything  being  entirely  swept  off 
and  the  land  to  all  appearances  ruined." 

From  June  4  to  June  12  he  was  absent  in  Richmond 
attending  to  business  connected  with  the  flood,  —  looking 
after  the  tobacco  destroyed  in  Byrd's  and  Shockoe  ware- 
houses, etc. 

"  July  11th  the  Assembly  met." 

"July  20th.  Rec'd  o£  the  Treasurer  £11  4s.  in  full  of 
my  wages  for  the  present  session." 

"  July  23d.  Returned  home  from  the  Assembly." 

The  burgesses  were  paid  "  ten  shillings  a  day,  besides 
ferriages,  for  coming  to,  attending  at,  and  returning  from 
every  session  of  Assembly."  The  burgesses  from  Amherst 
were  allowed  "  six  days  for  coming  and  six  days  for  return- 
ing," <£6,  and  ferriages  from  four  to  five  shillings.  So  the 
Assembly  of  July,  1771,  sat  ten  days.  It  appointed  com- 
missioners to  meet  in  Richmond  on  September  1  to  review 
the  claims  of  the  people  for  damages  by  the  freshet,  etc., 
on  tobacco  stored  in  public  warehouses,  and  authorized  the 
emission  of  .£30,000  (in  paper  currency),  treasury  notes,  — 
James  River  Bank  money  as  it  is  named  on  its  face, — to 
enable  the  colony  to  give  this  relief  to  the  sufferers. 

"  The  commissioners  met  on  Thursday  the  1st  day  of 
Sept'r  in  order  to  review  the  further  claims  of  the  people." 
Col.  Cabell  was  absent  from  home  September  1  to  Septem- 
ber 7  in  Richmond  attending  this  commission.  He  was 
allowed  £254  17s.  Id.  damages. 

Col.  Cabell  made  his  last  shipment  of  tobacco  to  England 
prior  to  the  Revolution  in  July,  1771,  and  he  sent  only  four 
hogsheads  to  pay  a  small  balance  due  his  merchant  (John 
Backhouse,  of  Liverpool),  and  to  get  some  shoes  and  books, 
"By  The  John,  Captain  John  Breakhill."  Previous  to 
this  he  had  sent  from  15  to  20  hogsheads,  and  his  orders 
had  amounted  to  about  £200  sterling  per  annum.  He 
seems  always  to  have  sold  the  most  of  his  tobacco  to  the 
merchants  of  Richmond,  —  James  Buchanan,  Neil  Campbell, 


90  THE   CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

and  others.  His  orders  to  England  generally  included 
fifty  or  more  books.  I  will  give  an  extract  from  an  invoice, 
in  order  to  show  the  character  of  the  books  then  taught 
and  read  in  the  backwoods  of  old  Amherst,  and  their  prices 
in  England :  — 

£       s.         d. 

1  Phoedrus'  Tables  with  notes  2 

1  Sallust  with  notes  4 

1  Lucius  Florus  with  notes  3 

1  Terence's  Comedies  in  Usum  Delphini  5 

1  Buchanan's  Latin  Psalms  3      6 

1  TuUy's  Orations  in  Usum  Delphini  6 

1  Juvenal  and  Persius  in  one  volume,  do.  4 
[1  Tully's   Epistles,  ditto,  and  1  Livy  in  one 
volume  with  Marginal  Notes.     Out  ofi^rint.'] 

1  Horace  in  Usum  Delphini  6 

2  Setts   of   the   most  usefuU   Books  for  Stu- 
dents in  Learning  Latin.     Vizt. 

r2Clarkes     Ovid    10/-.     2    Clarkes    Corde- 

rii,  2/-  12 
2  Clarkes   Erasmus,  2/-.     2  Patrick's  Eras- 

5  mus  II-  9 
2  Ruddiman's  Grammr  5/-.     2  Ruddiman's 

Rudiments,  2/-  7 
^  2  Smarts  Horace  4  vols,  40/-                                  2      0 
2  Corderii    Coloq :     2/-.      2    Philips's    Latin 

L'res,  6/-  8 
2  Boyces  Pantheon  7/-.  2  Baileys  Exer- 
cises 2/-  9 
2  Mair's  Tyro's  Dictionary  8 
2  Lillies  Latin  Gramrs  3 
2  Sterlings  Virgil  —  one   in  2  vols,  the    other 

in  1  vol  —  without  Cla\ds  Virgiliana  16 

2  CorneHus  Nepos  7/-.     2  Rhetorick,  8d.  7 

2  pounce  Boxes  Is.     Pounce  for  Do.  6d.  1      6 

6  papers  best  Ink  Powder  3 
1  Gentns   Magazine  for  1767,  bound  in  Calf 

and  Letterd  7     6 


THE  FOUNDER'S  CHILDREN  91 

2  Ainsworths    Dictionarys    Quarto.     Calf    and 

Letterd  2    12 

1  Salmon's  Geographical  Gramr  6 

1  Bowen's  Atlas  Folio,  bound  in  Calf  and  Let- 
terd 1      7 

1  Bacon's    Abridgement.     5   Volumes,    bound 

in  Calf  and  Letterd  7    17      6 

2  Kennetts  Roman  Antiquities  10 
1  Milton's    Paradise   Lost   and    Regained.     4 

vols.  1      4 

1  Shakespeare's  Plays.     9  vols.  1      7 

1  Congreeve's  Plays.     2  vols.  6 

Col.  Cabell  had  had  previous  correspondence  with  Back- 
house regarding  some  plan  on  which  he  might  continue  his 
deahngs  with  him,  but  they  could  come  to  no  agreement. 
Col.  Cabell  (July,  1771)  wrote  him :  "  From  the  increase  of 
my  family,  had  you  adopted  my  plan,  I  should  have  been 
under  the  necessity  of  enlarging  my  consignments." 

On  October  4,  1771,  he  entered  into  the  following  agree- 
ment with  Charles  Irving :  "  Memo.  That  I,  Charles  Ir- 
ving, as  Factor  for  Henderson,  McCaul  &  Company,  mer- 
chants in  Glasgow  (Scotland)  do  oblige  myself  to  furnish 
William  Cabell,  Jun'r  (from  the  store  now  kept  by  me  in 
Albemarle  County,  Va.)  with  all  the  goods  which  he,  the 
said  Cabell  shall  have  occasion  of  at  50  pr  ct.  on  their  first 
cost,  after  making  the  proper  allowance  on  aU  those  articles 
which  have  a  Debenture,  drawback,  or  Bounty  on  exporta- 
tion. And  it  is  further  agreed  by  and  between  the  parties 
that  the  balance  due  either  party  on  the  first  day  of  Sep- 
tember in  every  year  shall  carry  interest  from  that  time 
until  paid. 

"  Witness  my  hand  this  fourth  day  of  Oct'r,  1771. 

Charles  Irving." 

[Charles  Irving  married  Mildred,  daughter  of  Matthew 
Jordan  and  first  cousin  to  Col.  Cabell's  wife.  "  He  was  the 
son  of  Robert  Irving,  an  Edinburgh  (Scotland)  lawyer  of 


92  THE   CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

some  eminence,  who  was  the  brother  to  James  Irving,  the 
great-grandfather  of  Washington  Irving  of  New  York."] 

There  was  a  bounty  on  Irish  linen  of  11  pence  per  yard, 
on  "  Ozenbrigs,"  and  on  "  hempen  roles."  A  debenture 
on  soap  of  lo  pence  per  pound,  and  on  refined  sugar  of  12 
shillings  per  100  pounds. 

"  Nov.  8.  Made  50  gallons  of  brandy,  being  my  first 
essay."     He  had  previously  imported  this  from  England. 

He  was  again  elected  a  burgess  on  December  1,  1771, 
when  he  seems  to  have  done  some  treating. 

"  Dec.  1st.  Sent  up  120  gals,  of  cider,  and  110  gals,  of 
Bumbo  to  the  election  by  Mr.  Joplin's  wagon." 

"Dec.  9th.  Paid  Richard  Alcock  [the  ordinary  keeper 
at  the  Court  House]  twenty  shillings  balance  in  full  of  my 
expenses  at  the  election,  in  presence  of  Hugh  Rose,  John 
Phillips  and  Roderick  McCuUoch." 

The  diary  from  December  21,  1771,  to  May  1,  1773,  is 
missing. 

The  House  of  Burgesses  met  in  February,  1772,  and 
passed  an  act  authorizing  those  who  had  subscribed  to  the 
fund  for  opening  the  Great  Falls  of  James  River  (after  cer- 
tain conditions  were  complied  with)  to  meet  and  elect  a 
president,  trustees,  and  directors ;  that  is,  to  form  a  com- 
pany "  for  the  cutting  a  canal,  erecting  locks  and  other 
works  requisite  for  opening  the  said  falls." 

Col.  William  Cabell  was  one  of  the  first  subscribers  to 
the  stock  of  this  first  James  River  Canal  Company  (see  Oc- 
tober, 1764),  and  he  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Bur- 
gesses at  this  time ;  but  his  diary  is  missing  here,  and  his 
other  papers  throw  no  light  on  the  result  of  this  act,  the 
meeting  of  the  subscribers,  etc. ;  but  the  inference  is  that 
the  meeting  was  held ;  and,  if  so,  I  suppose  that  Col.  Ca- 
bell took  a  prominent  part  therein,  as  he  certainly  did  in 
the  same  line  of  action  before  and  after  this  date.  Was 
the  company  organized  about  this  time,  in  1772  or  1773  ? 
Was  the  work  interrupted  by  the  Revolution  ?  And  was 
the  company  organized  in  1785  a  reorganization  and  an 
expansion  of  the  company  of  1772  ? 


THE  FOUNDER'S   CHILDREN  93 

Col.  Cabell  was  treasurer  of  Amherst  County  in  1772,  an 
office  which  he  probably  filled  before  that  year  and  after. 

The  first  mention  by  the  diary  (as  preserved)  of  counter- 
feit money  being  in  circulation  in  these  parts  is  on  Janu- 
ary 28,  1770.  It  is  mentioned  quite  frequently  there- 
after. "  A  forgery  of  the  paper-currency  of  the  Colony 
compelled  Govr  Dunmore  to  call  the  Assembly  together 
early  in  1773,  it  met  on  March  4th ;  on  the  12th  the  reso- 
lutions appointing  the  Committee  of  correspondence  passed, 
and  Dunmore  immediately  dissolved  the  House."  And 
here  again  we  have  to  regret  the  loss  of  Col.  Cabell's  diary, 
for  the  Revolution  had  now  begun  in  earnest,  and  every 
step  becomes  more  and  more  interesting.  His  papers  show 
that  Thomas  Jefferson  was  his  attorney  at  this  time. 

The  diary  is  complete  from  May  1  to  December  7,  1773, 
but  it  is  again  missing  from  that  date  to  May  27,  1774. 

I  note  that  in  our  histories  we  are  told  that  Mr.  Johnson, 
a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  from  Louisa  County, 
vacated  his  seat  in  1765  by  accepting  the  office  of  coroner, 
and  that  Patrick  Henry  was  elected  in  his  place.  I  am  sure 
that  Col.  William  Cabell  was  both  coroner  of,  and  a  burgess 
from,  old  Amherst  for  many  years.  I  should  also  note  the 
fact  that,  prior  to  his  father's  death  in  April,  1774,  his 
name  nearly  always  appears  in  the  records  as  "  Wm.  Ca- 
bell, Junr,"  or  "  Col.  Wm.  CabeU." 

The  next  Assembly  met  in  May,  1774.  On  the  25th, 
they  entered  an  indignant  protest  against  the  Boston  Port 
Bill ;  on  the  next  day,  Dunmore  dissolved  them.  "  The 
burgesses  repaii-ed  [May  27]  to  the  Raleigh,  and  adopted 
resolutions  against  the  use  of  tea,  etc.,  and  recommended 
the  annual  convening  of  a  Congress  "  (see  Campbell's  "  His- 
tory of  Virginia,"  p.  573).  "  Further  news  being  received 
from  Boston,  the  members  who  remained  in  Williamsburg 
held  a  meeting  on  the  30th,  at  which  Peyton  Randolph 
presided,  and  they  issued  a  circular,  recommending  a  meet- 
ing of  deputies  in  a  convention  to  assemble  there  on  the 
first  of  August." 


94  THE   CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

Col.  Cabell  was  at  the  meeting  in  "  The  Raleigh,"  but  he 
left  Williamsburg  on  the  28th,  prior  to  the  second  meeting, 
arrived  at  home  on  the  30th,  and  observed  June  1  as 
"  a  day  of  fasting,  prayer  and  humiliation." 

The  diary  is  complete  from  May  27,  1774,  to  April  19, 
1776. 

The  tradition  in  the  family  is  that,  although  Col.  Wil- 
liam Cabell  bitterly  opposed  the  oppressive  acts  of  Great 
Britain,  he  had  strong  hope  of  a  final  and  satisfactory  set- 
tlement until  the  passage  of  the  Boston  Port  Bill,  which 
was  to  take  effect  on  June  1,  1774. 

The  following  anecdote  was  told  to  the  late  N.  F.  Cabell, 
Esq.,  many  years  ago,  "  by  Mr.  Richard  N.  Venable  of 
Prince  Edward,  and  afterwards  confirmed  by  old  Mr. 
James  Wilson  of  Cumberland,  substantially  as  follows : 
When  the  House  of  Burgesses  was  dissolved  by  Dunmore, 
the  members  repaired  en  masse  to  the  Raleigh  Tavern, 
from  whence  they  issued  their  famous  circuler  letter  to 
their  constituents.  Col.  Cabell,  when  coming  out  of  the 
former  House,  was  met  by  a  friend,  who  observed  that  he 
was  much  agitated  and  talking  vehemently  to  his  brother 
Josepli,  with  whom  he  was  walking  arm  in  arm. 

"  '  Where  now.  Colonel  ?  '  asked  his  friend. 

"  '  To  the  Raleigh  Tavern.' 

"  '  And  what  to  do  ? ' 

" '  No  one  can  deny,'  said  Col.  Cabell,  '  that  the  people 
of  this  colony  have  been  loyal  subjects ;  they  have  borne 
their  grievances  with  patience,  and  have  petitioned  respect- 
fully for  their  removal.  All  their  remonstrances  and  me- 
morials have  been  treated  with  neglect  and  contempt,  and 
now  we  are  to  be  gagged.  By  the  eternal  God !  we  must 
fight,  and  for  one,  I  care  not  how  soon.' 

"  The  anecdote,  of  course,  cannot  be  used  as  history,  but 
I  give  it  as  having  made  a  strong  impression  on  my  mind 
at  the  time.  It  was  thous^ht  the  more  sinofular  as  he  was 
ordinarily  a  m^n  of  great  prudence  and  self-possession ; 
but  being  once  engaged,  he  was  not  the  man  to  carry  the 


THE  FOUNDER'S   CHILDREN  95 

spirit  of  peace  into  war."  (Extract  from  a  letter  from 
N.  F.  Cabell  to  William  C.  Rives,  April  19,  1855.) 

In  June  and  July,  1774,  meetings  were  held  in  the 
various  counties  for  the  purpose  of  nominating  and  choos- 
ing deputies  to  the  first  Revolutionary  convention,  which 
was  to  assemble  on  "the  first  of  August  next."  The  real 
motive  of  these  meetings  was  that  "  Life  and  Liberty  never 
shall  be  parted,"  and  "  Independence  "  was  the  uppermost 
thought,  which  was  more  or  less  publicly  expressed  at  many 
of  them.  It  has  been  claimed  that  the  "  Resolves  "  of  the 
meeting  at  Woodstock,  Shenandoah  County,  June  16,  1774, 
presided  over  by  Rev.  Peter  Muhlenberg,  were,  all  things 
considered,  as  pronounced  as  "the  Mecklenburg  [N.  C] 
Declaration  of  Independence  of  20  May,  1775."  I  do  not 
know  what  "Resolves"  were  "Resolved"  in  this  section; 
but  old  Albemarle  sent  down  Thomas  Jefferson  and  John 
Walker,  while  old  Amherst  sent  Col.  WiUiam  and  Col.  Joe 
CabeU. 

"  July  25th,  1774,  the  election  of  Burgesses  for  Amherst 
took  place,  when  myself  and  brother  Joseph  were  elected 
without  ojypositionJ' 

"  July  28th.  Set  off  on  my  way  to  Williamsburg  to  the 
general  meeting  of  Deputies  the  first  of  August  next." 

This  was  the  first  Revolutionary  convention  held  in  Vir- 
ginia. The  first  state  delegates  to  Congress  were  elected 
by  it.  "Amherst  County's  proportion  for  the  use  of  the 
Deputies  sent  from  this  Colony  to  the  General  Congress  " 
was  fifteen  pounds. 

"August  7th.  Paid  Col.  Pendleton  £15,  being  Am- 
herst County's  proportion  allotted  by  the  late  meeting  of 
Delegates.     £5  2s.  part  of  which  Joseph  Cabell  paid." 

"  x\ugust  10th.  Came  home  from  the  meeting  of  Dele- 
gates after  being  absent  14  days.  6  days  the  Convention 
sat." 

This  convention,  among  other  things,  recommended  that 
committees  be  chosen  in  each  county  to  carry  out  the  con- 
tinental association,  etc. 


96  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

"Augt  19th.  Paid  Mr.  John  Nicholas  £4  in  part  of 
£10,  which  I  subscribed  for  the  clearing  of  the  Seven 
Islands  Falls,  in  presence  of  John  Rose,  Charles  Irving  and 
Cornelius  Thomas." 

"Augt  27th.  Patrick  Rose  desired  me  in  the  presence 
of  John  Rose,  Hugh  Rose,  Charles  Rose  and  Wm.  Fon- 
taine, to  set  his  name  to  my  subscription  paper  for  opening 
the  Great  Falls  of  James  River,  and  to  put  £50,  which 
amount  he  was  willing  to  subscribe." 

The  Presbytery  of  Hanover  met  on  the  2d  Wednesday 
of  November  (the  11th),  1774,  at  the  house  of  Col.  Wil- 
liam Cabell,  of  Amherst,  to  remonstrate  against  certain 
provisions  of  a  bill  entitled  "A  bill  for  extending  the 
benefit  of  the  Act  of  Toleration  to  his  Majesty's  subjects 
dissenting  from  the  Church  of  England  in  the  Colony 
of  Virginia,"  which  had  been  passed  by  the  Assembly  in 
1772.  The  Presbytery  drew  up  a  petition  "in  behalf  of 
themselves,  and  all  the  Presbyterians  in  Virginia  in  par- 
ticular, and  all  Protestant  dissenters  in  general,"  to  "  the 
Honourable  Speaker  and  the  Gentlemen  of  the  House  of 
Burgesses,"  which  was  signed  by  David  Rice,  moderator, 
and  Caleb  Wallace,  clerk.  This  very  interesting  paper  was 
found  by  the  Hon.  W.  W.  Henry  early  in  May,  1888,  and 
printed  for  the  first  time  in  "  The  Central  Presbyterian," 
Richmond,  May  16,  1888. 

The  fact  that  this  celebrated  meeting  was  held  at  "  Union 
Hill  "  shows  that  Col.  Cabell  favored  "  Religious  Liberty ;  " 
but  the  burgesses  from  old  Amherst,  hke  most  of  the  Revo- 
lutionary leaders,  were  members  of  the  Church  of  England. 

All  of  the  Cabell  family  were  members  of  that  Church  at 
that  time,  but  the  standing  of  the  Church  in  America  was 
much  affected  during  and  after  the  Revolution,  owing  to 
the  fact  that  it  was  regarded  as  an  English  institution. 

The  amount  of  business  done  by  Col.  Cabell  —  pubHc, 
state,  county,  and  personal  —  was  enormous,  and  although 
I  believe  that  an  account  of  his  personal  and  private  affairs 
would  be  of  interest  to  most  of  his  descendants,  I  find  that 


THE  FOUNDER'S   CHILDREN  97 

to  go  into  these  details  would  make  this  sketch  too  long, 
and  therefore  I  am  obliged  to  confine  myself  in  the  main  to 
his  more  public  acts. 

Although  an  Assembly  met  in  June,  1775,  there  was 
really  an  interregnum,  or  lack  of  regular  form  of  govern- 
ment, in  Virginia,  from  the  dissolution  of  the  colonial 
Assembly  in  May,  1774,  to  the  meeting  of  the  state  As- 
sembly on  October  7,  1776.  The  colony  was  governed  in 
a  manner  by  conventions,  by  county  committees,  and  by  the 
state  Committee  of  Safety.  It  is  true  that  Patrick  Henry 
qualified  as  governor  on  July  5,  1776,  and  that  the  first 
year  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Virginia  began  on  that  day ; 
but  the  government  first  assumed  a  regular  form  with  the 
meeting  of  the  first  state  Assembly. 

Col.  William  Cabell  was  chairman  of  the  county  com- 
mittee of  Amherst,  1774-1776.  (See  sketch  of  Col.  George 
Carrington,  p.  159.) 

"  March  18th,  1775.  Set  off  on  my  way  to  the  Conven- 
tion at  Richmond,  which  sat  from  the  20th  to  the  27th 
inclusive." 

"  On  the  27th  of  March,  it  was  resolved  that  the  utmost 
endeavours  be  used  to  establish  salt  works."  Col.  Cabell 
had,  already,  on  "  the  24th  inst.  paid  James  Tait  £10  for 
the  encouragement  of  making  salt." 

He  is  said  to  have  supported  the  scheme  of  a  regular 
army,  presented  in  this  convention  by  Robert  Carter 
Nicholas. 

On  the  25th  inst.,  the  Convention  recommended  that  so 
much  money  should  be  collected  "  as  will  be  sufficient  to 
purchase  half  a  pound  of  gunpowder,  one  pound  of  lead, 
necessary  flints  and  cartridge  paper  for  every  tithable  per- 
son. 

Col.  Cabell  reached  home  from  the  Convention  on  March 
30,  and  by  May  15  had  collected  and  sent  down  Amherst 
County's  proportion  (£63  3s.  9d.)  of  the  above  fund. 

On  May  28,  he  set  off  on  his  way  to  the  Assembly. 
"June    10th   paid   Thomas   Jefferson   Esq.  £25.  for   the 


98  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

Bostonians,  which  he  is  to  deliver  Mr.  Adams  one  of  the 
Delegates  for  the  Massachusetts  Bay."  "  The  Assembly 
met  on  June  1st,  and  I  continued  until  Friday  the  16th 
and  got  home  on  Monday  the  19th."     (Diary.) 

On  June  6,  Gov.  Dunmore  consulted  his  safety  by  going 
on  board  the  Fowey  man-of-war.  The  Assembly  determined 
that  he  had  voluntarily  left  his  post,  and  that  the  presi- 
dent of  the  council  should  act  as  governor.  June  16,  the 
burgesses  adjourned  to  October  12,  and  a  convention  was 
called  to  meet  July  17.  The  burgesses  met  in  convention 
at  the  appointed  time,  but  this  was  the  last  meeting  of  the 
House  of  Burgesses,  as  such,  in  Virginia. 

"  July  17.  Set  off  on  my  way  to  the  Convention."  "  The 
Convention  sat  41  days  and  to  charge  100  miles  @  4d. 
travelling  to  and  from  Richmond." 

In  this  convention.  Col.  Cabell  was  a  member  of  "  the 
committee  appointed  to  prepare  and  bring  in  an  ordinance 
for  raising  and  embodying  a  sufficient  force  for  the  defence 
and  protection  of  this  Colony."  The  flight  of  Dunmore  left 
Virginia  without  an  executive,  and  rendered  it  necessary  to 
vest  its  powers  elsewhere  for  a  time ;  and  it  was  resolved  to 
lodge  these  powers  in  a  Committee  of  Safety,  the  ordinance 
appointing  the  same  passing  the  convention  on  August  16. 
It  was  designated  as  a  committee  "  for  the  more  effectual 
carrying  into  execution  the  rules  and  regulations  estab- 
lished by  this  Convention  for  the  protection  of  this  Colony." 
In  order  to  prevent  favoritism  in  the  distribution  of  offices, 
etc.,  it  was  resolved  that  "  No  member  of  the  Committee  of 
Safety  shall  hold  any  military  office  whatsoever  after  the 
end  of  this  session  of  the  Convention."  On  August  17, 
Col.  Cabell  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Committee  of 
Safety.  The  resolution  of  the  16th  inst.  prevented  him 
from  taking  the  field,  but  it  did  not  prevent  him  from 
taking  a  most  active  part  in  the  civil  list  during  the  whole 
war.  The  Convention  also  appointed  him  as  one  of  the 
commissioners  for  settling  the  militia  accounts,  etc.,  in  the 
Indian  wars,  in  the  counties  of  Fincastle,  Botetovirt,  Cul- 


THE  FOUNDER'S  CHILDREN  99 

peper,  Pittsylvania,  Halifax,  Bedford,  and  that  part  of 
Augusta  which  lies  eastward  of  the  Alleghany  Mountains. 
He  returned  home  from  the  Convention  on  August  28. 

The  Revolution  had  begun,  and  old  Amherst  gave  the 
event  a  "  jarring  "  reception.  On  March  16,  the  day  before 
Col.  Cabell  set  off  for  the  Convention,  about  a  quarter  after 
two  in  the  afternoon,  a  severe  shock  of  an  earthquake  was 
felt ;  a  quarter  after  seven  there  was  another,  and  a  third 
just  before  day.  On  August  30,  two  days  after  he  returned 
from  Convention,  there  was  another  shock  of  an  earth- 
quake about  two  in  the  morning,  "  which  continued  for  a 
considerable  time ;  the  lumbering  noise  was  greater  than 
any  of  the  kind  I  have  ever  heard,  and  continued  longer." 

The  ordinance  for  raising  and  embodying  a  sufficient 
force  for  the  defense  and  protection  of  this  colony,  prepared 
by  the  committee  of  the  July-August  Convention,  divided 
the  colony  into  sixteen  districts,  and  each  district  was  or- 
dered forthwith  to  raise  one  company  for  active  service. 
The  company  from  this  district  (Buckingham,  Amherst, 
Albemarle,  and  East  Augusta)  was  ordered  to  be  composed 
of  "expert  Riflemen."  The  county  committees  of  each 
county  in  the  district  were  to  appoint  three  of  their  number 
as  deputies,  to  meet  in  one  general  district  committee,  to 
appoint  the  officers  (one  captain,  two  lieutenants,  and  one 
ensign)  to  command  the  company  to  be  raised  in  that  dis- 
trict, as  well  as  to  regulate  matters  pertaining  to  the  min- 
ute-men (see  sketch  of  Col.  Nicholas  Cabell)  from  the  same 
district.  Col.  William  Cabell  was  one  of  the  deputies  from 
the  Amherst  committee  to  the  district  committee  which  met 
on  September  8,  1775,  at  the  house  of  James  Woods  in 
Amherst.  They  elected  the  officers  for  this  first  rifle  com- 
pany to  be  raised  in  the  district,  and  selected  Charlottesville 
as  the  place  of  rendezvous  for  the  reception  and  review  of 
the  "  regulars  to  be  raised  in  the  district." 

The  names  of  the  officers  are  not  given  in  the  Cabell 
papers,  but  I  am  very  sure  that  William  Fontaine  was  the 
captain ;  that  it  was  attached  to  the  2d  Virginia  Regiment, 


100  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

and  that  it  was  on  duty  near  Williamsburg  early  in  Novem- 
ber, 1775.  Several  citizens  of  Amherst  were  members  of 
Captain  Fontaine's  company,  and  several  others  furnished 
rifles  to  the  company,  for  which  they  were  allowed  £4  each 
by  the  Committee  of  Safety.  Capt.  William  Fontaine  was 
a  tutor  at  "  Union  Hill "  from  the  spring  of  1774  to  Sep- 
tember, 1775.  He  was  the  son  of  Col.  Peter  Fontaine,  and 
brother  to  Maj.  James  Fontaine,  who  was  afterwards  killed 
at  Harmer's  defeat.  He  was  present  at  the  surrender  of 
Cornwallis,  for  a  graphic  and  interesting  account  of  which, 
given  in  a  letter  from  him,  see  the  "  Virginia  Historical 
Register,"  vol.  ii.  p.  34.  He  was  then  Col.  WilUam  Fon- 
taine. 

Col.  William  Cabell  went  direct  from  the  meeting  of  Sep- 
tember 8  to  Augusta  County,  where  he  was  engaged  for 
forty-one  days  in  settling  the  mihtia  accounts  pertaining  to 
the  Indian  wars  on  the  frontiers,  a  service  in  which  he  had 
been  several  times  employed  before.  In  1775,  there  were 
5296  whites  and  2750  negroes  in  old  Amherst.  Forty 
years  before.  Dr.  Cabell  and  his  men  were  alone  in  these 
woods,  chopping  out  the  lines  for  the  first  entry  for  land  in 
this  resfion. 

The  county  committees  under  the  Continental  associa- 
tion (August,  1774)  had  not  been  uniformly  organized  as 
to  their  numbers,  etc.,  and  there  was  no  definite  limit  as  to 
their  term  of  service.  Therefore  the  Convention  of  July- 
August,  1775,  ordained  that  they  should  thereafter  be  com- 
posed of  twenty-one  members,  to  be  elected  annually,  in 
November,  for  one  year.  The  second  committee  for  Am- 
herst County  was  elected  at  November  court  (first  Monday), 
1775.  It  was  composed  of  "  twenty-one  of  the  most  dis- 
creet fit  and  able  men  of  the  County,"  namely  :  "  Col.  Wm. 
Cabell  (chairman),  Zacharias  Taliaferro,  Ambrose  Rucker, 
Alexander  Reid,  Roderick  McCulloch,  Col.  James  Nevil, 
Daniel  Gaines,  David  Crawford,  Col.  John  Rose,  James 
Dillard,  Sr.,  Hugh  Rose,  John  Dawson,  William  Horsley, 
John  Digges,  Benjamin  Rucker,  Col.  Joseph  Cabell,  Gabriel 


THE  FOUNDER'S  CHILDREN  101 

Penn,  Lucas  Powell,  Dr.  James  Hopkins,  David  Shepherd, 
and  Francis  Meriwether."  Gabriel  Penn  was  paymaster  of 
the  district.  Charles  Rose  was  clerk  to  the  district  com- 
mittee, and  also  to  the  Amherst  County  committee. 

Col.  William  Cabell  was  absent  from  home,  attending  the 
state  Committee  of  Safety,  from  the  9th  to  the  19th  of  No- 
vember. 

"  Novr.  22nd.  Delivered  Col.  Nevil  the  commissions  for 
the  militia  officers  for  Amherst  County." 

"  Novr.  23.  Delivered  Col.  John  Cabell  the  commissions 
for  the  MiUtia  officers  for  Buckingham  County." 

These  commissions  were  from  the  Committee  of  Safety. 
As  a  member  of  that  committee.  Col.  Cabell  was  debarred 
from  holding  any  military  office,  because  that  committee 
had  the  appointment  of  such  officers.  Col.  James  Nevil 
had  succeeded  him  as  county  lieutenant  and  chief  com- 
mander of  Amherst,  and  his  commission  as  such  was  also 
from  the  Committee  of  Safety. 

"  Novr.  26th.  No  salt  to  be  had  in  Richmond  or  Wil- 
liamsburg." 

"  Novr.  28th.  Set  off  on  my  way  to  the  Convention." 

This  Convention  met  at  Richmond  on  December  1,  and 
adjourned  to  meet  in  Williamsburg  on  Monday,  December 
4,  1775.  Col.  Cabell  was  a  member  of  several  important 
committees  during  this  Convention,  and  on  December  16, 
was  reelected  one  of  the  "  New  Committee  of  Safety," 
which  went  into  operation  on  January  18,  1776,  under  an 
amended  ordinance  which  increased  their  power,  and  their 
pay  also  (from  15s.  to  25s.  per  day). 

The  Convention  adjourned  on  January  20, 1776,  but  the 
new  Committee  of  Safety  had  been  in  session  since  the  18th 
inst. 

"  1776,  Jan'y  23d.  By  The  Treasurer  £76  15s.  my 
wages  as  one  of  The  Committee  of  Safety  to  the  18th  inst. 
inclusive. 

"  By  do.  £25  14s.  my  wages  as  a  Delegate  to  The  Con- 
vention. 


102  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR   KIN 

"  By  do.  25s.  for  one  day  in  settling  the  Militia  accounts 
at  Cumberland  C.  H. 

"Paid  Mrs  Vobe  16/3  my  part  of  an  entertainment 
given  Col.  Howe,  &c.    In  presence  of  Col.  Paul  Carrington. 

"  ^th.  Paid  Richard  Charlton  £25  17  4,  in  full  of  my 
expenses,  in  presence  of  Col.  Paul  Carrington. 

"  Paid  James  Southall  £9,  in  full  of  my  expenses  with 
him  as  pr  account  and  receipt  delivered. 

"  25th.  I  left  the  new  Committee  of  Safety  after  having 
set  7  days,  inclusive,  which  I  have  not  received  for. 

"  26th.  By  Wm.  Mitchell  £101,  in  part  of  my  acct. 

"27th.  Paid  Col.  George  Carrington,  chairman  of  the 
Committee  of  Cumberland,  £72,  the  recruiting  money  for 
that  County. 

"  28th.  I  returned  home  from  the  Convention  and  Com- 
mittee of  Safety  after  being  absent  two  months. 

"  29th.  Paid  Col.  John  Cabell,  chairman  of  the  Com- 
mittee of  Buckingham,  £72,  the  recruiting  money  for  that 
County." 

During  the  previous  316  days,  he  had  been  absent  from 
home  in  the  public  service  nearly  200  days.  But  he  was 
really  in  the  public  service  the  whole  time,  for  during  the 
other  100  and  odd  days  he  was  transacting  public  business 
with  the  officers  of  Amherst,  Buckingham,  Bedford,  and 
Cumberland ;  with  the  county  committee  and  the  district 
committee,  and  with  James  Thompson  and  Edward  Johnson, 
of  Fincastle ;  collecting  the  ammunition  tax,  subscriptions 
for  the  Bostonians  and  for  the  delegates  to  Congress ; 
paying  especial  attention  to  the  resolutions  passed  by  Con- 
vention, March  27,  1775,  "for  encouragement  of  Arts 
and  Manufactures,"  increasing  his  facilities  for  weaving, 
planting  most  largely  of  cotton,  flax,  hemp,  and  corn ;  pay- 
ing particular  attention  to  his  sheep  (of  which  he  had  a 
large  number),  and  encouraging  the  manufacture  of  iron  at 
his  iron-works  on  the  Hardware  River.  And  he  continued 
thus  to  give  his  time  to  the  cause  during  the  whole  of  the 
Revolutionary  war. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  CHILDREN  103 

As  he  was  chairman  of  the  committee  of  Amherst,  he 
retained  the  recruiting  money  for  that  county  in  his  own 
hands  for  distribution.  Under  "An  ordinance  for  raising 
an  additional  number  of  forces  for  the  defence  and  protec- 
tion of  this  colony,"  passed  by  the  last  Convention,  six 
new  regiments  were  to  be  raised,  and  Amherst  County's 
proportion  was  one  company  of  riflemen,  —  captain,  two 
lieutenants,  an  ensign,  four  sergeants,  a  drummer,  a  fifer, 
and  sixty-eight  rank  and  file.  The  officers  were  to  be  ap- 
pointed by  the  county  committee ;  the  regular  soldiers  were 
to  be  paid  twenty  shillings  each,  on  enlisting.  The  county 
committee  met  on  February  5,  1776,  and  appointed  the 
officers.  For  a  further  account  of  this  first  rifle  company 
raised  in  old  Amherst,  see  the  sketch  of  Samuel  J.  Cabell. 

"  March  7th,  1776.  Set  off  on  my  way  to  the  Committee 
of  Safety.  10th.  Came  into  Williamsburg.  11th.  Took 
my  seat  in  Committee." 

"  March  24th.  Capt.  Samuel  Cabell  arrived  in  Williams- 
burg with  his  Company  [from  Amherst],  after  a  march  of 
12  days,  all  ivell." 

"  March  28th.  General  Lee  arrived  in  Williamsburg:  and 
dined  with  the  Committee  of  Safety,  which  was  the  first  day 
of  their  having  a  full  board  since  their  institution." 

"  April  17th.  Returned  home  from  the  Committee  of 
Safety." 

"  May  2nd.  Set  off  on  my  way  to  the  Committee  of 
Safety  and  Convention." 

"May  6.  Attended  the  Committee,  and  the  same  day 
the  Convention  met."  This  is  known  in  state  history  as 
"27ie"  Convention.  On  May  15,  appeaHng  to  "The 
Searcher  of  Hearts,"  the  Convention  instructed  our  dele- 
gates in  the  General  Congress  "to  declare  the  United 
Colonies  free  and  Independent  States."  On  the  same  day 
a  committee  was  appointed  "to  prepare  a  Declaration  of 
Rights,"  and  form  of  government,  and  Col.  Cabell  was  a 
member  of  this  celebrated  committee,  and  also  of  "  The 
Committee  of  Propositions  and  Grievances."     He  was  also 


104  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

appointed  one  of  the  trustees  "  for  erecting  a  blast  furnace 
for  making  pig  iron  (for  moulding  cannon)  in  the  county 
of  Buckingham ;  "  but  being  "  inconveniently  situated  " 
for  attending  to  the  matter,  his  father-in-law,  Col.  Samuel 
Jordan,  was  appointed  to  the  place. 

July  4:.  The  Convention  "  laid  off  the  Colony  into  dis- 
tricts for  choice  of  Senators." 

July  5.  Patrick  Henry  took  the  oath  as  the  first  governor 
of  the  commonwealth.  The  Committee  of  Safety  was  dis- 
solved. The  Convention  adjourned,  to  meet  "the  first 
Monday  in  October  next."  Thus  the  Colony  of  Virginia 
passed  away,  and  the  State  of  Virginia  was  born. 

"  July  10th.  I  returned  home  from  the  Convention,  hav- 
ing been  absent  since  the  2nd  of  May." 

The  new  commonwealth  was  now  to  be  organized,  the 
courts  of  justice  which  had  been  suspended  were  now  to  be 
formed.  On  August  5,  1776,  the  old  ofiicials  met  at  Am- 
herst Court  House,  in  obedience  to  an  order  of  the  last  con- 
vention, to  qualify,  make  oath,  etc.,  to  the  new  government, 
"  so  as  to  enable  them  to  continue  the  administration  of 
justice  and  to  settle  the  general  mode  of  proceedings  in 
criminal  and  other  cases,  until  the  same  could  be  more 
amply  provided  for." 

"  Wm.  Cabell,  Esqr.,  the  first-mentioned  gentleman  in  the 
commission  of  the  peace  [the  presiding  justice]  for  this 
county,  took  the  oath  prescribed  by  the  said  ordinance  of 
the  last  Convention,"  and  the  other  county  officials  did  Hke- 
wise.  Then  William  Cabell,  Joseph  Cabell,  Hugh  Rose, 
and  the  other  vestrymen  of  the  church  took  the  oath  pre- 
scribed for  them  by  an  ordinance  of  Convention. 

On  the  first  Monday  in  September,  the  first  election  for 
the  first  state  senator  from  the  old  eighth  district  (Bucking- 
ham, Albemarle,  and  Amherst)  took  place,  under  the  first 
constitution  (known  as  "the  George  Mason  Constitution"), 
and  Col.  William  Cabell  was  elected. 

"  Octr  3rd.    Set  off  on  my  way  to  the  Senate." 

"Oct.  7th.   The   Senate  met."     The   first  General  As- 


THE  FOUNDER'S   CHILDREN  105 

sembly  of  the  State,  —  Governor  and  Council,  Senate  and 
House  of  Delegates  —  (the  members  of  the  late  Convention 
acting  for  the  present  as  a  House  of  Delegates).  There 
was  a  great  deal  of  work  to  be  done,  and  the  session  was  a 
lono-  one.  Col.  Cabell  was  at  home  attending  to  various 
public  affairs  in  the  county  from  the  1st  to  the  22d  of 
November.  On  the  23d,  he  returned  to  the  Senate.  The 
Assembly  adjourned  on  December  21,  but  Col.  Cabell  had 
left  Williamsburg  two  days  prior  thereto,  on  the  evening 
of  the  19th,  arriving  at  home  on  the  22d. 

"  Dec.  2nd,  1776."  Col.  Cabell  "  signed  a  bond  to  the 
Masters  and  Professors  of  The  College  for  and  in  behalf 
of  James  Higginbotham  for  his  appointment  as  surveyor  of 
the  County  of  Amherst,  and  paid  26  shillings  for  him  for 
his  commission." 

"  Jan'y  6th,  1777.  Delivered  Maj'r  James  Higgin- 
botham a  Surveyor's  Commission,  which  I  procured  for 
him,  in  consideration  of  which  he  is  to  resign  at  any  time  I 
require  him,  either  to  myself  or  any  one  of  my  sons,"  etc. 

Col.  Cabell  never  filled  the  position  again,  but  his  son 
William  did. 

Col.  Cabell  was  now  a  state  senator,  the  presiding  justice 
of  Amherst,  a  vestryman  of  Amherst  Parish,  and,  since 
November  8,  1775,  a  trustee  of  Hampden  Sidney  School. 

Unfortunately,  many  pages  of  the  diary  for  1776  are 
missing,  including  the  following  dates :  April  20-26,  May 
7-24,  July  21  to  October  2,  and  October  8  to  November  1 
inclusive.  From  July  1  to  December  16,  1777,  is  also 
missing;  but  from  December  17,  1777,  to  February  28, 
1782,  is  complete. 

Col.  Cabell  was  frequently  absent  from  home  on  public 
business  during  the  Revolution,  and  while  at  home  he  was 
always  working  for  the  cause,  —  superintending  the  collect- 
ing of  supplies  and  money  for  the  support  of  the  wives  and 
children  of  poor  soldiers,  and  the  widows  of  deceased 
soldiers,  being  himself  the  most  liberal  contributor  thereto ; 
managing  the  drafts  of  militia ;  raising  men  for  recruiting 


106  THE   CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

our  regiments ;  laying  off  the  county  in  districts  and  the 
miHtia  in  divisions ;  supplying  the  convention  prisoners  and 
barracks  in  Albemarle  with  provisions,  and  the  army  with 
guns,  clothes,  jDrovisions,  wagons,  boats,  etc. 

''  1777,  April  6th.  Received  of  Lieut.  Valentine  a  letter 
from  His  Excellency  the  Governor  [Patrick  Henry],  also 
£236  16s.  for  the  County  Lieutenant,  the  money  for  the 
recruiting  service  in  this  Commonwealth,  and  the  letter 
respecting  the  appointment  of  the  oJBicers,  both  of  which  I 
sent  Col.  Nevil  by  my  son  William,  and  have  his  receipt, 
which  is  filed  among  my  papers."  Under  an  act  of  the 
last  General  Assembly  for  raising  six  additional  battalions, 
Amherst  was  to  furnish  another  company,  and  the  fore- 
going has  reference  to  this  second  company  of  regulars. 

"April  7th.  Our  Election  took  place."  He  was  again 
elected  senator. 

"  April  27th.  Just  recovering  from  the  most  severe  indis- 
position, I  ever  labored  under." 

May  5,  he  was  "  recommended  by  the  County  Court  to 
the  Treasurer  to  receive  £20  from  the  State  for  the  sup- 
port of  the  wives  and  children  of  such  poor  soldiers  as  have 
enlisted  from  this  County  in  the  service  of  the  United 
States  of  America."  This  sum  was  paid  to  him  by  the 
treasurer  on  the  10th  of  June  following. 

He  left  home  "  to  give  his  attendance  on  the  Assembly, 
May  26th,"  and  returned  some  time  in  July.  Most  unfor- 
tunately his  diary  is  missing  for  the  very  interesting  period 
between  June  30  and  December  17,  1777,  at  which  time  he 
was  attending  the  fall  and  winter  session  of  the  Assembly. 
Burgoyne  surrendered  on  October  17  ;  on  the  30th,  the 
Assembly  and  citizens  of  Williamsburg  celebrated  the 
event,  and  we  may  rest  assured  that  the  old  Amherst  com- 
pany (which  fought  under  Dan  Morgan  at  the  battle  of 
Saratoga)  was  not  forgotten  on  that  occasion  by  Col.  Wil- 
liam Cabell.  He  returned  home  from  the  Assembly  on 
January  28,  1778.  For  further  reference  to  the  military 
acts  of  the  period,  see  the  sketch  of  Col.  Joseph  Cabell, 


THE  FOUNDER'S  CHILDREN  107 

who  was  at  this  time  the  county  Ueutenant  or  chief  com- 
mander of  Amherst. 

"  Jan'y  30.  Note  that  XXX  dollar  bills  of  the  Emission 
of  July  22nd,  1776,  have  been  forged." 

"  Feb'y  3rd.  By  William  Walton  twelve  shillings  in  full 
for  the  Journals  and  Acts  of  the  last  May  session." 

"  Feb'y  24th.  Delivered  Col.  Joseph  Cabell  a  subscrip- 
tion, for  clearing  the  Seven  Islands  Falls,  for  <£125,  in 
presence  of  Col.  Nevil  and  John  Lewis." 

"  Feb.  26th.  Delivered  Col.  Joseph  CabeU  £8,  the  bal- 
ance of  my  own  and  my  son  Sam's  subscription  to  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Camp  for  the  year  1777-'78." 

"  Paid  Col.  Joseph  Cabell  four  D.  Doubleloons  and  four 
pistoles  to  purchase  furniture  from  Mr.  Camp  for  me." 

Mr.  Camp  was  leaving  the  parish  and  going  West  with 
Maj.  George  Rogers  Clark. 

Col.  Cabell  was  very  busy  at  home  in  the  spring  of 
1778,  and  only  attended  the  May  session  of  the  General 
Assembly  from  May  28  to  June  5.  At  which  time,  he 
probably  brought  to  Amherst  the  first  news  of  the  treaty 
with  France. 

From  July  25  to  July  31  he  was  "  going  to,  attending 
at,  and  returning  from.  Prince  Edward  Court  House,"  as 
one  of  the  managers  of  the  Hampden  Sidney  Lottery. 

On  October  5,  petitions  for  the  division  of  the  parish, 
and  for  the  support  of  the  clergy,  were  presented  in  Am- 
herst court,  and  ordered  to  be  certified  to  the  General 
Assembly.  Col.  Cabell  was  the  presiding  magistrate  of  the 
county  and  senator  from  the  district.  On  October  8,  he  set 
off  on  his  way  to  the  General  Assembly  (which  had  met  on 
the  5th  inst.),  and  took  his  seat  in  the  Senate. 

Amherst  Parish  was  divided  into  Amherst  Parish  (same 
bounds  as  the  present  county  of  Nelson)  and  Lexington 
Parish,  with  the  same  bounds  as  the  present  county  of  Am- 
herst. It  was  named,  I  suppose,  in  honor  of  the  first  battle 
of  the  Revolution.  There  was  no  provision  made  for  the 
support  of  the  clergy.  On  December  6,  Col.  Cabell  re- 
turned home  from  the  Assembly. 


108  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

The  parish  was  divided  in  the  spring  of  1779.  Col.  Ca- 
bell and  his  brother  Nicholas  were  members  of  the  first 
vestry  of  the  new  Amherst  Parish.  On  April  28,  he  set 
off  to  the  Assembly,  took  his  seat  in  the  Senate  on  May 
3,  remained  until  May  22,  and  got  home  on  the  21:th. 

June  7,  he  distributed  the  late  acts  of  Assembly  among 
the  justices  of  the  county.  He  was  absent  attending  the 
October  session  of  the  Assembly  from  October  9  to  Decem- 
ber 12,  1779. 

1780  was,  as  usual,  a  very  busy  year  with  him.  In  the 
spring,  he  was  paying  particular  attention  to  increasing  the 
number  of  his  cattle  and  sheep,  and  the  size  of  his  crops 
of  corn,  cotton,  flax,  and  hemp. 

Flax-wheels  were  £16  apiece.  Cotton  and  wool  cards 
were  distributed  by  the  public  among  the  people  at  about 
cost  prices.  "  May  21st,  1779.  Paid  Mr.  Wm.  Armistead 
£31  10s.  for  21  pair  Cards  allotted  Amherst  County  the 
24th  of  December,  last." 

On  May  1,  the  General  Assembly  met  for  the  first  time 
in  Richmond,  the  future  capital  of  the  State.  From  May 
12  to  July  16,  Col.  Cabell  was  attending  the  Senate. 

Charleston,  S.  C,  had  fallen  on  May  12. 

This  General  Assembly  passed  "  an  Act  to  embody 
militia  for  the  relief  of  South  Carolina."  Amherst  Coun- 
ty's proportion  of  the  troops  ordered  to  the  relief  of  South 
Carolina  was  135  men. 

And,  also,  early  in  July,  "  an  Act  for  speedily  recruiting 
the  quota  of  this  State  for  the  continental  army,"  under 
which  the  county  was  to  furnish  one  15th  man  of  the 
militia,  which  was  to  be  laid  off  into  divisions  (each  division 
to  recruit  a  man)  by  the  field  officers  of  the  militia,  the 
four  senior  magistrates,  and  the  commissioners  of  the  tax. 
"  If  not  recruited  in  thirty  days,  the  men  were  to  be 
drafted." 

"August  14th,  1780.  Went  to  the  Court  House,  in 
order  to  lay  off  the  County  and  militia  into  Districts  and 
Divisions." 


THE   FOUNDER'S   CHILDREN  109 

The  militia  for  South  Carolina,  and  the  continentals  for 
Gen.  Washington,  were  furnished  by  Amherst  without 
being  drafted. 

"  Delivered  Thomas  Jopling  25  pieces  of  Bacon  (221 
lbs.),  which  Henry  Martin,  the  commissioner,  took  on  ac- 
count of  the  Pubhc,  agreeable  to  Act  of  Assembly  at  $8 
per  lb.  =  $1768." 

"  August  30th.  Sold  the  pubHc  20  head  of  bullocks  and 
barren  cows,  taken  by  Henry  Martin,  commissioner,  and 
appraised  by  Young  Landrum  and  Ellis  Putney,  who  were 
chosen  and  sworn  for  that  purpose,  at  .£7390." 

Late  in  October  and  in  November,  he  was  busy  with 
sundry  military  matters  "occasioned  by  the  present  inva- 
sion," —  Gen.  LesUe's,  —  from  October  20  to  November  17, 
1780. 

On  December  9,  he  set  oif  on  his  way  to  the  Assembly. 
On  the  31st,  they  were  informed  in  Richmond  of  the  arrival 
of  a  fleet  of  twenty-seven  sail  in  our  bay ;  but  it  was  not 
certainly  known  that  it  was  a  hostile  fleet  until  January 
2,  1781.  Gov.  Thomas  Jefferson  at  once  called  out  one 
fourth  of  the  militia  from  Amherst  and  many  other  coun- 
ties. Col.  Cabell  set  out  for  home  on  the  evening  of  that 
day,  and,  I  suppose,  brought  the  governor's  order  to  the 
county  with  him,  as  he  took  an  active  interest  in  the  execu- 
tion of  it.     He  arrived  at  home  on  January  4,  1781. 

The  militia  of  Amherst,  from  January,  1776,  to  January, 
1781,  numbered  about  1200  men.  Of  these,  about  350 
had  entered  the  continental  service,  and  about  200  of  the 
remainder  had  seen  actual  service  as  militia  in  the  state 
service.  But  between  January  4  and  October  19,  1781, 
probably  every  able  man  remaining  in  the  county  was  em- 
ployed in  one  way  or  another  in  the  defense  of  the  State. 

On  January  5,  Arnold  reached  Richmond,  and  Simcoe 
destroyed  the  foundry,  etc.,  at  Westham  on  the  same  day. 
And  the  British  continued  upon  the  sacred  soil  of  the  Old 
Dominion  from  this  time  until  after  the  surrender  of  Corn- 
walHs  at  Yorktown. 


110  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

Prior  to  the  governor's  order  of  January  2,  the  Assembly 
had  passed  another  "  Act  for  recruiting  this  State's  quota 
of  Troops  to  serve  in  the  Continental  Army,"  under  which 
Amherst  was  to  furnish  fifty-five  more  men.  And  also, 
"  An  Act  for  supplying  the  army  with  clothes,  provisions, 
and  wagons,"  under  which  Amherst  was  to  furnish  thirty- 
eio"ht  suits  of  clothes,  etc.  "  The  four  senior  magistrates 
and  the  field  ofiicers  to  divide  the  county  into  as  many  dis- 
tricts as  there  are  suits  of  clothes,  and  each  of  such  districts 
to  furnish  one  suit." 

"  Jan'y  30th  1781.  Sent  my  son  Will  to  William  Lov- 
ing's to  get  him  to  act  as  clerk  to  the  Justices  in  the  exe- 
cution of  the  Act  for  supplying  the  army  with  clothes, 
provisions  and  wagons." 

"  Jan'y  31st.  WilHam  Loving  came  down  and  agreed  to 
undertake  the  office  of  clerk  in  the  presence  of  Abraham 
Warwick,  altho'  the  Act  had  not  been  sent  up." 

"  Feb'y  3rd.  At  5  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  I  received  by 
John  Brown  express  an  extract  of  the  Act,"  etc. 

"  Feb'y  5th.  Received  at  the  Court  House  the  above 
Act  in  full  and  there  being  a  sufficient  number  of  Justices 
present,  I  immediately  proceeded  to  the  execution  of  it." 
(Col.  William  Cabell,  in  his  Diary.) 

The  taxes  of  1781,  for  supplying  the  army  with  men, 
clothes,  provisions,  etc.,  were  enormous.  The  regular  land 
and  personal  property  taxes  were  very  high,  and  there  were 
special  taxes  on  brandy,  whiskey,  tobacco,  plate,  specie, 
paper  money,  slaves,  horses,  cattle,  carriages  (wheels),  glass 
windows,  billiard  tables,  marriage  and  ordinary  licenses, 
conveyances,  etc. ;  poll-taxes,  specific  taxes,  taxes  payable 
in  certain  enumerated  commodities  —  tobacco,  corn,  bacon, 
flax,  hemp,  etc.  There  was  not  just  a  single  tax  ticket  per 
annum,  but  there  were  taxes  for  January,  April,  Septem- 
ber, etc.  Taxes  were  not  due  to  the  county  alone,  but  sev- 
eral of  them  were  due  in  the  several  districts  of  the  county. 
Col.  William  Cabell  paid  taxes  to  Amherst  County,  as  well 
as  in  the  third,  fifth,  twenty-sixth,  and  twenty-ninth  dis- 


THE  FOUNDER'S  CHILDREN  111 

tricts  of  Amherst ;  and  also  on  property  in  Buckingham 
and  Henrico.  Most  of  his  tax  receipts  are  now  missing, 
but  enough  remain  to  give  an  idea  of  the  amount  paid  by 
him  in  Amherst  in  1781.  In  March,  he  paid  1232  pounds 
of  tobacco  on  "the  tax  payable  in  certain  enumerated  com- 
modities," and  ninety-four  bushels  of  corn  on  account  of 
his  "  Specifick  tax  "  to  William  Loving,  commissary. 

"  April  29th,  delivered  Hugh  Rose,  the  County  Lieu- 
tenant, a  suit  of  clothes  for  a  soldier,  agreeable  to  the  Act 
of  Assembly  for  that  purpose." 

"  May  7th.  Paid  James  Dillard  Jr.,  Collector  in  the  5th 
District,  my  tax  of  £243.  therein." 

"July  24th.    Paid  John    Loving    £1058.— for   Alexr 

Reid   Jr.    my   proportion    of   raising  a  man    for   the  5th 

D.  .  .      ,, 
1  vision. 

"  Septr  3rd.  Paid  Alexr  Reid  Jr.  £424.  —  my  propor- 
tion of  money  for  the  hire  of  a  soldier  for  the  5th  District 
for  18  months." 

"  May  7th.  Paid  Thomas  Hawkins,  Collector  in  the  3rd 
District  my  tax  of  £5225.  —  therein,  agreeable  to  the  Act 
for  recruiting  this  State's  quota  of  troops  to  serve  in  the 
Continental  Army." 

"May  10th.  Paid  James  Matthews,  Collector  in  the 
29th  district  306  dollars,  for  my  proportion  of  the  beef  in 
that  district,  also,  one  hat,  and  pair  stockings." 

"  May  11th.  Paid  John  Loving,  Deputy  SherifP,  the 
county  tax,  £3370.  — ,  including  the  January  tax,  and 
£370.  for  the  purchase  of  a  Wagon." 

"  May  26th.  Finished  distilling  152  gallons  of  whiskey 
liable  to  taxation." 

"  July  2nd.  Delivered  Wm.  Loving  the  Treasurer's  re- 
receipt  for  taxes  on  Marriage  and  Ordinary  Licences,  and 
on  Conveyances  to  the  10th  of  May  last." 

"July  10th.  Let  Anthony  Rucker  have  for  the  public 
service  507  lbs  bacon." 

"July  13th.  Sent  by  Ambrose  Baber  59  lbs  bacon  to 
Capt.  Bohannon  on  an  order  from  Thomas  Anderson  for 
the  public  service." 


112  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

"July  2J:th.  Paid  John  Loving,  Deputy  Sheriff,  the 
County  tax  (including  the  April  tax),  £2.285. — ." 

"  Augt  25th.  Let  John  Newman,  a  disabled  soldier,  have 
a  middling  of  bacon  for  my  subscription  to  him."  "  Made 
Daniel  Conner  a  present  of  20  shad  and  a  middling  of 
bacon  as  he  was  a  poor  man,  who  left  his  family  and  has 
been  three  years  in  the  service  of  his  country."  "  Made  a 
present  of  my  old  mare,  Reynolds,  to  Jesse  Bryant,  who 
appeared  to  be  an  object  of  charity,  and  assured  me  that 
he  had  three  sons  in  the  service,"  etc.,  etc.  "  Paid  Henry 
Harper  £31.  —  allowed  his  son  Henry  (a  soldier)  for  defi- 
ciency in  clothing." 

"  Sept.  14th.  Killed  a  steer  for  the  militia  which  are 
now  on  their  march  to  join  the  Marquis  "  (Lafayette). 

"  Oct.  13.  Delivered  Hendrick  Arnold,  assistant  Com- 
missary, 3  beeves  for  the  use  of  the  Public,  also,  a  beef  for 
the  26th  district,  in  presence  of  John  Bibb  and  Wm. 
Gillespy." 

"  Paid  John  Loving,  Deputy  SherifF,  £2042.  —  being 
the  September  tax,  and  £64.  —  the  tax  on  glass  Win- 
dows." 

"  Delivered  John  Biggs  200  lbs  of  drest  pork  in  lieu  of 
400  lbs  of  beef  allowed  the  wife  and  children  of  John 
Bio'o-s  Jr.,  one  of  the  18  months  drafts  from  the  Militia  of 
Amherst  County." 

It  is  true  that  the  money  was  not  worth  much  (the  scale 
of  depreciation  in  values  at  the  beginning  of  the  year  was 
75,  at  the  end  1000),  but  many  of  the  taxes  were  payable 
in  commodities  only ;  and  I  think  there  were  at  least  four 
county  taxes  paid  during  the  year,  and  at  least  four  dif- 
ferent taxes  in  each  of  the  districts,  as  well  as  the  numerous 
private  appeals  to  his  charity. 

[February  14,  1781.  The  prisoners  of  the  Cowpens  were 
at  New  London  (Bedford  Court  House),  and  CornwaUis  was 
at  Boyd's  Ferry  on  Dan  River.] 

"  Feb'y  23rd.  Let  Capt.  Young  Landrum  have  two 
smoothe  bore  guns,  well  fixed,  for  the  Mihtia,  which  were 


THE  FOUNDER'S  CHILDREN  113 

ordered  from  this  county,  against  the  enemy,  near  Dan 
River."  "  Feby  27th.  Capt.  Landrum  with  about  30  men, 
who  had  been  at  the  mouth  of  Tye  River  from  friday  last, 
marched  by  my  house  on  their  way  to  join  Genl  Greene 
to  the  Southward.  The  remainder  of  the  lower  Battahon 
(of  Amherst)  were  ordered  to  Stovall's  Ferry,  at  least 
50  miles  out  of  their  way,  to  Moore's  Ordinary  in  Prince 
Edward,  where  they  were  ordered  to  Rendez-vous.  Strange 
orders  and  conduct  when  the  enemy  are  almost  at  our 
doors." 

Several  other  companies  went  from  this  county  at  this 
time. 

The  Assembly  met  in  Richmond  on  March  1.  Arnold's 
forces  were  in  and  near  Portsmouth. 

"  March  3rd.  Set  off  on  my  way  to  the  Assembly." 
"  March  5th.  Gave  my  attendance  in  the  Senate." 
"March  22.  By  the  Treasurer  £1078.  12s.,  my  wages  as 
a  Senator  for  the  March  Session  1781." 

"  March  21:th.  Came  home  from  the  Assembly." 
His  time  as  senator  expired  with  this  session,  he  having 
occupied  the  position  since  September,  1776,  as  long  as  he 
could  under  the  rule  of  "  Rotation  "  in  office  laid  down  in 
the  first  constitution  of  Virginia.  On  the  2d  of  April  fol- 
lowing, he  was  elected  a  delegate  from  Amherst  "  by  the 
voice  of  the  whole  County." 

The  7th  of  May  was  the  day  appointed  by  law  for  the 
meeting  of  the  Assembly  at  Richmond.  The  British  Gen- 
eral PhiUips  and  his  army  were  then  near  City  Point,  ready 
to  swoop  down  upon  them.  On  the  10th,  the  few  members 
who  had  arrived,  upon  the  information  of  the  approach  of 
the  enemy,  adjourned  the  Assembly  to  meet  at  Charlottes- 
ville on  the  21th. 

"May  12th.  Set  off  on  my  way  to  the  Assembly  and 
went  to  Col.  George  Carrington's  [in  Cumberland  County], 
where  I  was  informed  the  Assembly  had  adjourned  to  Char- 
lottesville to  the  24th  inst.  —  and  I  returned  home  the 
13th." 


114  THE   CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

"  May  18th.  Our  Draft  took  place  and  the  people  behaved 
very  orderly  on  the  occasion." 

"  May  27th.  Set  off  on  my  way  to  Charlottesville  on  the 
Assembly,  distance  40.  miles." 

"  May  28th.  Took  my  seat  in  the  House  of  Delegates." 
This  was  the  first  day  on  which  the  Assembly  was  formed 
to  proceed  to  business. 

"  June  4th  (Monday).  The  Assembly  was  put  to  flight 
by  the  enemy's  light-horse.  Adjourned  to  Staunton  in  Au- 
gusta, as  a  place  of  greater  safety." 

There  is  no  entry  in  the  diary  between  June  4  and  June 
7,  but  it  is  traditional  that  Col.  Cabell  and  several  other 
gentlemen  (Mr.  Jefferson  being  one  of  them)  arrived  at 
"  Union  Hill "  before  day  on  the  morning  of  June  5.  Mr. 
Jefferson  remained  a  day,  and  then  went  on  to  his  seat  in 
Bedford.  Wirt's  "  Life  of  Patrick  Henry  "  states  that  the 
Assembly  met  in  Staunton  on  June  7,  and,  on  a  false  report 
of  Tarleton's  approach,  again  broke  up,  and  dispersed  on 
the  10th.  This  is  true  as  far  as  it  goes,  but  they  returned 
the  next  day  (the  11th). 

The  diary  says  :  — 

"  June  12th.  Set  off  on  my  way  to  Staunton  on  the 
Assembly." 

"  June  13th.  Took  my  seat  in  the  House  of  Delegates." 

"  June  23rd.  The  Assembly  broke  up.  Paid  Wm.  Lewis 
1500  Dollars,  my  expenses  for  boarding  with  him." 

"  June  24.  Returned  home  from  Staunton." 

"  June  25.  The  Speaker  of  the  Senate  and  of  the  House 
of  Delegates  went  from  my  House." 

On  June  12,  before  he  reached  Staunton,  he  was  elected 
a  member  of  the  Council  of  State.  The  following  is  a 
copy  of  the  original  resolution,  notifying  him,  which  I 
have : — 

"  In  The  House  of  Delegates 
The  12th  of  June  1781. 

"  Resolved  that  William  Cabell,  Samuel  Hardy,  and 
Samuel  McDowell  Esquires  be  appointed  Members  of  the 


THE  FOUNDER'S  CHILDREN  115 

Privy  Council,  or  Council  of  State,  in  the  room  of  those 
who  have  resigned.  They  having  been  so  elected  by  joint 
ballot  of  both  Houses  of  Assembly. 

Teste. 
John  Beckley,  C.  H.  De. 
"  12th  June  1781. 

Agreed  to  by  the  Senate. 
Will.  Drew,  C.  S." 

He  could  not  hold  seats  in  the  Council  and  in  the  House 
of  Delegates  at  the  same  time.  It  was  optional  with  him 
which  he  should  take.  When  he  arrived  on  June  13,  he 
decided  to  decline  the  Council  seat,  and  took  his  seat  in  the 
House  of  Delegates.  I  do  not  know  what  reasons  brought 
him  to  this  conclusion.  He  probably  thought  that  he 
could  render  his  constituents  (who  had  so  recently  elected 
him  unanimously)  and  the  cause  more  service  in  the  Assem- 
bly. After  his  return  from  Staunton,  he  spent  much  of  his 
time  in  "  raising  men  "  for  the  army,  collecting  provisions, 
wagons,  boats,  etc.  These  were  the  darkest  days  of  the 
Revolution  in  Virginia,  but  "  the  darkest  hour  is  just  be- 
fore day." 

"  October  29th  1781.  Killed  my  stag,  and  invited  com- 
pany to  rejoice  over  the  surrender  of  Cornwallis  and  his 
army.  On  the  17th  instant,  Cornwallis  and  his  army  sur- 
rendered to  his  Excellency  General  Washington." 

[The  Articles  of  Capitulation  were  signed  on  the  19th.] 

**  Novr.  4th.  Received  the  Governor's  (Nelson)  proclama- 
tion for  convening  the  Assembly  on  the  5th  instant." 

He  was  absent  from  home  in  attendance  on  the  Assem- 
bly from  Nov^ember  10  to  December  17,  1781. 

"  Jan'y  5th  1782.  Set  off  on  my  way  to  the  Assembly 
and  went  as  low  as  Westham  where  I  heard  it  had  broken 
up  —  and  returned  home  the  9th." 

"  Feb'y  4th  1782.  Signed  a  License  for  Benjamin  Cole- 
man a  Baptist  minister  to  celebrate  the  rites  of  matrimony  — 
pr  order  of  Court." 

The  diary  from  February  28,  1782,  to  July  15,  1783,  is 


116  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

missing.  It  is  this  part  of  the  diary  to  which  Mr.  Grigsby 
refers  in  his  "  Virginia  Convention  of  1776,"  p.  116,  note. 

Col.  Cabell  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Delegates  in 
the  Assemblies  of  May  and  October,  1782,  and  May,  1783. 
By  the  last  of  these  he  was  appointed  one  of  the  trustees  of 
Hampden  Sidney  College. 

His  diary  is  complete  from  July  15,  1783,  to  December 
31,  1795. 

He  was  absent  from  home  attending  the  Assembly  from 
November  24  to  December  25,  1783. 

"Amherst  County,  May  Court  1784.  William  Cabell 
Esq.  is  appointed  Treasurer  for  this  County,  and  to  receive 
from  the  Sheriffs  the  balance  that  is,  or  may  become,  due 
from  them  to  this  County,  and  return  an  account  thereof  to 
the  Court."  He  continued  to  hold  this  office  until  about 
1792.  The  county  government  had  been  rather  on  a  mili- 
tary footing ;  it  was  now  assuming  a  more  civil  shape,  under 
the  guidance  of  its  officials.  Col.  Cabell  was  the  presiding 
magistrate,  treasurer,  etc. 

The  news  of  the  treaty  of  May  13,  1784,  at  Paris,  was 
first  received  by  him  (in  Amherst)  on  August  22  (over  100 
days ;  it  could  now  be  received  on  the  same  day). 

January  5,  1785,  the  Assembly  incorporated  "  The  James 
River  Company  "  "  for  clearing  and  extending  the  naviga- 
tion of  James  River  from  tide-water  upwards  to  the  highest 
parts  practicable  on  the  main  branch  thereof."  Col.  Cabell 
was  appointed  one  of  the  managers  of  this  company,  for 
opening  subscription-books,  etc. 

The  parish  had  been  divided  in  1778,  and  it  was  cus- 
tomary to  divide  the  county  soon  after ;  but  Col.  Cabell 
was  opposed  to  this,  and  it  was  not  done  during  his  life, 
althouofh  orofanized  efforts  to  do  so  were  made  in  the  fall 
of  1785  and  several  times  thereafter. 

September  19,  1785,  he  was  one  of  the  vestrymen 
appointed  by  Amherst  Parish  to  settle  the  proceeds  of  the 
sale  of  the  glebe  with  Lexington  Parish. 

On  October  20,  1785,  the   stockholders  of  the   James 


THE  FOUNDER'S   CHILDREN  117 

River  Company  met  and  elected  George  Washington  presi- 
dent; and  John  Harris,  David  Ross,  William  Cabell,  and 
Edmund  Randolph,  directors.  How  long  he  continued  to 
hold  this  office,  I  do  not  know.  The  shares  of  the  company 
were  $200  each.  He  subscribed  for  two,  made  the  first 
payment  thereon  on  December  26,  1785,  and  the  last  on 
December  1,  1791,  at  which  time  he  was  still  a  director. 
His  diary  shows  that  he  went  twice  every  year  to  Rich- 
mond, —  early  in  the  summer  and  late  in  the  fall.  Those 
who  favored  the  division  of  the  county,  in  1785  having 
failed  to  carry  their  point,  in  October,  1786,  made  an  effort 
to  have  the  court  house  removed  from  Col.  Cabell's  land ; 
but  they  failed  in  this  also. 

In  1787,  he  was  again  elected  a  member  of  the  House  of 
Delegates,  with  his  son  Sam  as  the  other  (the  two  members 
being  members  of  the  same  family).  "  June  19  to  25  in 
Richmond."  "  Oct  12th.  Set  off  to  the  Assembly."  "  Oct 
15th.  Gave  my  attendance  in  the  House  of  Delegates." 
"  Jan'y  8th  1788,  The  Assembly  broke  up  after  setting  12 
weeks  and  1  day." 

"  Jan'y  13th,  1788,  Returned  home  from  the  Assembly." 
Washington,  writing  to  Madison  ^  on  October  22,  1787, 
reports  that  Col.  WilHam  Cabell  was  one  of  the  few  mem- 
bers of  the  General  Assembly  opposed  to  the  Constitution. 

"  March  3rd.  Samuel  J.  Cabell  and  myself  nearly  unan- 
imously elected  members  of  Convention." 

This  was  the  Convention  which  was  to  ratify  or  reject  the 
Constitution  of  the  United  States.  Some  of  the  leading 
men  in  the  State  opposed,  while  others  favored  ratification. 
The  elections  were  more  hotly  contested  on  the  hustings 
and  at  the  polls  than  any  previous  thereto.  Yet  such  was 
the  popularity  of,  and  confidence  in,  Col.  Cabell  and  his  son 
Sam  —  both  of  whom  opposed  the  Constitution  as  it  was  — 
that  they  were  "  nearly  unanimously  elected,"  when  the 
neighboring  counties  were  either  carried  for  their  party  by 
a  close  vote,  or  by  the  opposition. 

^  See  Rives'  Madison,  vol.  ii.  p.  535. 


118  THE   CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

"May  30tli  1788.  Set  off  on  my  way  to  the  Conven- 
tion." 

"  June  2nd.  gave  my  attendance  in  the  Convention." 
This  was  the  day  on  which  the  Convention  first  met,  and  on 
the  same  day  Col.  Cabell  was  appointed  one  of  "  the  Com- 
mittee of  Privileges  and  Elections."  Day  after  day  the 
Convention,  in  "  Committee  of  the  whole  Convention,"  re- 
viewed the  Constitution  clause  after  clause,  and  the  debate 
at  times  was  warm.  The  most  severe  personal  quarrel  to 
which  the  discussion  gave  birth  occurred  on  Monday,  June 
9,  between  Edmund  Randolph  and  Patrick  Henry.  On  the 
evening  of  that  day,  Col.  William  Cabell,  "  as  the  friend  of 
Henry,  waited  on  Randolph,"  and  settled  the  affair  amica- 
bly. "  On  Tuesday  morning,  when  it  became  known  that 
the  unpleasant  affair  had  been  settled  without  a  resort  to 
the  field,  and  that  a  reconciliation  between  the  parties  had 
been  effected,  both  the  great  divisions  in  the  House  were 
sensibly  reheved."  On  June  25,  after  the  whole  Constitu- 
tion had  in  this  way  been  carefully  reviewed,  it  was  moved : 
"  Resolved,  that  it  is  the  opinion  of  this  Committee,  That 
the  said  Constitution  be  ratified." 

Then  a  counter-motion  was  made  to  substitute  in  lieu  of 
this  resolution  the  following  :  — 

"  Resolved,  that  previous  to  the  ratification  of  the  New 
Constitution  of  Government,  recommended  by  the  late  Fed- 
eral Convention,  a  Declaration  of  Rights,  asserting  and 
securing  from  encroachment  the  great  principles  of  Civil 
and  Religious  Liberty,  and  the  unalienable  rights  of  the 
People,  together  with  amendments  to  the  most  exception- 
able parts  of  the  said  Constitution  of  Government,  ought  to 
be  referred  by  this  Convention  to  the  other  States  in  the 
American  Confederacy,  for  their  consideration." 

This  last  resolution  "  passed  in  the  negative."  Ayes,  80. 
Noes,  88. 

The  Cabells  voted  Aye. 

The  first  resolution  then  "  passed  in  the  affirmative." 
Ayes,  89.     Noes,  79. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  CHILDREN  119 

The  Cabells  and  the  majority  of  their  kin  voted  No. 

Although  the  minority  failed  in  having  the  amendments, 
etc.,  referred  "  to  the  other  States  "  as  they  wished  to  do, 
by  resolutions  which  passed  on  June  27  they  succeeded 
in  having  them  "  recommended  to  the  consideration  of  the 
Congress,  which  shall  first  assemble  under  the  said  Consti- 
tution." It  was  then  moved  to  strike  out  the  third  article 
(relative  to  the  laying  of  direct  taxes  by  the  Congress)  in 
these  amendments ;  but  this  motion  "  passed  in  the  Neg- 
ative." Ayes,  65.  Noes,  85.  The  Cabells  voting  No, 
and  Paul  Carrinsfton  for  the  first  time  voting:  with  them. 
A  great  deal  has  been  written  about  this  very  important 
Convention.  Except  for  the  influence  of  Washington  in 
favor  of  the  Constitution,  it  would  not  have  been  ratified 
in  Virginia ;  a  change  of  six  votes  would  have  defeated  it. 
A  majority  of  the  members  from  east  of  the  Blue  Ridge 
were  opposed  to  it,  as  it  was,  without  amendments.  It  was 
carried  by  the  vote  from  over  the  mountains. 

The  Convention  adjourned  on  June  27  ;  but  the  Assem- 
bly had  met  on  the  23d,  and  Col.  Cabell  remained  in  Rich- 
mond in  attendance  in  that  body  until  July  1.  He  returned 
home  prior  to  July  6. 

"  Octr.  19th  1788.    Set  off  on  my  way  to  the  Assembly." 

"  Octr.  21.    Arrived  in  Richmond. 

"  Octr.  22.    Took  my  seat  in  the  House  of  Delegates." 

The  Assembly  reassembled  on  October  20,  but  no  quorum 
appeared  in  either  house  on  the  first  day.  The  House  of 
Delegates  was  able  to  organize  on  the  second  day.  On 
October  27  both  houses  met  for  the  first  time  "  in  the  new 
Capitol  on  Shockoe  Hill,"  and  have  continued  to  meet  there 
ever  since.  The  Senate  had  a  quorum  for  the  first  time  on 
October  28,  and  this  was  the  first  day  on  which  the  General 
Assembly  went  into  full  operation  in  the  new  Capitol.  Col. 
Cabell  was  chairman  of  "  the  committee  of  propositions  and 
grievances." 

November  13,  the  town  of  Warminster  was  established 
by  Act  of  Assembly  on  the  land  of  Nicholas  Cabell,  the 


120  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

trustees  being  William  Cabell,  Samuel  Jordan  Cabell,  Wil- 
liam Cabell,  Jr.,  and  nine  others. 

December  3,  Col.  Cabell  was  on  "  the  committee  of  the 
House  of  Delegates  to  meet  a  committee  from  the  Senate  in 
the  conference  chamber  and  jointly  with  them  to  examine 
the  ballot  boxes  and  report  to  the  House  on  whom  a  major- 
ity of  votes  should  fall  for  Governor."  Beverley  Randolph, 
Esq.,  received  the  majority.  Col.  Cabell  "  set  off  from  the 
Assembly  on  his  way  home"  on  December  16,  and  got 
home  on  the  19th.  This  was  the  last  Assembly  he  ever 
attended.  He  had  represented  his  county,  or  his  district, 
in  the  public  Assembhes  for  thirty  years.  He  was  now  in 
his  fifty-ninth  year.  He  had  been  for  many  years  giving 
his  services  to  the  public,  and  it  was  almost  necessary  for 
him  to  devote  the  remainder  of  his  life  to  putting  his  nu- 
merous and  extensive  private  interests  into  a  proper  shape 
for  manao-ement  and  distribution. 

On  January  7,  1789,  Col.  William  Cabell  was  before  the 
people  as  a  candidate,  I  think,  for  the  last  time.  On  that 
day  the  election  took  place  for  a  presidential  elector  from 
this  district,  "  when  every  man  in  the  county  who  was 
polled  voted  for  him." 

He  was  long  afterwards  the  presiding  magistrate  of  the 
county,  and  vestryman  of  the  parish,  and  held  other  posi- 
tions of  trust,  mostly  private ;  but  I  think  that  the  last 
public  act  of  his  life  was  to  cast  his  vote  as  an  elector  for 
George  Washington  as  our  first  President. 

He  had  served  his  country  when  her  trials  were  but  com- 
mencing ;  he  had  served  her  to  his  utmost  when  she  was  in 
her  sorest  travails ;  he  had  served  her  until  he  saw  her 
safely  through  the  tempest,  till  he  saw  her  "  rise  superior  to 
the  storm  ;  "  and  when  he  saw  Washington  at  the  helm,  he 
knew  the  Ship  of  State  was  safe,  and  felt  that  he  could 
safely  retire  and  take  his  rest.  Although  he  retired  from 
active  poHtics,  he  continued  to  take  the  most  earnest  inter- 
est in  the  public  welfare,  and  almost  to  the  day  of  his 
death  was  a   stirring,   busy   man,   devoting  his   time,   his 


THE   FOUNDER'S   CHILDREN  121 

energy,  his  talents,  and  his  means  to  the  advancement  of 
education,  of  agriculture,  of  manufacture,  and  of  internal 
navigation.  And  although  he  favored  rehgious  liberty,  he 
was  a  true  friend  to  his  own  church,  and  during  life  was  a 
constant  liberal  contributor  to  her  support  and  to  the  sup- 
port of  her  clergy. 

Mr.  Grigsby  had  reference  to  many  men  who  had  known 
him,  was  in  full  possession  of  the  material  necessary  for  its 
preparation,  and  I  believe  that  the  sketch  of  Col.  William 
Cabell  in  Grigsby' s  "  Virginia  Convention  of  1776  "  (pp. 
111:-119)  is  a  fair  one.  He  was  thrown  upon  "  the  times 
which  tried  men's  souls,"  and  he  passed  the  ordeal  fully  to 
the  satisfaction  of  every  public  man's  most  scrutinizing  crit- 
ics, his  constituents.  He  held  positions  of  trust  and  respon- 
sibility from  his  twenty-first  year  until  the  day  of  his  death. 
His  great  popularity  with  his  people  and  their  implicit  con- 
fidence in  him  were  wonderful ;  they  never  wavered.  For 
thirty-odd  years  they  gave  him,  almost  with  one  voice,  the 
very  highest  offices  to  which  their  votes  could  elect  him. 
From  his  entrance  into  public  life  until  he  retired  there- 
from, he  was  elected  whenever  he  stood  for  office,  without 
opposition  or  almost  unanimously. 

He  died  March  23,  1798.  His  attending  physician  dur- 
ing his  last  illness  and  one  of  the  witnesses  to  his  will  was 
Dr.  James  Murray  Brown,  a  native  of  the  shire  of  Gallo- 
way, Scotland,  and  an  elder  brother  of  Dr.  Thomas  Brown 
the  metaphysician.  His  will  was  written  October  7,  1795, 
and  admitted  to  record  June  18,  1798.  William  and  Lan- 
don  Cabell,  the  executors,  giving  bond  in  the  sum  of  ,£30,000, 
with  Samuel  Jordan  CabeU,  Robert  Rives,  and  William  B. 
Hare  as  securities. 

After  disposing  of  about  thirty  thousand  acres  of  land 
(he  had  already  given  most  of  his  children  fair  estates),  a 
large  number  of  slaves,  and  personal  property,  the  will  ends 
with  the  following  lines,  better  than  great  riches  :  "  Item  — 
as  my  estate  is  free  from  debt  and  every  other  incumbrance, 
it  is  my  will  and  desire  that  it  may  not  be  appraised.  .  .  . 


122  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

And  thus  having  set  my  house  in  order  by  settling  my 
temporal  affairs,  I  cheerfully  submit  my  eternal  concerns 
to  the  wise  and  merciful  Disposer  of  All  Things,  and 
patiently  ivalt  his  mandate  for  my  great  change."" 

Let  the  mind  consider  the  status  of  this  region  and  of 
this  country  in  1730,  —  the  year  of  his  birth,  —  then  let  it 
come  down  with  him  and  view  all  the  various  chano-es  which 
he  saw  take  place  before  his  death  in  1798,  in  this  region 
and  in  this  country,  and  it  will  be  seen  that  his  life  covered 
one  of  the  most  important  and  critical  eras  in  our  history. 

The  following  extracts  from  a  letter  written  by  the  late 
Hon.  Josej)h  C.  Cabell  to  the  late  N.  F.  Cabell,  Esq.,  on 
September  28,  1854,  will  explain  themselves :  — 

"  In  compliance  with  the  request  of  Mr.  William  C.  Rives, 
communicated  to  me  lately  by  you,  I  will  give  you  my  rec- 
ollections of  Col.  William  Cabell,  Senr.,  of  Union  Hill,  and 
particularly  as  to  his  personal  appearance  and  habitual 
dress. 

"  That  gentleman  died  in  the  spring  of  1798,  when  I  was 
in  the  second  year  of  my  attendance  as  a  student  at  William 
and  Mary  College.  But  although  upwards  of  a  half  cen- 
tury has  elapsed  since  I  was  in  the  habit  of  seeing  him,  yet, 
as  he  was  a  very  remarkable  personage,  who  made  a  strong 
impression  on  all  who  approached  him,  my  recollections 
respecting  him  are  very  distinct. 

"He  was  about  six  feet  high,  with  large  frame,  well 
formed,  erect  carriage,  and  rather  corpulent  in  the  latter 
part  of  his  life.  His  features  were  remarkable  for  strength, 
his  nose  slightly  aquiline,  his  forehead  was  capacious  and 
well  developed ;  his  head  became  bald  as  he  advanced  to 
old  age. 

"  There  was  nothing  peculiar  in  his  dress,  being  that  of 
the  planters  of  good  condition  in  his  day,  namely :  a  round 
hat,  a  white  cambric  stock  buckled  behind,  a  long-tail 
coat,  a  single-breasted  waist-coat  with  flap  pockets,  short 
breeches  buckled  at  the  knee,  long  stockings,  and  shoes 
with  large  buckles. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  CHILDREN  123 

"I  never  saw  him  with  a  square  or  cocked  hat,  and 
never  heard  of  his  wearinsr  one,  althougfh  for  augfht  I  know 
he  may  have  done  so  previous  to  and  during  the  Revolu- 
tion. Such  hats  were  commonly  worn  by  country  gentle- 
men previous  to  the  Revolutionary  war,  but  fell  into  disuse 
shortly  after  that  period. 

"  The  habitual  expression  of  his  countenance  was  grave, 
thoughtful,  and  dignified.  He  was  generally  taciturn,  but 
in  entertaining  his  friends  and  acquaintances  he  became 
affable  and  communicative ;  and  he  possessed  the  happy 
talent  of  adapting  his  conversation  to  the  ages  and  condi- 
tions of  his  associates.  His  thoughts  were,  however,  always 
very  briefly  expressed,  and  bore  the  impress  of  the  sound 
judgment  and  powerful  mind  with  which  he  was  gifted. 

"  His  appearance  was  eminently  dignified  and  command- 
ing ;  in  this  respect  he  was  equal,  if  not  superior,  to  any  one 
I  have  ever  seen,  save  Mr  Jefferson  and  Mr.  Clay. 

"  His  father,  the  first  Dr.  Cabell,  was  a  man  of  rare 
endowments  and  extensive  learning ;  but  I  do  not  know 
that  Col.  Cabell  was  much  given  to  literature.  He  lived  in 
revolutionary  times,  and  his  active  mind  was  chiefly  occu- 
pied with  men  and  things. 

"  In  the  private  relations  of  husband,  father,  and  brother, 
no  one  could  be  more  respected  and  beloved  than  he  was. 
But  the  display  of  his  virtues  was  not  Hmited  to  his  family 
circle,  and  no  man  ever  received  a  warmer  popular  admira- 
tion than  he  did  ;  an  admiration  which  sometimes  amounted 
to  adoration,  for  the  late  Judge  Cabell  assured  me  that  men 
had  been  known  to  stoop  down  and  kiss  his  feet,  for  which 
they  were  gently,  but  firmly  reproved,  for  no  man  was  in 
heart  more  opposed  to  the  spirit  of  man-worship  than  he. 

"  I  leave  to  others  to  render  account  of  his  course  of  ser- 
vice in  the  public  bodies  of  the  State  previous  to,  and  dur- 
ing the  Revolutionary  struggles.  Although  not  an  orator, 
he  was  a  member  of  great  weight  and  efficiency,  and  one  of 
the  leaders  of  the  public  councils  in  those  stormy  and  per- 
ilous times. 


124  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

"  He  was  a  man  of  very  methodical  habits,  and  kept  a 
Diary,  written  in  his  own  neat  and  beautiful  hand,  of  the 
daily  operations  and  occurrences  on  the  various  plantations 
on  his  home  estate,  all  of  which,  in  the  active  period  of  his 
life,  he  visited  twice  in  the  course  of  the  day. 

"  He  was  a  man  of  considerable  wealth  for  the  region  of 
country  in  which  he  lived.  I  remember  to  have  heard  it 
stated  that  he  held  25,000  acres  of  the  best  lands  in  his 
county  (now  Amherst  and  Nelson).  He  resided  on  his  river 
estate,  which  occupied  the  beautiful  and  fertile  valley  of 
James  river,  from  the  mouth  of  Tye  river  down  to  the  head 
of  Swift  Islands,  a  distance  of  some  six  miles.  About  mid- 
way of  this  valley,  on  a  fine  swelling  hill  overlooking  it,  he 
erected  his  spacious  dweUing  in  a  position  commanding  a 
view  of  the  rich  bottoms,  the  ivy  cliffs  on  the  opposite  side, 
the  gentle  river  flowing  between  them,  and  the  distant 
mountains  sinking  down  and  disappearing  in  the  south- 
western horizon.  The  selection  was  as  creditable  to  him 
as  a  man  of  taste,  as  his  methodical  habits  were  to  him  as  a 
man  of  business. 

"His  dwelling  was  the  theatre  of  a  magnificent  hospital- 
ity embracing  his  poorer  as  well  as  his  more  wealthy  coun- 
trymen. He  was  singularly  gifted  with  the  talent  for  enter- 
taining large  companies  ;  attending  personally  to  them  in 
succession,  quietly  and  without  seeming  effort;  providing 
for  all,  and  making  all  feel  easy,  contented,  and  happy. 

"  The  ashes  of  this  admirable  citizen,  statesman,  and 
patriot  repose  beside  those  of  his  most  excellent  wife,  and 
others  of  the  family,  in  the  burying-ground  at  *  Union 
Hill,'  the  place  of  his  residence." 

I  will  append  the  following  notes  to  the  foregoing  descrip- 
tion, because  "  Union  Hill "  was  in  many  respects  an  exam- 
ple of  many  of  the  old  homes  of  the  Cabells  and  their  kin. 

The  low  grounds  in  front  of  the  present  "  Union  Hill " 
house  were  granted  to  Dr.  William  Cabell  by  patent  from 
the  Crown  of  Great  Britain  (through  its  representative,  the 
governor  of  Virginia)  on  September  12,  1738,  and  deeded 


THE  FOUNDER'S  CHILDREN  125 

by  the  old  doctor  to  his  son  William  on  May  2, 1763.  The 
ground  on  which  the  house  stands  was  granted  by  royal 
patent  to  Col.  William  Cabell  the  elder,  on  August  20, 
1760.  To  this  original  estate  he  continued  to  add,  up 
to,  during,  and  for  some  years  after  the  Revolution,  by 
grants  from  the  crown,  and  by  purchase  from  sundry  per- 
sons, namely :  Carter  Braxton,  Esq.  (a  signer  of  the  Decla- 
ration of  Independence),  Lunsford  Lomax,  Sr.,  Esq.,  Hon. 
Philip  Grimes,  Col.  James  Nevil,  Peter  Cartwright  (ancestor 
of  the  celebrated  Rev.  Peter  Cartwright,  of  the  Illinois  Con- 
ference), David  Shepherd,  escheator  of  the  commonwealth 
(the  escheated  lands  bf  Walter  King,  Esq.,  and  John  Har- 
mer,  Esq.,  of  Bristol,  England,  loyal  British  subjects),  Hon. 
Peyton  Randolph  (first  president  of  Congress),  and  others. 
This  tract,  when  completed,  extended  for  about  six  miles 
along  James  River,  east  of  Tye  River,  and  back  about  ten 
miles  in  a  northwesterly  direction,  some  distance  beyond 
the  present  Montreal  station,  and  contained  at  least  25,000 
acres.  I  have  a  complete  list  of  these  lands,  showing  how 
and  when  every  acre  was  acquired,  and  to  whom  and  in 
what  way  it  was  distributed  by  him  to  his  heirs  or  assigns. 
The  building  of  the  present  mansion  house  began  about 
1775.  The  country  soon  became  entirely  cut  off  from  the 
original  source  of  supply  (the  mother  country) ;  Col.  Cabell 
was  obliged  to  change  some  of  his  first  plans;  the  work 
was  in  various  ways  delayed  by  the  war  then  waging ;  and 
so  the  house  was  plainly,  but  substantially  built.  There  is 
no  carved  oak  or  other  fancy  work  as  there  was  in  his  first 
dwelling.  The  frame  is  of  wood,  the  underpinning,  cellar 
walls,  and  chimneys  of  brick.  The  wood  is  "  of  the  heart 
of  the  oak,  the  pine,  the  poplar,  and  the  walnut."  Every 
foot  of  this  timber  was  cut  on  Col.  Cabell's  land,  and  sawed 
by  the  hands  of  his  servants.  The  bricks  were  made  and 
the  lime  was  burnt  by  his  servants  on  his  land.  Every  nail, 
from  the  largest  spike  to  the  smallest  lathing  nail,  was  made 
by  hand,  and  most  of  them  in  his  own  blacksmith-shops.  Of 
course  the  brass  locks,  manufactured  hardware,  etc.,  pur- 


126  THE   CABELLS  AND   THEIR   KIN 

chased  from  merchants,  came  from  England  or  elsewhere ; 
but  in  the  main,  the  old  home  was  home-made.  The  build- 
ing was  not  completed  until  February  25,  1778,  on  which 
day  Col.  Cabell  tells  us  in  his  diary  that  "  Mrs.  Nicholas,  her 
dauohter  Betsy,  and  Judith  Jones,"  were  the  first  persons 
who  spent  the  night  within  its  walls. 

This  old  house,  built  in  the  early  years  of  the  Revolution, 
received  then  the  name  "  Union  Hill,"  and  it  is  now  an 
interesting  relic  of  that  historic  period  of  the  struggle  be- 
tween the  Union  of  States  and  the  Crown  of  Great  Britain. 
Save  that  the  original  shingle  roof  has  been  replaced  by 
tin,  two  porches  and  two  of  the  chimneys  repaired,  the 
house  to-day,  "  the  usual  wear  and  tear  excepted,"  is  about 
as  Col.  Cabell  left  it. 

The  house  could  not  be  considered  large  now  ;  but  for 
the  period  when  it  was  built,  and  for  the  part  of  the  country 
in  which  it  was  built,  it  was  large  —  forty  by  sixty  feet, 
two  stories,  a  basement  and  an  attic,  with  wainscoted  rooms 
and  halls,  and  ample  cellars. 

While  the  mansion  houses  of  those  days  were  not  espe- 
cially large  in  themselves,  to  the  rear  of  the  mansion,  con- 
veniently arranged,  were  many  appendages.  Of  these,  the 
following  buildings  were  under  the  especial  charge  of  the 
mistress,  "  the  Colonial  Dame,"  namely :  the  picking,  spin- 
ning, weaving,  and  dyeing  houses ;  the  sewing-rooms  and 
laundry ;  the  dairy,  the  store-room,  the  smoke-house,  the 
kitchen,  the  poultry-houses,  the  coach-house,  the  ice-house, 
the  cow-houses,  and  stable  of  horses  for  use  of  the  family ; 
the  park  or  grounds  around  the  dwelling,  the  garden, 
etc. ;  the  female  servants,  the  house  servants,  the  butler,  the 
gardener,  the  carriage  driver,  etc.  Of  course,  the  master 
also  had  an  eye  to  these,  but  the  manor  and  its  belongings 
was  under  the  especial  jurisdiction  of  the  mistress. 

The  master's  especial  charge  was  the  plantation  and  the 
appendages  thereof  which  were  generally  built  near  the  over- 
seer's or  manager's  house,  some  distance  from  the  mansion 
house.      These  were  the  various  farm-stables,  barns,  corn- 


THE  FOUNDER'S   CHILDREN  127 

houses,  tobacco-houses ;  shops  for  shoemakers,  blacksmiths, 
wheelwrights,  carpenters,  coopers,  masons,  and  other  arti- 
sans ;  the  servant-quarters,  the  tannery,  distillery,  etc. ;  the 
mills,  etc.,  the  laborers,  the  teams,  the  farming  implements, 
the  crops,  the  orchards,  the  fruits,  etc.  The  mansion  and 
its  outbuildings  had  the  appearance  of  a  village.  The  mis- 
tress and  the  master  of  a  large  plantation  in  old  Virginia  had 
their  hands  full.  Nearly  all  of  these  appendages  to  "  Union 
Hill "  have  now  crumbled  to  decay ;  but  very  many  of  them 
were  still  standing  within  my  own  recollection. 

Many  years  ago,  an  old  Virginia  matron  said  to  me  : 
"  When  I  first  recollect  '  Union  Hill,'  we  bought,  compara- 
tively speaking,  very  httle.  Every  kind  of  provision  was 
raised  in  the  greatest  abundance,  and  large  orchards  sup- 
plied quantities  of  fruit.  We  raised  an  ample  supply  of 
cotton,  wool,  flax,  hemp,  etc.,  to  clothe  the  negroes  comfort- 
ably in  winter  and  summer.  This  was  all  picked,  spun, 
woven,  and  dyed  beautifully  at  home.  Every  trade  and 
occupation  was  carried  on  there.  This  old  system  was 
laborious,  but  it  made  an  up-country  home  in  Virginia  a 
very  interesting  place.  But  this  system,  which  had  been  in 
vogue  in  the  colonial  era,  gradually  passed  away ;  the  for- 
mer white  servants  became  scarcer  and  scarcer,  and  it  was 
thought  to  be  cheaper  to  buy  the  manufactured  articles 
than  to  manufacture  with  negro  labor  at  home." 

I  have  seen  it  stated  that  the  landed  gentry  of  Virginia 
were  indolent.  The  facts  are  certainly  to  the  contrary  so 
far  as  this  section  of  Virginia  is  concerned. 

Mrs.  Margaret  Jordan  Cabell  survived  her  husband  four- 
teen years.  Dr.  George  Cabell,  Jr.,  who  married  her  niece, 
was  her  physician  in  her  last  illness.  She  died  in  March, 
1812,  at  "  Union  Hill,"  and  was  buried  there.  She  is 
always  referred  to  in  the  letters  of  her  children  and  rela- 
tives with  the  greatest  reverence  and  respect.  Her  father. 
Col.  Samuel  Jordan,  settled  at  "  the  Seven  Islands,"  on  the 
south  side  of  James  River,  in  the  present  county  of  Buck- 
ingham, where  he  owned  a  considerable  body  of  land.     He 


128  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

also  owned  5250  acres  on  Jordan's  Creek  in  Halifax  County, 
and  4699  acres  in  Albemarle.  He  was  a  justice  of  the 
peace  for  Albemarle,  1746-1761 ;  a  captain  in  1753  ;  sheriff, 
1753-1755  ;  presiding  justice  of  the  peace  and  county  lieu- 
tenant of  the  new  county  of  Buckingham  in  1761.  The 
records  of  this  county  having  been  destroyed,  I  have  but 
little  material  to  base  a  sketch  upon.  He  is  said  to  have 
been  a  burgess  from  Buckingham,  1761-1766.  He  was 
certainly  a  burgess  from  that  county  in  1767  and  1769. 

I  find  this  entry  in  Col.  Cabell's  diary:  "Aug.  28th. 
1775.  Returned  from  the  Convention.  .  .  .  Delivered  Mr. 
John  Nicholas  £61.  for  himself,  and  £43.  for  Col.  Samuel 
Jordan  which  Mr.  Turner  Southall  sent  them.  In  presence 
of  Patrick  Rose."  I  suppose  that  this  money  was  paid  for 
some  public  service. 

Although  an  old  man  at  the  beginning  of  the  Revolu- 
tion, Col.  Jordan  served  as  colonel  of  the  militia  of  his 
county,  and  as  a  member  of  the  county  committee.  After 
June,  1776,  he  was  "  State  Commissioner  of  the  States 
Foundry  for  casting  of  cannon  in  Buckingham."  ^ 

"July  21st  1789.  Col.  Samuel  Jordan,  wdio  had  been 
long  ill,  departed  this  life  at  a  very  advanced  age.  He 
bore  his  illness  with  great  fortitude  and  resigned  himself  to 
the  Divine  will  with  the  greatest  comj)OSure."  (WilHam 
Cabell's  Diary.) 

I  do  not  know  the  names  of  Col.  Samuel  Jordan's  par- 
ents, I  only  know  that  his  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Col. 
Charles  Fleming,  of  New  Kent,  who  died  about  1728,  and 
sister  of  Col.  John  Fleming  (county  lieutenant  of  Gooch- 
land), w^ho  married  Mary  Boiling.  The  early  records  of 
New  Kent  and  Hanover  are  missing.  The  Flemings  were 
originally  from  Scotland. 

According  to  one  tradition.  Col.  Samuel  Jordan  was 
descended  from  Samuel  Jordan,  of  Jordan's  f)oint,  who 
came  to  Virginia  at  an  early  date.^ 

1  See  Journals  of  Convention,  May  22,  June  14,  and  June  21,  1776. 
^  Genesis  of  the  United  States,  p.  933. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  CHILDREN  129 

According  to  another  tradition  "the  Jordans  were  of 
Huofuenot  descent." 

Solomon  Jourdan  was  certainly  one  of  the  French  refu- 
gees who  arrived  at  Jamestown  in  September,  1700,  and 
were  sent  up  to  Manikin-Town,  some  fifteen  miles  above  the 
falls,  where  "  Jourdan  and  his  wife  "  were  livinof  in  1701. 
I  know  nothing  of  the  descendants  of  this  couple ;  but  in 
June,  1744,  "  Samuel  Jordins "  had  three  tithables  and 
other  interests  in  "  King  William  Parish,"  which  was  the 
Huguenot  parish,  and  this  was  prior  to  his  second  marriage. 
However,  "  several  Enghsh  families  had  settled  among 
them"  before  this.  And,  from  a  merchant's  account  of 
1742,  it  seems  certain  that  there  had  been  business  transac- 
tions between  Samuel  Jordan  and  the  Huguenots,  and  pos- 
sible that  he  may  have  been  of  Huguenot  origin  himself ; 
but  I  have  found  no  direct  evidence.  In  connection  with 
this  tradition,  however,  the  following  from  the  account  of 
"  The  Huguenots,"  by  Samuel  Smiles,  is  interesting :  — 

"  One  of  the  most  eminent  scholars  of  Huguenot  origin 
was  the  Rev.  Dr.  Jortin,  Archdeacon  of  London.  He  was 
the  son  of  Kene  Jortin,  a  refugee  from  Brittany,  who  served 
as  secretary  to  three  British  admirals,  successively,  and 
went  down  with  Sir  Cloudesley  Shovel  in  the  ship  in  which 
he  was  wrecked  off  the  Scilly  Isles  in  1707."  Was  our 
ancestor,  so  persistently  connected  by  tradition  with  Sir 
Cloudesley,  Rene  Jortin  ?  It  was  certainly  not  Dr.  William 
Cabell.     But  see  also  under  IV.  and  52. 

Col.  Samuel  Jordan  married  (first),  prior  to  1740,  Ruth 
Meredith  (daughter,  by  his  first  wife,  of  Samuel  Meredith 
the  elder,  of  St.  Paul's  Parish,  Hanover,  who  died  April  14, 
1762).  She  died  prior  to  June,  1744,  leaving  at  least  three 
daughters.  The  eldest  married  John  Hunter;  Mary  mar- 
ried Geddes  Winston,  of  Hanover,  and  Margaret  married, 
when  very  young.  Col.  William  Cabell. 

II.  Col.  William^  and  Margaret  Jordan  Cabell  left  sur- 
viving issue  seven :  — 


10. 

i. 

11. 

ii. 

12. 

iii. 

13. 

iv. 

14. 

V. 

15. 

vi. 

16. 

vii. 

130  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

Samuel  Jordan  ^  Cabell. 
William^  CabeU. 
Paulina  ^  Cabell. 
Landon  ^  Cabell. 
Hector  2  Cabell. 
Margaret^  Cabell. 
Elizabeth  2  Cabell. 


III.   COL.   JOSEPH  2  CABELL  THE  ELDER,  OF   "  SION  HILL," 
BUCKINGHAM   COUNTY,  VA. 

III.  Joseph  ^  Cabell  was  born  September  19,  1732,  prob- 
ably at  his  father's  home  on  Licking-Hole  Creek,  near 
Dover,  in  the  present  county  of  Goochland.  In  1737,  he 
"  began  to  go  to  school ;  "  in  1739,  he  "  could  read  well," 
etc. ;  in  1740,  at  his  request,  his  mother  wrote  to  his  father 
to  bring  him  a  Bible  from  England ;  in  1741,  he  was  going 
to  school  to  Mr.  William  Ward.  Some  time  after  his 
father's  return  from  England  in  1741,  he  removed  with  his 
parents  to  their  Swan  Creek  estate,  in  the  present  county  of 
Nelson.  It  is  traditional  in  his  family  that  "  he  was  edu- 
cated and  instructed  by  his  father  for  the  medical  profes- 
sion, in  which  he  acquired  great  celebrity,  and  was  partic- 
ularly eminent  as  a  surgeon."  It  is  of  record  that  he 
performed  many  difficult  surgical  operations  with  skill  and 
success,  in  cases  of  emergency,  etc.  I  do  not  know  that  he 
ever  followed  medicine  or  surgery  as  a  profession.  All  of 
the  old  doctor's  sons  acquired  some  knowledge  of  medicine, 
and  made  use  of  it  when  occasion  required ;  but  Joseph,  I 
believe,  was  the  only  surgeon  among  them. 

On  September  20,  1751,  he  was  entered  in  the  sheriff's 
office  as  one  of  the  deputy  sheriffs  "  on  the  north  side  of  the 
Fluvanna  in  the  county  of  Albemarle  during  Capt.  Daniel's 
sheriffdom,"  which  expired  in  1753  ;  but  he  continued  to 
act  as  deputy  under  Capt.  Daniel's  successor,  Col.  Samuel 
Jordan,  until  1755,  and  possibly  later  under  Col.  John  Reid. 

He  was  married  in  1752,  soon  after  reaching  his  twenty- 


THE  FOUNDER'S    CHILDREN  131 

first  year,  that  is,  when  he  was  twenty  years  and  one  month 
old.  I  will  give  a  copy  of  his  marriage  bond,  etc.,  as  exam- 
ples of  the  old  modes  of  proceedings  in  the  premises :  — 

"  I,  Wm.  Cabell  do  hereby  signifie  to  Henry  Wood,  clerk 
of  Goochland  County  that  I  do  consent  to  the  marriage  of 
my  son  Joseph  with  Mary  Hopkins.  Given  under  my  Hand 
and  Seal  this  xvii  Day  of  October  MDCCLII. 

Wm.  Cabell   [Seal] 
"  Witnesses  — 

W.  CabeU  Junr. 
John  Hopkins." 

[These  letters  from  parents  were  required  when  their 
sons  were  under  twenty-one  years  of  age.] 

"  Know  all  men  by  these  presents  that  We,  Joseph  Cabell 
and  John  Hopkins,  are  held  and  firmly  bound  unto  our 
Sovereign  Lord  King  George  the  Second  and  to  his  suc- 
cessors in  the  sum  of  fifty  Pounds  Current  money  of  Vir- 
ginia, to  the  which  payment  well  and  truly  to  be  made  We 
bind  US  and  Either  of  us  our  and  Either  of  our  Heirs, 
Executors  and  Administrators  Joyntly  and  Severally  and 
Firmly  by  these  presents. 

"  Sealed  the  xviii  day  of  October  MDCCLII. 

"  The  condition  of  this  obligation  is  such  that  if  there  is 
no  Lawfull  Cause  to  obstruct  a  Marriage  intended  to  be  had 
and  solemnized  between  the  above  bound  Joseph  Cabell  and 
Mary  Hopkins  then  this  obligation  to  be  void  Else  in  Force. 

Jos  Cabell    [Seal] 
Jno.  Hopkins   [Seal] 
"  Signed,  Sealed  and 

Delivered  in  the 

Presence  of 
Val.  Wood." 

On  the  receipt  of  the  letter  from  the  parent  and  the  bond 
from  the  principal,  the  clerk  of  the  court  issued  the  mar- 
riage Hcense,  and  the  ceremony  was  performed  by  the  min- 
ister of  the  parish.^ 

1  See  Hening's  Statutes  at  Large,  vol.  vi.  pp.  81-85. 


132  THE   CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

Mary  Hopkins  was  the  daughter  of  Dr.  Arthur  Hopkins, 
of  Goochland.  I  do  not  know  where  the  young  couple 
resided  when  they  first  began  "  to  keep  house,"  but  I  think 
that  it  was  within  the  bounds  of  the  present  county  of 
Fluvanna. 

I  think  that  Joseph  Cabell  was  a  justice  of  Albemarle  as 
early  as  1755 ;  I  know  that  he  was  in  1760.  His  lands 
were  more  scattered  than  those  of  his  brothers.  After  the 
division  of  Albemarle  in  1761  into  Albemarle,  Amherst, 
and  Buckingham,  he  owned  land  in  each  of  the  three  coun- 
ties, and  at  different  times  lived  in  each  county ;  first  in 
Albemarle,  then  in  Buckingham,  then  in  Amherst,  and, 
lastly,  again  in  Buckingham.  He  was  one  of  the  securities 
for  John  Reid,  the  first  sheriff  of  Amherst;  on  June  1, 
1761,  he  owned  land  in  the  county,  but  was  not  then  a 
citizen  thereof.  His  father  had  not  then  deeded  any  land 
to  him,  but  "  on  Feb'y  16th,  1761,  he  had  given  bond  in 
£20,000  to  his  sons  Will  and  Joe  to  convey  to  them  by 
Deed,  or  to  bequeath  to  them  by  will  their  share  of  land," 
and  Joe's  father-in-law.  Dr.  Arthur  Hopkins,  was  a  witness 
to  this  bond. 

On  August  21,  1762,  he  was  a  major  of  militia  in  Albe- 
marle County. 

"  Feb'y  ye  9th,  1764.  By  teaching  John  Cabell,  John 
Clay,  Nicholas  Cabell  and  Joseph  Cabell  the  Art  of  Defense 
one  Quarter  of  a  year  <£10.  — .  Then  received  of  Joseph 
Cabell  ye  above  account  of  ten  pounds.  In  Full  of  all  De- 
mands. James  Hughes, 

Fencing  Master." 

At  the  October  session,  1764,  of  the  House  of  Burgesses, 
he  was  appointed  by  act  one  of  the  trustees  for  benefit  of 
Allen  Jones.  (Hening,  viii.  p.  62.)  I  think  that  he  was 
at  this  time  a  citizen  of,  and  a  burgess  for,  Buckingham 
County.  The  few  family  papers  that  I  have  seen  of  his 
are  correct,  but  very  indefinite.  For  instance,  they  state 
that  "  he  served  iqowards  of  twenty  years  in  the  House  of 
Burgesses  and  in  the  General  Assembly,"  without  giving 


THE  FOUNDEK'S  CHILDREN  133 

any  idea  as  to  how  many  more  years  than  twenty ;  how 
many  in  the  House  of  Burgesses ;  how  many  in  the  General 
Assembly ;  what  counties  represented,  or  whether  he  served 
in  the  Assembly  as  a  delegate,  or  as  state  senator. 

February,  21,  1765.    He  had  four  children  then  living. 

At  the  November  session,  1766,  the  House  of  Burgesses 
established  by  act  a  public  ferry,  from  his  land  in  Bucking- 
ham to  his  father's  land  in  Amherst.  (This  was  his  Sion 
Hill  estate,  on  which,  I  think,  he  was  then  living.)  And 
during  the  same  session  he  was  appointed  one  of  the  trus- 
tees to  sell  certain  lands  in  Albemarle,  Amherst,  and  Au- 
gusta, in  winding  up  the  estates  of  John  Chiswell,  deceased, 
and  the  late  speaker,  John  Robinson,  a  trust  which  he  held 
until  1792. 

In  1768,  he  was  a  burgess  from  Buckingham  (and,  as  I 
have  said,  I  think  that  he  had  been  since  1764,  if  not 
before),  and  continued  to  represent  that  county  until  1771. 
He  was  a  signer  of  the  non-importation  articles  of  1769, 
and  of  June  22,  1770.  See  the  sketch  of  his  brother  Wil- 
liam, and,  from  time  to  time,  of  his  other  brothers,  for 
many  items  of  mutual  interest  which  it  was  not  necessary 
for  me  to  repeat  in  the  sketches  of  each  of  them. 

There  are  many  references  to  Col.  Joe  in  his  brother 
William's  diary.  "  March  6th,  1769.  Received  of  Richard 
Woods  2  schemes  of  his  Lottery  and  12  tickets  one  half  of 
which  for  Jos.  Cabell." 

"  March  10th.  Delivered  Jos  Cabell  a  scheme  of  Richd 
Woods'  lottery,  together  with  twelve  tickets,  at  Doctr  Ca- 
bell's." 

"  May  16th.  James  Buchanan  bought  23  hhds  of  tobacco 
(28,058  lbs  nett.)  from  me  at  Byrd's  warehouse,  and  is  to 
allow  me  the  same  price  pr.  100  lbs.  that  will  be  allowed  by 
N.  Campbell  to  Col.  Joseph  Cabell." 

Col.  Joe  had  an  interest  in  the  Albemarle  iron  works 
prior  to  1771.  He  moved  to  Amherst  in  1771,  to  his  es- 
tate called  "  Winton,"  near  the  present  New  Glasgow 
station. 


134  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  IQN 

In  December,  1771,  he  was  elected  a  representative  of  Am- 
herst in  the  House  of  Burgesses,  which  met  in  February, 
1772,  and  was  continued  in  that  office  until  the  final  disso- 
lution of  that  House  in  1775. 

"  Dec.  7th  1772.  Joseph  Cabell,  gentleman,  who  had 
been  appointed  a  vestryman  of  Amherst  Parish  in  the  room 
of  John  Rose,  gent,  appeared  in  Amherst  Court  and  took 
the  usual  oaths." 

"  July  25th,  1774.  My  brother  Joseph  and  myself  were 
elected  Burgesses  without  opposition." 

They  had  been  sent  home  by  the  governor  on  May  26, 
and  were  now  returned  by  the  people  "  without  opposition." 
The  first  body  which  they  (Cols.  WilHam  and  Joseph  Ca- 
bell) attended,  however,  was  not  the  House  of  Burgesses, 
but  the  first  of  the  Revolutionary  conventions,  which  sat 
from  August  1  to  August  6  inclusive. 

Col.  Joseph  Cabell  and  his  brother  William  attended  the 
Convention  of  March  20-27,  and  the  last  meeting  of  the 
House  of  Burgesses  in  Virginia,  June  1-16,  1775. 

"  June  29th.  To  Cash  paid  The  Treasurer  for  the  use  of 
the  Delegates  <£15.  — .  one  half  of  which  was  paid  by 
Joseph  Cabell." 

"  By  Jos.  Cabell  £26  6s.  for  my  Burgess  wages  for  May, 
session  1774  and  June  session  1775."     (Diary.) 

They  also  attended  the  Convention  of  July  17-August 
26,  1775.  On  August  8,  Col.  WiUiam  Cabell  "  purchased 
for  Joseph  Cabell  of  Carter  Braxton,  a  mill  and  50  acres 
adjoining,  on  Buffalo  River,  in  Amherst  County,  for 
£155.—." 

"  Octr  21st.  DeHvered  Col.  Joseph  Cabell  a  pocket  book, 
which  was  sent  by  some  of  John  Grill's  family  [of  Au- 
gusta?] to  Wm  Megginson." 

[Col.  William  Cabell  had  just  returned  from  settling 
militia  accounts  on  the  frontiers.] 

"  Novr  28th.  Paid  Joseph  Cabell  £30  2s.,  which  I  re- 
ceived of  the  Treasurer  for  him,  in  presence  of  Wm. 
Spencer." 


THE  FOUNDER'S  CHILDREN  135 

Col.  Joseph  Cabell  and  his  brother  were  again  the  mem- 
bers from  Amherst  of  the  Convention  of  December  1, 
1775-January  20,  1776. 

On  December  8,  the  Convention  "  Resolved,  That  Joseph 
Cabell,  Thomas  Randolph,  and  Jerman  Baker,  gentlemen, 
be  appointed  commissioners  to  receive  for  and  pay  to  the 
several  claimants,  in  the  southern  district,  for  services  in  the 
late  expedition  against  the  Indians,  whatever  may  be  due 
them  from  the  publick,  and  not  called  for  at  the  Treas- 
ury." On  December  21,  this  resolution  was  rescinded  ;  but 
on  the  same  day,  William  Cabell,  Joseph  Cabell,  and  others 
were  appointed  on  a  committee  for  considering  the  petitions 
of  Sampson  and  George  Matthews,  and  of  WiUiam  Ingles, 
regarding  suppHes,  etc.,  furnished  the  expedition. 

On  December  26,  the  Convention  "Resolved,  That  John 
Bowyer,  gentleman  [of  Botetourt],  be  appointed  a  commis- 
sioner to  receive  for,  and  pay  to,  the  several  claimants  in 
the  counties  of  Pittsylvania,  Augusta,  Botetourt,  Fincastle, 
and  Bedford,  whatever  may  be  due  to  them  from  the  pub- 
Hck,  and  not  called  for  at  the  Treasury ;  and  that  he  enter 
into  bond,  with  sufficient  security,  for  the  due  performance 
thereof,  and  return  an  account  to  the  Treasury  within  six 
months  from  the  time  he  shall  have  received  the  money 
from  the  Treasury." 

On  January  8,  1776,  the  Convention  rescinded  this  reso- 
lution, and  Resolved,  "  That  Joseph  Cabell,  gentleman,  be 
appointed  the  commissioner  in  his  [Bowyer's]  stead,  for  the 
purposes  aforesaid,  giving  bond  as  aforesaid,  .  .  .  and  that 
he  be  allowed  the  sum  of  £150  for  his  trouble  and  expenses 
in  discharging  the  said  Trust." 

On  January  13,  the  Convention  required  Capt.  Samuel 
McDowell  to  render  an  account  to  Joseph  Cabell,  Esq.,  of 
the  payment  of  the  wages,  etc.,  of  his  (McDowell's)  com- 
pany. 

As  soon  as  the  Convention  adjourned,  Col.  Joe  left  Wil- 
liamsburg to  make  arrangements  for  fulfilling  his  trust. 
On  January  23,  Col.  William  Cabell  received  for  him  from 


136  THE   CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

the  treasurer  £17  14s.  on  account  of  his  wages  as  a  dele- 
gate.    He  was  ready  for  his  journey  in  March. 

"March  7th,  1776.  Paid  Gabriel  Penn  £56  14  7^,  for 
Joseph  Cabell  to  pay  James  Thompson  of  Fincastle  <£16 
14  7id.  and  Edward  Johnson  £40.  — ."     (Diary.) 

The  amount  paid  out  by  Col.  Joe  was  .£33,600.  The 
money  was  carried  under  guard  to  Fincastle  Court  House, 
and  there  paid  out.  Of  the  £150  allowed  him  for  his  ser- 
vices by  the  Convention,  he  paid  the  guards  and  his  clerk 
£93  8s.  6d. ;  so  he  received  only  £56  lis.  6d.  himself. 

The  following  is  the  account  of  this  transaction  by  his 
grandson.  Gen.  B.  W.  S.  Cabell:  "Col.  Joseph  Cabell  was 
paymaster  to  the  troops  commanded  by  Gen.  Andrew  Lewis 
(and  his  brother.  Col.  Charles  Lewis,  who  was  mortally 
wounded  and  died  on  the  field),  who  fought  the  celebrated 
battle  of  Point  Pleasant.  By  whom  appointed,  I  know  not, 
and  whether  his  was  a  regular  military  commission  or  a 
special  civil  appointment,  I  cannot  now  tell.  But  this  I 
know,  that  he  jiaid  them,  and  paid  them  in  specie.  For  I 
saw  and  read  many  of  the  receipts  the  soldiers  had  given 
him,  and  which  when  I  was  a  youth  were  in  the  possession 
of  my  father,  who  was  one  of  the  executors  of  his  estate. 
The  money  was  paid  at  Fincastle  Court  House,  when  that 
county  embraced  the  whole  of  what  is  now  the  State  of 
Kentucky  and  all  the  southwestern  part  of  Virginia.  It 
was  transported  there  in  wagons,  the  first  that  ever  turned 
a  wheel  in  that  part  of  the  country,  and  was  attended  by  a 
strong  military  guard." 

He  made  his  report  to  the  Convention  late  in  May  or 
early  in  June,  1776,  and  presented  claims  stating  reasons 
why  the  £93  8s.  6d.  paid  by  him  to  the  guards  should  be 
repaid  him  by  the  public.  The  committee  of  public  claims, 
to  whom  the  matter  was  referred,  reported  on  June  3 
against  the  reimbursement ;  but  in  favor  of  allowing  him 
£21  15s.  6d.  for  his  trouble  in  collecting  from  sundry  per- 
sons indebted  to  this  country  and  paying  into  the  treasury 
the  sum  of  £217  15s. 


THE   FOUNDER'S   CHILDREN  137 

On  June  10,  the  Convention  considered  this  report,  cut 
the  pay  for  collecting,  etc.,  one  half,  and  allowed  him  only 
<£10  17s.  9d.  therefor.  Which  amount  was  paid  to  him  by 
his  brother  William  on  July  20,  following,  "  for  his  receiv- 
ing public  money  in  Fincastle." 

August  5,  1776,  Joseph  Cabell,  vestryman  of  Amherst 
Parish,  took  the  oath  prescribed  by  an  ordinance  of  Con- 
vention for  vestrymen. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Delegates  from  Am- 
herst from  1776  to  1779. 

He  was  a  justice  for  Amherst  in  1777  (if  not  before), 
and  was  one  of  those  appointed  to  make  a  tour  of  the 
county  and  administer  the  oath  of  allegiance  to  the  Com- 
monwealth of  Virginia  prescribed  by  act  of  (May-June, 
1777)  Assembly  to  every  freeborn  male  person  above  the 
age  of  sixteen  j^ears,  in  the  county  of  Amherst. 

At  the  fall  session  of  the  General  Assembly,  "  an  Act 
was  passed  for  speedily  recruiting  the  Virginia  Regiments 
on  the  continental  establishment,"  etc.,  under  which  thirty- 
two  men  were  to  be  raised  in  Amherst,  who  Avere  allowed 
£15  bounty.  Time  of  draft,  2d  Monday  in  February, 
1779.  Mode  :  The  county  lieutenant,  the  field  officers,  the 
captains  and  first  lieutenants  of  militia  were  to  assemble 
the  unmarried  men  and  let  them  draw  lots. 

On  January  23,  1778,  the  treasurer  delivered  Col.  Wil- 
liam Cabell  £144  for  the  thirty-two  drafts  to  be  raised  in 
Amherst  County ;  on  January  28,  he  returned  home  from 
the  General  Assembly ;  and  on  February  18,  delivered  the 
money  to  Col.  Joseph  Cabell  (who  was  then  the  county 
lieutenant  or  chief  commander  of  Amherst  County),  to  be 
by  him  paid  to  the  said  drafts.  He  now  had  charge  of 
military  affairs  in  the  county. 

May  4,  the  county  court  appointed  "  Joseph  Cabell,  Hugh 
Rose,  and  Gabriel  Penn,  gentlemen,  to  inquire  into  the 
cases  of  the  wives  and  children  of  such  men  from  this 
county  as  had  enlisted  in  the  Continental  service,  or  in  the 
service  of  this  State,  and  to  furnish  them  with  such  neces- 


138  THE   CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

saries  as  they  shall  think  reasonable,  and  to  render  an 
account  thereof  to  this  court,  agreeable  to  an  Act  of  As- 
sembly in  that  case  made,"  etc. 

The  General  Assembly  of  May- June,  1778,  passed  "  an 
Act  for  raising  Volunteers  to  join  the  Grand  Army," 
under  which  the  proportion  of  Amherst  County  was  one 
captain,  one  lieutenant,  and  forty-five  non-commissioned 
officers  and  privates.  They  were  to  receive  a  bounty  of 
thirty  dollars  and  a  complete  suit  of  regimentals,  to  consist 
of  a  coat,  jacket,  a  pair  of  breeches,  two  pairs  of  shoes, 
two  pairs  of  stockings,  two  shirts,  and  a  hat.  This  act  was 
executed  in  Amherst,  under  the  supervision  of  Col.  Joseph 
Cabell,  the  county  lieutenant. 

He  was  in  Williamsburg  in  November,  during  the  faU 
term  of  the  General  Assembly,  and  was  possibly  a  member 
thereof.  This  Assembly  passed  "  An  Act  for  speedily 
recruiting  the  Virginia  regiments  on  continental  establish- 
ment," under  which  each  county  was  to  furnish  one  twenty- 
fifth  of  their  militia.  The  counties  were  to  be  laid  off  into 
the  necessary  number  of  districts  by  the  county  lieutenant, 
the  four  senior  justices,  and  the  field  officers,  and  each  dis- 
trict was  to  furnish  a  man. 

"Feby  20th,  1779.  Went  to  the  Court  House  and  in 
part  laid  off  the  militia  in  Divisions  to  raise  men  for  re- 
cruitino;  our  regiments  on  the  Continental  Establishment." 

"  Feby  22nd.  Enlisted  John  Johnson  Jr.  for  the  sec- 
ond Division  of  Amherst  County  and  paid  him  400  dol- 
lars in  presence  of  Mr.  Lamont,  John  Williams  and  Majr 
Saml.  J.  Cabell,  whereupon  he  took  the  oath  and  gave  a 
receipt." 

"  Feby  24th.  Delivered  John  Johnson  Jr.  to  Joseph  Ca- 
bell, County  Lieutenant,  and  took  his  receipt  in  presence  of 
Ambrose  Rucker,  George  Penn  and  many  other  gents." 
(From  Col.  William  Cabell's  Diary.) 

The  General  Assembly  of  May,  1779,  passed  several  acts 
for  raising  men  for  the  continental  service  and  for  the 
state  service,  under  which  Amherst  had  to  furnish  her  due, 


THE  FOUNDER'S  CHILDREN  139 

which  was  done  under  the  supervision  of  Col.  Joseph  Ca- 
bell, the  county  lieutenant. 

The  British  were  in  South  Carolina.  In  May,  a  force 
had  landed  at  Norfolk.  For  the  rest  of  the  war  Virg-inia 
was  constantly  threatened,  and  her  militia  was  more  and 
more  in  demand. 

July  30,  1779,  Col.  William  Cabell  went  to  Amherst 
Court  House,  and  assisted  Col.  Joe  and  others  in  laying 
off  the  divisions  of  the  militia,  agreeable  to  the  act  of 
Assembly  for  raising  men  for  the  defense  of  the  common- 
wealth. 

Col.  Joseph  Cabell  sold  Winton,  his  Amherst  estate, 
to  Col.  Samuel  Meredith,  in  April,  1779,  and  removed  to 
his  farm  near  Buckingham  Court  House,  called  "  Variety 
Shades,"  late  in  1779,  or  early  in  1780.  Col.  Hugh  Rose 
succeeded  him  as  county  lieutenant  of  Amherst.  He  rep- 
resented Buckingham  in  the  House  of  Delegates,  1780— 
1781. 

"  He  commanded  a  Reg-iment  of  militia  at  the  sieofe  of 
Yorktown,  and  was  present  at  the  surrender  of  Cornwallis. 
The  students  of  William  and  Mary  College  [of  whom  his 
son  Joe  was  one]  were  formed  into  a  company,  and  it  was 
attached  to  his  Regiment." 

"  After  our  Independence  was  achieved  and  peace  estab- 
lished, we  again  find  Col.  Cabell  serving  in  his  legislative 
capacity  in  the  General  Assembly  of  Virginia."  [He  was 
the  senator  from  his  district  in  the  state  Senate,  probably 
continuously,  from  1781  to  1785,  and  he  represented  the 
county  of  Buckingham  in  the  House  of  Delegates  in  1788- 
1790.] 

"He  was  a  man  of  unbounded  popularity  and  great 
influence  with  the  people  among  whom  he  lived.  He  was 
a  devoted  Patriot  and  made  large  contributions  in  pro- 
visions, hemp,  tobacco,  and  horses,  and  advanced  consider- 
able sums  to  the  public  cause  during  the  trying  periods  of 
the  Revolutionary  struggle,  for  which  he  never  received 
any  compensation.     He  acquired  great  celebrity  as  a  sur- 


140  THE   CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

geon.  As  a  justice  of  the  peace  he  was  the  terror  of  evil- 
doers. He  was  a  lion  when  aroused,  but  naturally  he  was 
as  gentle  as  a  lamb,  and  as  generous  as  a  Prince." 

How  long  he  continued  to  reside  at  "  Variety  Shades," 
I  do  not  know ;  but  it  is  probable  that  he  soon  removed  to 
"Sion  Hill"  (now  called  "Yellow  Gravel"),  as  that  had 
long  been  his  principal  estate.  He  died  there  on  March  1, 
1798,  and  himself  and  wife  lie  buried  in  the  Sion  Hill 
family  cemetery,  under  a  tombstone  bearing  this  inscrip- 
tion :  — 

"  Sacred  to  the  memory  of  Joseph  Cabell. 

Born  Sept.  8th,  1732,  died  March  1st,  1798,  aged  65 
years,  7  months. 

Mary  his  wife,  born  Jan'y,  1735,  died  July  12th,  1811, 
aged  76  years. 

Erected  by  Eliza  Lewis,  their  daughter." 

He  was  born  September  19,  1732,  and  was  therefore  65 
years,  5  mos.,  and  11  days  old. 

Dr.  Arthur  Hopkins,  the  father  of  Mrs.  Joseph  Cabell, 
was  probably  born  in  New  Kent  County,  about  1690.  He 
married,  about  1710-1715,  Elizabeth  Pettus,  of  New  Kent ; 
bought  land  on  ''  ye  Byrd  Creek  "  in  Goochland  County,  in 
1731  (in  the  deed  he  is  styled  "  Arthur  Hopkins  of  St. 
Paul's  Parish  Hanover  county  j)hysician  "),  and  moved  to 
that  county  prior  to  1734.  He  was  appointed  a  justice  of 
the  peace  for  Goochland  in  1737 ;  was  high  sheriff,  1739- 
1741 ;  and  was  a  member  of  the  vestry  of  St.  James 
Northam  Parish.  There  are  several  references  to  him  in 
old  Dr.  Cabell's  papers,  going  to  show  that  they  were  very 
good  friends.  He  entered  for,  patented,  bought,  and  sold 
much  land  in  the  present  counties  of  Albemarle,  Fluvanna, 
and  Goochland,  during  1731-1750.  In  1751,  he  bought 
lots  in  the  new  town  of  Beverley  at  Westham.  He  was  a 
colonel  in  1752,  and  a  citizen  of  Albemarle  in  1762.  His 
will,  dated  May  31,  1765,  recorded  March  12,  1767,  men- 
tions wife  Elizabeth,  sons  Samuel,  John,  Arthur,  William, 
and  James,  "  my   married    daughters  and   their    husbands 


THE   FOUNDER'S  CHILDREN  141 

[names  not  given],  .  .  .  my  single  daughter  Isabella,  my 
son-in-law  Col.  Joseph  Cabell  to  be  her  guardian,"  etc. 

His  son  Samuel  was  the  father  of  Gen.  Samuel  Hopkins, 
of  Kentucky.  His  son  James,  who  died  in  this  county  in 
1803,  left  the  most  remarkable  will  I  ever  read,  naming 
many  of  his  relatives,  emancipating  his  slaves,  many  of 
whom  could  then  read,  and  requiring  his  executors  to  have 
the  others  "  taught  enough  to  enable  them  to  read  the 
word  of  God." 

Elizabeth  Pettus,  the  wife  of  Dr.  Arthur  Hopkins,  de- 
scended from  "  Col.  Thomas  Pettus,  who  settled  in  Virginia 
in  1640,  who  was  descended  from  Sir  John  Pettus,"  one  of 
the  founders  of  Virginia.^ 

in.  Col.  Joseph"  and  Mary  Hopkins  Cabell  had  sur- 


viving  issue  :  — 

17. 

i. 

Ehzabeth  ^ 

the  first. 

18. 

ii. 

Joseph  ^. 

19. 

iii. 

Mary  H.^ 

20. 

iv. 

Ann^. 

21. 

V. 

Elizabeth  ^ 

the  second. 

IV.   COL.  JOHN  2  CABELL,   OF  GREEN  HILL,  BUCKINGHAM 
COUNTY,   VA. 

In  the  absence  of  direct  evidence  (Dr.  Cabell's  Bible  and 
family  records  having  been  lost),  it  is  not  known  whether 
his  third  son,  John,  was  born  before  he  went  to  England  or 
after  his  return.  On  May  6,  1743,  the  council  granted 
Wilham  Cabell,  Sr.,  Joseph  Cabell,  John  Cabell,  and  Wil- 
liam Hopkins  leave  to  locate  6000  acres  of  land.  But  the 
land  entry  is  no  proof  of  the  age  of  the  parties  thereto. 
In  May,  1753,  Nicholas  Cabell  entered  in  his  own  name 
"  400  acres  under  Findlay's  Mountain,"  yet  he  was  not 
three  years  old  at  the  time.  And  in  May,  1743,  John  was 
certainly  not  ten,  and  probably  not  one  year  old. 

"  On  Tuesday,  Dec.  5th,  1756,  John's  horse  fell  with 
him,  and  on  him,  breaking  his  right  thigh  bone."  His 
^  See  Genesis  of  the  United  States,  p.  966. 


142  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

father  set  the  limb  and  bandaged  it ;  but  John  was  restless 
and  slipped  the  bands  "  in  so  much  that  on  December  20, 
Dr.  Cabell  was  obliged  to  rebreak  and  reduce  the  fracture, 
the  bone  having  overlapt  at  least  three  inches."  After 
which  the  old  doctor  kept  a  strict  watch  on  his  son  John, 
and  there  was  no  more  trouble  with  the  limb. 

He  was  married  "  May  20th  1762,  at  8  o'clock  in  the 
evening,  to  Paulina  daughter  of  Col.  Samuel  Jordan." 

September  13th,  1763,  he  was  Captain  John  Cabell. 

At  the  fall  session  of  the  House  of  Burgesses,  1764,  a 
public  ferry  was  established  from  the  land  of  John  Cabell, 
near  Bowman's  warehouse  in  Amherst,  across  the  Fluvanna 
River  to  his  land  in  Buckingham.  This  ferry  was  between 
the  present  Green  Hill  and  Fork  Field  estates,  which  had 
then  but  recently  been  deeded  to  him  by  his  father.  Dr. 
Cabell's  papers  show  that  at  the  time  of  giving  him  the 
land  he  also  paid  off  his  debts,  "  giving  him  and  his  young 
wife  a  clear  start  in  the  world." 

The  fact  that  the  records  of  Buckingham  County  and 
the  family  papers  of  Col.  John  Cabell  have  all  been  burnt 
or  destroyed  makes  it  impossible  for  me  to  give  the  particu- 
lars of  his  life.  He  is  frequently  mentioned  in  his  brother 
William's  diary,  but  nearly  always  in  connection  with  some 
private  business  transaction  of  no  public  interest. 

'^  April  14th  1769.  Swap'd  my  blazed  faced  mare  with 
John  Cabell  for  his  grey  horse." 

"  Novr.  30th  1769.  Paid  Mr.  Pattison  of  Williamsburg 
fifteen  shillings  for  repairing  John  Cabell's  watch." 

In  1774,  and  probably  before.  Col.  John  Cabell  was 
sheriff  of  Buckingham  County. 

In  1775,  he  was  chairman  of  the  Buckingham  County 
committee,  one  of  the  deputies  from  that  committee  to  the 
district  committee,  which  first  met  (September  8,  1775)  at 
the  house  of  James  Woods  in  Amherst,  and  county  lieuten- 
ant.    (See  the  sketches  of  his  brothers.) 

"  Novr.  23rd  1775.  DeHvered  Col.  John  CabeU  the  com- 
missions for  the  militia  of&cers  for  Buckingham  County." 


THE   FOUNDER'S   CHILDREN  143 

"Jaii'y29th  1776.  Paid  Col.  John  Cabell,  chairman  of 
the  Committee  of  Buckingham  ^£72.  the  recruiting  money 
for  that  county." 

Col.  John  Cabell  was  one  of  the  delegates  from  Bucking- 
ham County  to  the  Convention  which  met  in  Williamsburg 
on  May  6,  1776.  On  May  8,  he  was  appointed  one  of  the 
committee  of  propositions  and  grievances.  The  instruc- 
tions given  by  the  freeholders  of  Buckingham  to  their  dele- 
gates to  the  Convention,  Charles  Patteson  and  John  Cabell, 
were  published  in  "  The  Virginia  Gazette "  of  June  14, 
1776,  and  are  referred  to  by  Bancroft  (Hist,  of  U.  S., 
Centy.  Ed.  vol.  v.  p.  256),  and  by  Grigsby  (Col.  Va.  Hist. 
Soc,  new  series,  vol.  ix.  p.  338,  note  257).  See  the  sketch 
of  Col.  George  Carrington  in  this  volume. 

Col.  John  Cabell  continued  as  county  lieutenant  of  Buck- 
ingham for  several  years.  He  also  represented  the  county 
in  the  General  Assembly  of  Virginia  in  1777-1778,  1780- 
1781,  1783-1784,  1784-1785,  and  1787-1788,  and  proba- 
bly at  other  times ;  but,  as  I  have  said,  the  records  have 
been  destroyed.  The  following  extracts  from  his  brother's 
diary  may  be  of  some  interest  to  some  of  his  descendants  :  — 

"  June  27th  1777.  By  Carter  Braxton  Esq.  £282  lis., 
for  John  Cabell  for  17,388  lbs  tobacco  at  £1  12  6d 
pr  C." 

"  Paid  Richard  Charlton  for  John  Cabell's  expenses  £21 
8  6."  "Paid  John  Talbot  for  John  Cabell's  bond  and 
interest,  £51  5s."  "  Paid  Edward  Carlton  for  John  Cabell 
£29  8  6.  on  account  of  Col.  Thomas  Jefferson."  Col. 
William  Cabell  was  at  this  time  attending  the  General 
Assembly,  and  I  think  that  Col.  John  was  also. 

"  Deer.  30th  1777.  Paid  John  Ramsey  £4  12s.  for  John 
Cabell  for  the  sword  of  Capt.  Bates." 

"  Octr.  22nd  1778.  Paid  The  Treasurer  70  dollars  and 
took  up  John  Cabell's  bond  to  Edmond  Randolph  and  John 
Blair,  trustees  of  Dunmore's." 

"  Deer.  2nd  1779.  By  John  Talbot  £69  14s.  for  Joseph 
and  John  Cabell." 


144  THE   CABELLS   AND   THEIR   KIN 

"Feb'y  12th  1780.  Paid  John  Cabell  in  account  £34 
16  9d.  received  of  John  Talbot  for  his  part  of  a  Privateer." 

I  suppose  this  has  reference  to  the  shares  of  Joseph  and 
John  Cabell  in  the  proceeds  of  some  prize  taken  by  a  priva- 
teer in  which  they  were  part  owners. 

"  Feb'y  2nd  1781.  By  Col.  John  Cabell  pr  the  hands  of 
my  son  William  £3225  in  full  of  1282  lbs  nett  pork  at 
£250  pr.  C." 

"  July  31st   1781.    Pauhna  Cabell  wife  of  John  Cabell 

departed  this  life  in  the year  of  her  age.     She  was  a 

most  affectionate,  tender  parent  and  humane  mistress.  In 
short  she  possessed  every  virtue  that  adorns  Human  Na- 
ture." 

"  Augt.  8th.  Went  to  see  Mrs.  Paulina  Cabell,  the  wife 
of  Col.  John  Cabell  inter' d,  and  thereby  to  pay  the  last 
offices  to  the  remains  of  our  poor  departed  sister." 

Col.  John  Cabell  married  (second)  July  19,  1787,  Eliza- 
beth Brierton  Jones.  She  died  October  16,  1802,  without 
issue  by  him.  His  will,  dated  April  22,  was  proven  June 
12,  1815.  The  late  N.  F.  Cabell  said  that  "he  died  at  a 
farm  of  his  [about  a  mile  below  Green  Hill],  now  known  as 
Elm  Cottage,  the  residence  of  Miss  M.  G.  McClelland,  the 
authoress." 

Paulina  Jordan  (Col.  John's  first  wife)  was  a  daughter  of 
Col.  Samuel  Jordan  (see  sketch  of  him  under  II.)  by  his 
second  wife,  Judith  Scott  Ware,  widow  of  Peter  Ware, 
whose  will,  recorded  in  March,  1742,  at  Goochland  C.  H., 
mentions  his  loving  wife,  Judith,  and  their  six  children. 
Her  marriage  bond  with  Samuel  Jordan  is  dated  February 
29,  1745  (present  style),  and  Thomas  Ballard  Smith  is  the 
security.  She  also  bore  to  Col.  Samuel  Jordan  at  least 
three  daughters :  Paulina,  who  married  Col.  John  Cabell ; 
Wilhelmina,  who  married  Col.  John  Wyatt;  and  Caroline 
Matilda,  who  married  Col.  Hugh  Rose. 

Mrs.  Judith  Scott  (Ware)  Jordan  was  an  aunt  of  Gen. 
Charles  Scott,  a  soldier  in  the  French  and  Indian  war,  and 
in  the  Revolution,  and  afterwards  governor  of  Kentucky. 


THE   FOUNDER'S  CHILDREN  145 

The  Scott  family  was  a  prominent  one  among  the  earUest 
settlers  of  old  Goochland.  They  intermarried  with  Hugue- 
nots. 

IV.  Col.  John "  and  Paulina  Jordan  Cabell  had  issue  :  — 
i.  John,  b.  September  19, 1763 ;  d.  in  April,  1771. 

ii.  George,  b.  December  1, 1765 ;  d.  December  1, 1765. 

22.  iii.  George  ^ 

23.  iv.  Frederick  ^ 

V.  William,  b.  May  31,  1771;  d.  October  4,  1771. 

24.  vi.  John  J.^ 

vii.  Elizabeth,  b.  October  31,  1774 ;  m.  Dr.  Tiernan,  of 
Richmond,  Va. ;  and  d.  August  18,  1798,  s.  p. 

25.  vii.  Samuel  J.^. 

ix.  Judith  Scott,  b.  January  6,  1779 ;  m.,  1800,  Mr. 
Shields  of  Rockbridge  County,  Va. ;  and  d.  Jan- 
uary 1,  1801,  s.  p. 

26.  X.  Paulina  Jordan  ^  b.  November  20,  1780;  m.  (1st) 

Hector^  Cabell  (14);  m.  (2d)  Judge  William 
Daniel  the  elder,  of  Lynchburg,  Va. ;  and  d.  in 
1840,  s.  p. 

V.  COL.   NICHOLAS 2  CABELL  THE  ELDER,   OF    "LIBERTY 

HALL,"   NELSON  COUNTY,   VA. 

Nicholas^  Cabell,  born  October  29,  1750,  baptized  by 
Rev.  Robert  Rose  (who  was  one  of  his  godfathers)  on 
December  15  following,  was  first  sent  to  school  on  January 
28,  1755,  when  only  four  years  and  three  months  old,  and 
"  he  continued  his  education "  until  his  twenty-first  year. 
I  do  not  know  who  all  of  his  teachers  were,  but  he  went  to 
school  to  William  Cox  in  1762 ;  to  John  Clay  in  1763-1764 
(said  to  have  been  afterwards  a  Baptist  minister  and  the 
father  of  Henry  Clay) ;  at  the  classical  school  of  Rev.  James 
Maury,  of  Albemarle,  of  the  Parsons'  Cause  fame,  from 
May,  1767,  to  May,  1769,  in  which  year  Mr.  Maury  died. 
Thomas  Jefferson,  Bishop  Madison,  John  Taylor,  of  Caro- 
lina, Dabney  Carr  the  elder,  and  numerous  other  distin- 
guished men  were  educated  by  Mr.  Maury. 


146  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

On  December  17,  1767,  Mr.  Maury  wrote  to  Dr.  Cabell 
as  follows :  — 

"  Sir,  ...  I  cannot  without  some  injustice  to  my  pupil 
and  violence  to  my  inclinations  help  congratulating  with 
you  on  having  a  son  who,  should  he  continue  to  behave  as 
he  has  hitherto  done  since  he  has  been  here,  must  be  one 
great  comfort  of  your  declining  age,  and  will,  I  hope,  be  a 
credit  to  his  Family  and  an  ornament  to  his  country.  For 
Nature  has  been  no  niggard  to  him  in  bestowing  her  gifts 
and  endowments,  nor  is  he  wanting  in  diligence  to  improve 
them.  And,  Sir,  you  may  rest  assured,  no  pains  in  forming 
his  morals  and  cultivating  his  genius,  as  far  as  Hes  within 
my  sphere,  shall  be  spared  by 

Your  h'ble  servant 

James  Maury." 

On  July  12,  1768,  Dr.  William  Cabell  wrote  to  his  com- 
mission merchant,  John  Backhouse,  of  Liverpool,  England, 
as  follows :  — 

"  Sir,  — Have  sent  you  by  Capt.  Breakhill  8  hhds  tobacco 
—  Please  return  by  the  same  ship,  part  of  the  nett  proceeds 
in  the  Articles  in  the  Invoice  hereto  annexed  —  the  remain- 
der I  shall  leave  in  your  hands  for  the  support  of  my  son 
who  comes  with  Mr.  Trent  to  complete  his  education.  .  .  . 
I  think  it  necessary  on  his  arrival  to  have  him  inoculated 
for  the  smallpox  to  prevent  the  danger  of  his  getting  it  in 
the  natural  way.     Your  compliance  will  oblige 

Your  Humble  Servt. 

Wm.  Cabell." 

But  the  Revolutionary  troubles  had  commenced,  the  col- 
ony was  drifting  away  from  the  mother  country,  and  so  it 
happened  that  it  was  decided  not  to  send  Nicholas  with 
Capt.  Trent,  but  to  continue  him  at  Mr.  Maury's  school, 
where  he  remained  until  the  spring  of  1769.  He  then 
went  to  William  and  Mary  College,  where  his  education  was 
completed. 

On  July  9,  1771,  his  brother.  Col.  William  Cabell,  of 
Union  Hill,  sold  him  "  a  watch  for  £6.,  which  he  is  to  pay 


THE  FOUNDER'S  CHILDREN  147 

me  for  shortly."  About  this  time  he  commenced  "  to  pay 
his  addresses "  to  Miss  Hannah,  daughter  of  Col.  George 
Carrington,  of  Cumberland,  who,  on  February  8,  1772, 
wrote  to  Dr.  William  Cabell  as  follows :  — 

"  Dear  Sir,  —  I  rec'd  yours  by  your  son  Nicholas,  whose 
intended  nearer  aUiance  to  my  family  is  agreeable  to  me. 
I  have  referred  him  to  my  daughter  and  he  can  inform  you 
what  progress  he  has  made.  He  is  a  young  man  that  I 
have  a  good  opinion  of,  and  if  they  get  together,  I  am  in 
hopes  that  you  will  find  her  a  dutiful  child  and  a  satisfac- 
tion to  you  the  remaining  part  of  your  time  here. 

I  am  with  respect  — 

Yr  very  hum'l  Servt. 

George  Carrington." 

They  were  married  on  April  16,  1772,  and  lived  with 
the  old  doctor,  at  Swan  Creek,  to  his  death  in  April, 
1774. 

So  early  as  1763,  his  father  had  given  him  by  deed  the 
profits  of  the  plantation  which  lay  next  below  his  residence, 
"  as  well  for  affection,  as  for  his  better  maintenance  and 
support ;  "  to  which,  in  1773,  he  added  by  other  deeds  aU 
the  residue  of  his  lands  and  personality  not  previously 
deeded  to  his  other  children,  except  the  tract  on  which  he 
lived,  which  tract  was  also  given  to  him  by  his  father's 
will,  dated  January  3,  1769,  and  proved  by  him,  as  his 
father's  executor,  on  June  6,  1774.  These  lands  extended 
from  above  Midway  Station,  C.  &  0.  R.  R.,  down  the 
James  River  for  more  than  five  miles.  They  were  then 
known  as  "  The  Swan  Creek  Estate,"  and  afterwards  as 
"  Liberty  Hall." 

Under  "  an  ordinance  for  raising  and  embodying  a  suffi- 
cient force  for  the  defence  and  protection  of  this  colony," 
passed  by  the  Convention  of  July  17  to  August  26,  1775, 
the  colony  was  divided  into  sixteen  districts,  and  each  dis- 
trict was  required  to  organize  a  battalion  of  minute-men, 
who  were  to  drill  and  prepare  themselves  for  the  regular 
service.     This  district  was  composed   of   the   counties  of 


148  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

Albemarle,  Amherst,  Buckingham,  and  East  Augusta.  The 
district  committee  (see  Col.  William  Cabell  the  elder)  in- 
trusted with  carrying  out  this  ordinance  met  for  the  first 
time  on  September  8,  1775,  at  the  house  of  James  Woods 
in  Amherst  County.  Present,  Charles  Lewis  and  George 
Gilmer,  from  Albemarle ;  William  Cabell,  John  Rose,  and 
Hugh  Rose,  from  Amherst ;  John  Nicholas,  Charles  Patte- 
son,  and  John  Cabell,  from  Buckingham  ;  Samuel  Matthews, 
Alexander  McClanahan,  and  Samuel  McDowell,  from  East 
Augusta ;  Thomas  Jefferson  from  Albemarle  being  the  only 
absentee.  The  committee  chose  John  Nicholas  as  chair- 
man, Charles  Rose  as  clerk,  and  proceeded  to  divide  the 
district  according;  to  the  advice  of  the  late  Convention : 
Albemarle,  Amherst,  and  Buckingham  two  companies  of 
minute-men  each,  and  East  Augusta  four.  These  ten  com- 
panies of  fifty  men  each  were  to  be  organized  into  a  battal- 
ion under  George  Matthews  (of  Augusta),  colonel ;  Charles 
Lewis  (of  Albemarle),  lieutenant-colonel ;  Daniel  Gaines  (of 
Amherst),  major,  and  Thomas  Patterson  (of  Buckingham), 
commissary.  The  Amherst  companies  were  under  (1st) 
Nicholas  Cabell,  captain ;  John  Gilmer,  lieutenant,  and 
Benjamin  Taliaferro,  ensign ;  (2d)  Gabriel  Penn,  captain ; 
David  Heffer,  lieutenant,  and  James  Pamplin,  ensign. 

The  ordinance  ordained  "  that  the  minute-men,  as  soon  as 
enlisted  and  approved,  shall  be  formed  into  the  battalions, 
and  shall  be  kept  in  training  under  their  Adjutant  for 
twenty  successive  days."  This  battalion  met  on  November 
17,  1775,  at  a  place  unknown  to  me,  "  within  three  miles 
of  Rockfish  Gap  of  the  Blue  Ridge,"  and  were  kept  in  train- 
ing until  December  6  following.  (November  17,  the  same 
day  that  the  battalion  met,  John  Ackiss  was  killed  in  an 
engagement  near  Norfolk,  the  first  blood  shed  in  Virginia.) 
Each  company  of  the  battalion  was  required  to  muster  once 
a  fortnight  (except  in  the  months  of  December,  January, 
and  February),  and  "  continue  to  exercise  for  four  successive 
days." 

Capt.  Nicholas  Cabell  mustered  his  company  March  18- 


THE  FOUNDER'S   CHILDREN  149 

21,  April  1-4,  and  continued  thus  to  exercise  them  each 
fortnight,  until  the  company  was  called  into  actual  service 
by  resolution  of  Convention  on  May  10,  1776,  for  sending 
two  battaHons  of  650  men  each  to  the  assistance  of  North 
Carolina.  One  of  these  battalions  was  to  be  raised  in  the 
counties  of  Albemarle,  Amherst,  Bedford,  Buckingham, 
Charlotte,  Hahfax,  Lunenburg,  and  Pittsylvania :  Charles 
Lewis,  of  Albemarle,  colonel ;  Haynes  Morgan,  lieutenant- 
colonel,  and  John  Glenn,  major.  The  quota  of  Amherst 
County,  one  company  of  fifty  men,  was  enlisted  in  the  ser- 
vice on  May  25  ;  Nicholas  Cabell,  captain ;  James  Pamplin,  r 
Heutenant ;  William  Spencer,  ensign ;  Jesse  Allen,  first  ser- 
geant ;  Clough  Shelton,  second  sergeant ;  Robert  Horsley, 
third  sergeant,  and  fifty  men. 

On  May  29,  the  Convention  "  ordered  that  the  march  of 
the  minute-men  and  militia  ordered  to  the  assistance  of 
North  Carolina  be  for  the  present  countermanded ;  and 
that  the  Committee  of  Safety  do  give  such  directions 
respecting  them  as  they  shall  judge  most  beneficial  for  the 
public  service." 

"  June  18.  Resolved,  That  the  two  battalions  of  minute- 
men  and  militia  lately  ordered  to  the  assistance  of  North 
Carolina  be  called  down  to  supply  the  place  of  such  regular 
forces  as  may  be  ordered  to  the  southward." 

This  resolution  was  received  by  Capt.  Nicholas  Cabell's 
company  on  the  22d,  and  the  next  day  they  set  off  down 
James  River,  going  in  canoes  to  Westham,  and  thence  by 
land  to  Jamestown.  They  remained  in  service  to  Septem- 
ber 12,  1776.  In  October,  the  services  of  minute-men  were 
dispensed  with,  and  they  were  encouraged  to  enter  the 
regular  continental  army. 

From  first  to  last  there  were  103  men  on  the  pay  rolls  of 
Capt.  Nicholas  Cabell,  five  of  whom  died  while  under  him ; 
nearly  all  of  the  others  entered  the  regular  army ;  forty  of 
them  did  so  prior  to  May,  1776. 

The  following  extracts  from  Col.  William  Cabell's  diary 
have  reference  to  this  company :  — 


150  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

"July  20,  1776.  Paid  Col.  Nevil  £3  10s.  for  a  rifle  fur- 
nished by  Captain  Thomas's  estate  to  Capt.  Nicholas  Ca- 
bell's company  of  minute-men."  "  Paid  Joseph  Cabell  £10 
2s.  for  the  guns  he  furnished  Capt.  Nicholas  Cabell's  com- 
pany with." 

[The  diary  from  June  20  to  November  2  is  missing.] 

"  Novr  2,  1776.  Paid  Captain  Nicholas  CabeU  £237  in 
part  of  his  own  and  company's  pay  to  the  12th  of  Septr. 
last." 

"  Novr  6th.  Paid  William  PoUard  £6  4s.  9d.,  for  pro- 
visions furnished  Capt.  N.  Cabell's  company  of  Minute-men 
and  for  carrying  their  baggage  to  the  river." 

«  Jan'y  6th,  1777.  Paid  Capt.  N.  CabeU  £82  15s.  7d.  in 
full  of  £319  15s.  7d.  received  for  his  own  and  company's 
pay  to  the  12th  of  September  last  as  Minute-men." 

But  under  the  resolution  of  Convention  of  May  10, 1776, 
"  a  month's  pay  was  advanced  and  forwarded  to  the  com- 
mittees of  the  counties  from  whence  the  said  troops  are  to 
march." 

The  pay  rolls  of  Capt.  Cabell's  minute-men  and  his  ac- 
counts with  the  public  are  still  extant.  The  pay  per  day 
was,  for  a  captain,  six  shillings ;  lieutenant,  four ;  ensign, 
three ;  sergeant,  two ;  corporal,  drummer,  and  fifer,  one 
shilling  and  eightpence  each,  and  a  private  one  shiUing 
and  fourpence.  A  captain  was  allowed  to  keep  two  horses, 
and  was  allowed  one  shiUing  and  sixpence  per  day  for  for- 
age for  his  horses,  and  one  shilling,  two  and  a  half  pence 
for  his  own  rations.  Hunting-shirts  were  12s.  6d.,  and  leg- 
gings 4s.  each.  Smooth-bore  guns  and  muskets  were  pur- 
chased at  a  cost  of  from  £1  10s.  to  £4  10s.  each,  and 
rifles  from  £3  to  £5  15s. 

On  October  2,  1776,  Capt.  Cabell  delivered  to  Capt. 
Samuel  Higginbotham  for  Capt.  Sale,  on  Maj.  James  Frank- 
lin's order,  seven  pots  and  one  kettle,  six  rugs,  one  tent, 
twenty-two  rifles,  and  eight  shotguns,  which  his  company 
of  minute-men  had  when  in  the  service.  On  the  next  day, 
Major  FrankHn  and  his  command  marched  from  New  Glas- 


THE  FOUNDER'S   CHILDREN  151 

gow ;  where  to,  I  do  not  know.  Capt.  John  Sale  had  been 
the  sergeant-major  of  Col.  Byrd's  regiment  in  the  Indian 
wars  prior  to  1763,  and  it  may  be  that  his  command  was 
now  to  march  against  the  Cherokees  on  the  frontiers.  Old 
Amherst  sent  her  sons  as  soldiers  to  the  north,  south,  east, 
and  west,  during  the  Revolution,  and  she  was  called  upon 
more  than  once  to  aid  in  the  protection  of  our  frontiers. 

The  references  to  Capt.  Nicholas  Cabell  in  his  brother's 
(Col.  Will's)  diary  are  nearly  all  of  a  business  character. 
Like  his  father  and  his  brothers,  he  was  fond  of  horses,  and 
at  this  time  he  owned  a  horse,  called  "  The  Maccaroni," 
which  was  celebrated  for  his  fine  looks,  etc.  There  are  sev- 
eral references  to  this  horse  in  the  diary. 

"June  12th,  1777.  By  Col.  Paul  Carrington  £8  12  6 
for  Nicholas  Cabell  on  account  of  Thomas  Harget." 

"June  16th.  Paid  for  Nicholas  Cabell,  7s.  6d.,  for  2 
boxes  of  Dockyer's  pills." 

"  June  21st.  paid  Mooney  for  painting  Nicholas  Cabell's 
[riding]  chair  30  shillings." 

"  Jan'y  30th,  1778.  Paid  Nicholas  CabeU  £400  in  pres- 
ence of  Young  Landrum  and  Daniel  Dunakin  —  also  paid 
him  £4  4s.  which  Daniel  Dunakin  paid  James  Bell,  the 
fuller,  for  fulling  16f  yards  of  cloth." 

It  being  of  the  greatest  importance  that  a  speedy  rein- 
forcement should  be  sent  to  General  Washington,  on  May 
15,  1778,  the  General  Assembly  of  Virginia  "  resolved  that 
2000  volunteers,  rank  and  file,  shall  be  raised  ...  in  the 
speediest  manner,  who  are  to  join  the  Commander-in-chief 
of  the  American  army  when  ordered  so  to  do  .  .  .  and 
that  they  serve  till  Jan'y  1st,  1779,  unless  sooner  discharged. 
That  said  volunteers,  when  raised,  be  formed  into  four  dis- 
tinct battalions  [of  ten  companies  of  fifty  men],  .  .  .  and 
that  each  battalion  be  under  command  of  a  Lt.-Colonel  com- 
mandant and  one  Major  —  and  the  whole  under  a  Briga- 
dier General.  .  .  .  The  Governor  and  Council  to  appoint 
and  commission  the  field  officers.  .  .  .  Enlistments  under 
this  Act  tp  cease  Augt  1st  1778."    This  act  is  also  referred 


152  THE   CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

to  in  the  sketch  of  Col.  Joseph  Cabell  (Assembly  of  May  to 
June,  1778).  On  June  5,  Col.  William  Cabell,  Sr.,  returned 
from  the  Assembly  and  "  delivered  Nicholas  Cabell  two  cer- 
tificates of  the  Treasurer's  for  £400  8s.  or  thereabouts," 
for  the  recruiting  service,  I  suppose. 

On  June  25,  the  governor  and  council  appointed  Nicholas 
Cabell,  lieutenant-colonel,  commandant  of  the  fourth  bat- 
tahon  aforesaid. 

«  Dec.  6th,  1778.  DeHvered  Colonel  Nicholas  CabeU  26 
tickets  in  the  2nd  Class  of  the  United  States  Lottery,  which 
I  received  of  the  Treasurer  for  his  500  and  20  dollar 
prizes  in  the  first  Class."     (Diary.) 

In  1779,  Col.  Nicholas  Cabell  was  one  of  the  first  vestry- 
men for  the  new  Amherst  Parish.  He  was  also  one  of  the 
members  of  the  House  of  Delegates  from  Amherst  County 
in  1779-1780  and  1780-1781. 

He  was  appointed  a  colonel  of  the  militia  of  Amherst 
County  some  time  prior  to  September,  1780.  "  On  Septr. 
4th,  1780,  Amherst  County  Court  certified,  that  Nicholas 
Cabell,  early  in  the  contest  with  Great  Britain,  did  actual 
service  as  Captain  of  a  minute  company ;  that  since  by 
recommendation  from  this  Court,  he  received  a  colonel's 
commission,  in  which  capacity,  he  has  acted  for  some  time 
past;  that  lately  this  Court  has  recommended  him  to  his 
Excellency  the  Governor  [Jefferson]  as  a  proper  person  for 
Colonel  of  the  1st  Battalion  of  Militia  of  this  County ;  that 
in  all  of  the  different  public  capacities  in  which  he  has 
acted  heretofore,  the  Court  entirely  approves  of  his  con- 
duct." 

A  force  for  the  southern  department  was  being  raised  in 
Virginia  at  this  time,  which  was  to  rendezvous  between 
September  10  and  25.  I  know  that  Capt.  Azariah  Martin 
of  the  first  battalion  of  militia  of  Amherst  marched  his 
company  to  the  relief  of  South  Carolina  about  this  time ; 
but  I  do  not  know  that  Col.  Cabell  and  the  whole  battalion 
went.  It  is  true,  however,  that  from  the  arrival  of  Gen. 
Leslie  in  Virginia  in   October,  1780,  to  the  surrender  of 


THE   FOUNDER'S  CHILDREN  153 

Cornwallis  in  October,  1781,  the  Virginia  militia  saw  about 
as  much  active  actual  service  as  the  regulars. 

Lafayette  was  at  the  head  of  his  forces  in  Virginia  from 
March  to  November,  1781.  According  to  one  account. 
Col.  Nicholas  Cabell  served  in  command  of  a  resfiment 
under  Lafayette.  According  to  another  account,  he  served 
on  Lafayette's  staff  at  Yorktown.  He  probably  did  both. 
I  regret  very  much  not  having  a  particular  account  of  his 
Revolutionary  services;  but  the  official  records  are  not 
complete,  and  I  cannot  find  that  any  particular  account  of 
his  services  has  been  preserved  by  his  family. 

After  the  Revolution  he  was  a  member  of  the  Virginia 
Society  of  the  Cincinnati. 

He  was  for  many  years  a  vestryman  of  his  parish  and  a 
justice  for  his  county.  He  also  represented  his  county  in 
the  House  of  Delegates  in  the  sessions  of  1783-1781:  and 
1784-1785. 

The  late  N.  F.  Cabell  said  that  "  he  determined  to  intro- 
duce the  order  of  Freemasonry  into  his  neighborhood  in 
1784,  and  a  lodge  was  established  that  year."  I  suppose 
this  was  "  The  George  Lodge,"  which  was  chartered  in 
1791. 

In  April,  1785,  he  was  elected  state  senator  from  his 
district,  composed  of  Albemarle,  Amherst,  and  Buckingham 
counties.  The  records  of  the  Senate  are  not  complete,  but 
I  am  quite  sure  that  he  continued  to  represent  this  district 
until  his  death  in  1803.  It  has  been  sometimes  stated  that 
he  retired  from  public  life  in  1800  on  account  of  declining 
health ;  but  he  was  certainly  a  state  senator  in  1801-1802 
and  1802-1803.  "  He  was  a  member  of  what  was  then 
known  as  the  Repubhcan  Party,  and  was  a  man  of  influence 
in  the  councils  of  the  State." 

On  November  13,  1788,  the  town  of  Warminster  was 
established  on  his  lands  by  act  of  Assembly. 

On  April  14, 1791,  "  The  George  Lodge  "  was  chartered 
by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Masons  of  Virginia,  to  be  held  in 
the  town  of  Warminster.     The  Rev.  Isaac  Darneille  was 


154  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

the  first  Master  of  this  lodge.  In  1794-1795  a  Masonic 
hall  was  erected  in  the  town. 

On  December  7,  1791,  the  Assembly  passed  an  act 
authorizing  William  Cabell,  Sr.,  Samuel  Meredith,  Joseph 
Cabell,  Sr.,  Nicholas  Cabell,  Sr.,  Hugh  Rose,  Wilham  Ca- 
bell, Jr.,  John  Breckenridge,  Roderick  McCulloch,  Joseph 
Cabell,  Jr.,  Robert  Rives,  Samuel  Jordan  Cabell,  Nathan 
Crawford,  and  others,  to  raise  by  way  of  lottery  a  sum  not 
exceeding  .£2000,  to  be  by  them  applied  towards  erecting 
an  academy  in  the  town  of  Warminster.  At  a  meeting  of 
the  trustees  in  the  town  on  June  23,  1795,  Col.  William  Ca- 
bell, Sr.,  was  unanimously  elected  president,  and  to  supply 
the  places  of  those  dead,  declined,  and  removed,  Landon 
Cabell,  William  B.  Hare,  WiUiam  H.  Cabell,  Wilham  Hors- 
ley,  and  others  were  added  to  the  board.  "  And  Robert 
Rives,  Landon  Cabell  and  Saml.  J.  Cabell  were  appointed 
a  committee  to  suggest  and  prepare  a  scheme  of  a  Lottery 

for  raising  the  sum  of pounds  for  the  Academy,  and 

report  the  same  to  the  next  meeting  of  a  board  of  Trus- 
tees." 

The  lottery  was  a  favorite  institution  in  those  days  for 
erecting  academies,  churches,  etc. 

In  December,  1790,  the  Assembly  passed  an  act  author- 
izing the  trustees  of  Warminster  to  raise  £200,  "  by  one 
or  more  lotteries,  to  be  by  them  applied  towards  building  a 
church  in  the  vicinity  of  the  said  Town." 

On  September  7,  1794,  Col.  Nicholas  Cabell's  daughter 
Hannah  died,  and  on  the  next  day,  his  daughter  Henning- 
ham.  Their  funeral  sermon  was  preached  by  the  Rev. 
Charles  O'Neal,  who  had  previously  resided  in  the  family  of 
Col.  Cabell,  and  taught  a  classical  school  near  by.^ 

Col.  Nicholas  Cabell  was  one  of  the  trustees  of  "  The 
College  of  Washington  in  Virginia  "  in  1796-1797. 

For  many  years  Col.  Cabell  was  a  constant  attendant 
on  the  Grand  Lodge  (Masons)  of  Virginia,  in  which  he  at 
several  times  filled  several  positions  of   trust  and    honor. 

^  See  Bishop  Meade's  Old  Churches,  etc.,  vol.  ii.  pp.  62,  63. 


THE  FOUNDER'S   CHILDREN  155 

In  1792,  he  was  grand  treasurer,  pro  tern. ;  in  1795,  he 
was  grand  senior  warden ;  and  in  1796,  he  presided  over 
the  Grand  Lodge  of  Virginia  as  acting  Grand  Master. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  state  Senate  in  the  General 
Assembly  of  1798,  and  voted  for  the  famous  resolutions  of 
that  session  on  the  Alien  and  Sedition  laws. 

He  was  a  progressive  farmer,  encouraged  improvements 
in  the  cultivation  of  land,  and  in  stock,  —  importing  fine 
horses,  etc.  He  owned  "  The  Maccaroni,"  "  The  Grena- 
dier," and  other  horses  of  note  in  their  day. 

"  In  1800,  his  health  began  to  decline.  In  1802,  he  made 
a  trip  to  the  Virginia  Springs,  where  he  received  sufficient 
benefit  to  encourage  his  return  in  1803.  While  on  this 
second  trip,  in  descending  the  western  slope  of  the  Blue 
Ridge,  on  foot,  he  trod  on  a  stone,  which  turning  caused 
him  to  fall,  whereby  he  was  much  bruised  and  received 
quite  a  serious  wound.  He  was  conveyed  to  a  house 
near  by,  received  such  attention,  medical  and  other,  as  the 
neighborhood  afforded ;  but  the  shock  to  his  then  feeble 
system  was  so  great  as  to  produce  a  fatal  result  in  a  few 
days. 

"  He  died  Augt.  18th,  1803,  in  the  53d  year  of  his  age, 
and  his  remains  were  brought  home  and  laid  in  the  family 
cemetery  at  Warminster,  next  to  those  of  his  father. 

"  In  person  he  was  tall,  well  proportioned,  of  erect  car- 
riage in  earlier  life,  though  stooping  somewhat  with  advan- 
cing years.  His  features  were  regular,  with  high  forehead, 
aquiline  nose,  and  a  brilKant  black  eye.  Much  of  the 
manly  beauty  for  which  he  had  been  distinguished  when 
young  had  faded,  but  his  eye  remained  undimmed,  and  his 
countenance  retained  its  highly  intellectual  expression  to 
the  last. 

"While  he  was  noted  for  his  personal  intrepidity  and 
decision  of  character  in  private  life,  he  was  most  amiable  in 
all  the  domestic  relations,  warm  in  his  friendships,  kind  to 
the  poor,  tenderly  sympathizing  as  a  woman  with  all  objects 
of  suffering  or  distress." 


156  THE   CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

His  will  was  written  on  July  10,  1799.  He  added  a 
codicil  on  February  3,  1802.  It  was  proved  at  Amherst 
court  on  November  21-22,  1803 ;  and  William  H.  Cabell 
and  William  B.  Hare  qualified  as  executors  on  April  20, 
1807. 

Mrs.  Hannah  Carrington  CaheU,  born  March  28,  1751, 
survived  her  husband  nearly  fourteen  years.  She  resided 
mostly  with  Dr.  Hare  at  his  seat  "  Harewood,"  wliere  she 
could  be  more  constantly  with  her  granddaughters,  the 
children  of  Mrs  Hare,  of  whom  she  had  taken  general 
charofe  since  the  death  of  their  mother. 

Mrs.  Cabell  died  August  7, 1817,  Avas  buried  in  the  family 
cemetery  at  Liberty  Hall,  and  her  funeral  sermon  was 
preached  by  Bishop  Richard  Channing  Moore,  September 
11,  1817. 

The  following  obituary  notice  is  thought  to  have  been 
written  by  the  Hon.  William  Wirt :  — 

"  Died,  on  the  7th  Instant,  at  Montevideo  (the  seat  of 
Judge  Cabell  in  Buckingham  County)  Mrs.  Hannah  CabeU 
(widow  of  the  late  Col.  Nicholas  Cabell  and  mother  of  the 
judge)  in  the  67th  year  of  her  age ;  after  a  severe  illness 
of  six  and  thirty  days. 

"  This  venerable  matron  possessed,  in  a  high  degree,  that 

uncommon  streno-th  of  character  that  distinofuishes  the  Car- 
es o 

rington  family,  to  which  she  belonged ;  a  spirit,  frank, 
erect,  firm,  and  independent ;  with  a  solid  understanding, 
a  sound  judgment,  a  most  inflexible  integrity,  and  a  warm, 
kind,  and  affectionate  heart,  which  carried  her  on  steadily 
and  cheerfully  to  a  good  old  age,  in  the  faithful  discharge 
of  every  duty,  social  and  domestic.  She  was,  moreover,  a 
sincere  Christian,  and  displayed  its  genuine  character  not 
only  through  life  and  in  health,  but  in  the  trying  time  of 
sickness,  and  above  all,  in  that  awful  hour  in  which  she 
met  and  even  welcomed  the  approach  of  Death. 

"  Nor  were  these  excellent  qualities  without  their  earthly 
reward ;  for  among  other  blessings,  she  lived  to  rear  and 
see  established  around  her  one  of  the  most  respected  and 


MRS.    HANNAH   CARRINGTON   CABELL 


THE  FOUNDER'S  CHILDREN  157 

truly  respectable  families  in  Virginia ;  and  although  now 
removed  from  the  contemplation  and  enjoyment  of  a  spec- 
tacle which  must  have  been  so  truly  grateful  to  her  mind 
and  heart,  yet  her  friends  have  the  well-founded  conso- 
lation that  she  is  gone  to  reap  that  still  brighter  and  im- 
perishable reward  which  crowns  the  death  of  the  righteous ; 
They  are  told  by  an  Authority  which  cannot  err,  '  Blessed 
are  the  dead  that  die  in  the  Lord.' 

"  A  friend,  not  related  to  Mrs.  Cabell,  but  who  had  the 
happiness  of  her  acquaintance  and  an  opportunity  of  know- 
ing her  uncommon  worth,  offers  this  voluntary,  but  feeble 
and  unavailing  tribute  to  her  memory."  ^ 

Col.  George  Carrington  (her  father)  was  born  in  Saint 
Philip's  Parish  in  the  island  of  Barbadoes,  in  the  year 
1711 ;  emigrated  therefrom  to  Virginia  with  his  brother-in- 
law,  Joseph  Mayo  (he  married,  in  1716,  Ann  Carrington), 
who  bought  land  in  Henrico  County  (where  Hooper's  Rock, 
Cumberland  County,  now  is),  in  September,  1723. 

Mr.  Mayo  had  been  a  merchant  in  Barbadoes.  After  his 
arrival  in  Virginia,  he  purchased  and  settled  the  ancient 
seat  of  the  chiefs  of  the  Powhatan  tribe  of  Indians,  near 
the  foot  of  the  falls  of  James  River,  where  he  opened  a 
store,  and  George  Carrington  resided  with  him  for  some 
years  as  an  assistant  storekeeper. 

Prior  to  June  26,  1732,  George  Carrington  married 
Anne,  the  daughter  of  Maj.  WilUam  Mayo,  the  surveyor, 
by  his  first  wife,  Frances  Gould. 

The  following  deeds,  recorded  at  Goochland  Court 
House,  have  reference  to  this  marriage :  — 

Deed  dated  June  26,  1732.  William  Mayo  of  Goochland 
County  conveyed  to  his  daughter,  Anne  Mayo,  six  negroes 
which  he  hath  at  his  plantation  on  WiUis  River,  alias 
Willis  Creek. 

Deed  dated  June  26, 1732.  WiUiam  Mayo,  of  Goochland, 
conveyed  to  George  Carrington  and  Anne  Mayo  (daughter 
of  said   William)  a   tract   of  land   on   Willis   River,  alias 

^  From  the  Richmond  Enquirer  of  August  26,  1817. 


158  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

Willis  Creek,  containing  2850  acres,  bounded  as  by  patent 
to  said  Mayo,  dated  August  25,  1731.  Anne  Mayo,  the 
second  wife  of  the  said  William,  joined  in  the  deed. 

The  young  couple  settled  on  this  estate,  which  they  called 
"Boston  Hill."  Their  residence  was  located  about  two 
miles  from  the  mouth  of  Willis  River  in  the  present  county 
of  Cumberland. 

At  November  court,  1734,  George  Carrington,  who  had 
been  commissioned  by  the  president  and  masters  of  the 
College  of  William  and  Mary,  qualified  as  an  assistant  sur- 
veyor of  Goochland  County.  He  also  qualified  as  a  justice 
of  the  peace  for  the  county  at  the  same  time. 

In  1743,  he  patented  5650  acres  of  land  along  the  pres- 
ent line  between  Buckingham  and  Cumberland,  and  on 
December  17  of  the  same  year,  in  partnership  with  his 
brother-in-law,  Edmund  Gray,  he  entered  mth  Maj.  Wil- 
liam Mayo,  the  surveyor,  for  6000  acres  on  Harris  Creek  in 
the  present  county  of  Amherst,  above  Lynchburg.  Of  this 
land,  3374  acres  was  surveyed  for  Maj.  George  Carrington 
by  Dr.  William  CabeU,  AprH  15,  1748.  Edmund  Gray 
married  in  July,  1743,  Mary,  daughter  of  Maj.  William 
Mayo.  He  was  the  first  king's  attorney  for  Albemarle, 
1745-1746,  and  a  justice  of  the  peace  for  that  county, 
1747-1749.  In  October,  1749,  he  made  sundry  deeds  of 
record  in  Albemarle  to  William  Gray,  of  New  Kent.  On 
one  of  Dr.  Cabell's  papers  I  find  this  note :  "  Edmund 
Gray,  has  run  away."  His  part  of  the  entry  on  Harris 
Creek  was  finally  surveyed  for  George  Carrington  on  June 
15,  1750,  turning  out  3350  acres. 

On  June  22,  1744,  Carrington  entered  for  3000  acres 
"  adjoining  Phihp  Mayo,  on  Bridle  Creek  and  Piney  Moun- 
tain," to  which  tract  he  added  2000  acres  in  1747.  In 
1745,  he  entered  for  9997  acres  on  Randolph  Creek,  adjoin- 
ing Isaac  Bates,  John  and  William  Cannon,  Thomas  Ed- 
wards, and  Job  Thomas.  He  made  several  other  entries  for 
small  quantities  of  land,  and  also  bought  land  from  others. 

He  was  a  burgess  from  Goochland  in  1747-1749,  and 


THE  FOUNDER'S  CHILDREN  159 

probably  prior  thereto.  He  was  a  burgess  from  the  new 
county  of  Cumberland  in  1749,  1752,  1753,  1755,  1756, 
1757,  1758,  1759,  1761,  1762,  1763,  1764,  and  1765. 
These  are  the  only  certain  dates  which  I  have,  but  I  am  quite 
sure  that  he  was  a  burgess  from  1747  to  1765  inclusive, 
and  probably  for  years  after  1765.  I  have  seen  it  stated 
that  "  he  was  a  Burgess  up  to  1775,  and  a  member  of  the 
General  Assembly  [for  what  years,  not  stated]  after  1776." 

He  was  a  vestryman,  or  churchwarden,  from  early  man- 
hood to  his  death. 

He  was  a  captain  in  1740 ;  a  major  in  1743 ;  and  after- 
wards lieutenant-colonel  and  colonel  of  Goochland  County. 

On  May  22,  1749,  on  the  organization  of  the  new  county 
of  Cumberland,  he  was  the  first  county  lieutenant  and 
presiding  justice.  At  the  coming  on  of  the  Revolution 
he  was  the  chairman  of  the  Cumberland  County  committee 
of  1774-1776. 

These  committees,  first  recommended  by  the  Convention 
of  August,  1774,  were  soon  chosen  in  each  county.  They 
met  at  varying  dates,  and  theii-  proceedings  became  of  con- 
stantly increasing  importance.  Col.  William  Cabell  was 
chairman  of  the  Amherst  committee ;  Thomas  Jefferson  of 
Albemarle ;  Col.  John  Cabell  of  Buckingham ;  Col.  Paul 
Carrington  of  Charlotte ;  Col.  James  Callaway  of  Bedford, 
etc.  I  have  naturally  taken  an  especial  interest  in  these 
old  patriotic  county  committees,  the  nurseries  of  our  Revo- 
lution in  Virginia,  which  have  not  received  the  considera- 
tion due  them.  I  have  but  few  particulars  of  their  earliest 
meetings,  but  I  have  the  fragment  of  the  report  of  the 
Cumberland  committee  from  February  18,  1775,  to  October 
28,  1776,  and  I  have  "scraps"  enough  of  the  rest  to  show 
that  the  acts  of  this  committee  are  fair  samples  of  the  acts 
of  the  other  committees  in  this  section.  Therefore  I  will 
give  an  outline  of  the  proceedings  of  this  committee. 

The  preserved  record  of  their  proceedings  begins  with 
their  meeting  at  Cumberland  Court  House,  Fehruary  18, 
1775,  from  which  I  make  the  following  extracts :  — 


160  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

"  Resolved,  That  Friday  the  tenth  day  of  March  next  be 
appointed  for  the  Freeholders  to  meet  at  the  Court  House 
to  elect  Delegates  to  attend  the  Convention  to  meet  at  Rich- 
mond, the  20th  March,  and  it  is  recommended  to  all  the 
Freeholders  to  attend  accordingly." 

Three  shillings  per  pound  offered  for  the  first  fifty 
pounds  of  good  gunpowder  manufactured  in  America 
"  wholly  of  American  materials." 

"  Resolved,  That  the  defenceless  state  of  this  country 
renders  it  indispensably  necessary  that  a  quantity  of  ammu- 
nition should  be  immediately  provided,"  —  being  for  the 
public  benefit,  should  be  provided  by  a  general  and  equal 
contribution.  And  as  "  no  method  hath  been  adopted  nor 
powers  created  to  levy  monies  to  put  this  Colony  in  a  Pos- 
ture of  Defence  against  the  oppressive  measure  of  the  Brit- 
ish Parliament :  —  It  is  the  opinion  of  this  committee  that 
William  Fleming,  John  Hyde  Saunders,  Edward  Carrington, 
and  Carter  Henry  Harrison  do  draw  up  and  prepare  proper 
Instructions  empowering  the  Delegates  "  to  the  Convention 
of  March  20  to  take  the  proper  steps  in  the  premises.  That 
each  member  of  the  committee  sliaU  take  a  copy  of  these 
instructions  and  prevail  on  the  freeholders  of  the  county  to 
sign  it ;  and  if  any  one  refuses  to  sign,  his  name  to  be  given 
in  at  the  next  committee  meeting  "  to  the  End  that  the 
Enemies  of  America  may  be  known." 

They  approve  the  proceedings  of  the  Continental  Con- 
gress, held  at  Philadelphia,  September  5,  1774,  and  order 
the  above  select  committee  to  draft  an  addi-ess  to  be  pre- 
sented to  the  members  thereof  from  Virginia. 

The  £15  due  from  the  county  for  the  support  of  the 
provincial  delegates  to  the  Continental  Congress  of  May 
next  must  be  handed  to  the  county  delegates  to  the  Conven- 
tion on  or  before  March  20. 

To  see  that  the  merchants  of  the  county  do  not  "  infringe 
the  Association  of  the  late  Continental  Congress." 

"  Friday,  March  10th,  1775:'     (The  next  meeting.) 

The  addresses  of  thanks  "  To  the  Honorable  Peyton  Ran- 


THE   FOUNDER'S   CHILDREN  161 

dolpli  Esq.,  Richard  Henry  Lee,  George  Washington,  Pat- 
rick Henry,  Jr.,  Richard  Bland,  Benjamin  Harrison,  and 
Edmund  Pendleton,  Esquires,  the  delegates  from  the  colony 
who  attended  the  Continental  Congress  held  at  Philadelphia 
Sept.  5th,  1774,"  was  read  and  approved,  and  ordered  "  to 
be  transmitted  to  the  Printers  to  be  published  in  '  The  Vir- 
ginia Gazette.'  "  It  is  very  patriotic.  They  thank  the  dele- 
gates, pledge  their  cooperation,  advise  "  to  prepare  for  every 
contingency,"  and  assure  them,  "  that  we  shall  be  ready  to 
risque  our  Lives  and  Fortunes  in  your  Defence  whenever 
any  personal  insult  shall  be  offered  you  by  the  Tools  of  an 
incensed  and  corrupt  Administration." 

The  instructions  to  the  county  delegates  were  also  read 
and  approved. 

The  election  was  held  under  the  supervision  of  Joseph 
Carrington,  Rev.  Mr.  Saunders,  and  Henry  Macon,  of  the 
committee.     John  Mayo  and  William  Fleming  were  chosen, 

"  Friday,  Aiwil  20th,  1775:'     (The  next  meeting.) 

They  approve  of  "  the  Proceedings  and  Resolutions  of  the 
late  provincial  Convention  [March  20  to  27].  ...  In  com- 
pliance with  their  recommendation,  one  shilling  and  three 
pence  to  be  collected  from  every  tithable  person  (^jer  the 
list  taken  on  June  10,  1774),  for  providing  ammunition  and 
other  articles  of  military  preparation."  To  avoid  any  fur- 
ther request  for  money,  the  members  of  the  committee  under 
take  to  collect  the  same  without  charge.  "  Mr.  Littleberry 
Mosby,  Mr.  Richard  James,  Mr.  Joseph  Carrington,  Mr. 
George  Carrington,  Jr,  and  Mr.  Edward  Carrington  to 
divide  the  county  into  24  Districts  and  allot  to  each  mem- 
ber his  District  for  collection."  Those  refusing  to  pay,  to 
be  reported  to  the  committee,  "  in  order  that  the  Foes  to 
the  cause  of  Freedom  may  he  knownr  The  chairman, 
Col.  George  Carrington,  was  appointed  treasurer,  to  receive 
this  money  when  collected.  Mr.  John  Mayo,  Mr.  James 
Pleasants  (a  Quaker),  and  Mr.  Charles  Woodson,  Jr.,  were 
appointed  as  a  select  committee  to  procure  at  once  500  lbs. 
gunpowder,  1000  lbs.  lead,  and  2000  flints  for  the  use  of 


162  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

the  county.  Wednesday,  May  17,  appointed  for  the  elec- 
tion of  delegates  to  represent  the  county  in  the  provincial 
convention.  "  The  bestowing  any  Victuals  or  strong 
Liquors  by  way  of  Treat "  at  elections  forbidden. 

The  battle  of  Lexington  was  fought  on  April  19,  1775. 
On  May  1,  the  committee  met,  and  Col.  George  Carring- 
ton,  "  the  chairman,  opened  the  Business  of  the  day  by  lay- 
ing* before  the  Committee  the  Information  received  from 
the  Northward,  respecting  the  attack  lately  made  by  the 
British  Troops  on  the  Inhabitants  of  Massachusetts  Bay," 
and,  after  the  maturest  deliberation,  the  committee  passed  a 
very  patriotic  resolution  thereon,  regarding  assisting  "  our 
Brethren  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay,"  etc.,  and  appointing 
May  10  for  a  general  muster  of  the  militia  equipped  with 
whatever  arms  and  ammunition  they  can  procure. 

May  3.  The  committee  thank  "  Capt.  Charles  Scott  and 
his  Independent  company  for  their  spirited  offers  of  their 
service  in  defending  this  Colony  against  wicked  Invaders," 
etc. 

May  10.  Col.  George  Carrington,  the  chairman,  informed 
the  committee  that  he  as  treasurer  had  received  £158  0  3 
(2532  tithes),  a  free  contribution  of  the  inhabitants  for  the 
purchase  of  ammunition,  etc.  Edward  Carrington  was 
empowered  to  invest  the  money  to  the  best  advantage. 

Mr.  Carter  Henry  Harrison  and  Mr.  WiUiam  Fleming 
were  appointed  to  prepare  an  address  to  the  inhabitants  of 
the  lower  parts  of  this  colony  inviting  them  to  remove  to 
this  county  in  case  of  an  invasion,  etc. 

"  May  17,  1775.  Mr.  Chairman  opened  the  Business  of 
the  Day  by  laying  before  the  Committee  the  Information 
lately  received  by  Express  from  the  Northward  respecting 
the  government  of  New  York,  among  which  is  a  Resolution 
of  the  Maryland  Provincial  Convention,  for  immediately 
suspending  all  Exportations  from  that  Province  to  Quebec," 
etc.  After  dehberation  thereon,  the  committee  passed  a 
resolution  urging  Robert  Carter  Nicholas,  Esq,  "  to  call  a 
Colony  Convention  as  speedily  as  possible,  provided  The 


THE  FOUNDER'S  CHILDREN  163 

General  Assembly,  now  called  to  meet  on  the  first  Thurs- 
day in  June,  shall  be  prorogued  to  a  further  day."  They 
recommend  that  the  public  treasury  of  the  colony  should  be 
removed  nearer  the  centre,  where  it  would  be  more  secure. 

The  address  to  the  inhabitants  of  the  lower  parts  was 
read  and  approved.  Like  all  the  expressions  of  the  com- 
mittee, it  was  remarkably  patriotic.  I  do  not  know  that 
any  of  the  old  Virginia  county  meetings  declared  openly 
for  out  and  out  independence  so  soon  as  this,  as  the  Meck- 
lenburg, N.  C,  meeting  is  said  to  have  done,  May  20,  1775, 
but  the  handwriting  was  certainly  on  the  wall  of  these  old 
committees  as  early  as  February,  1775. 

June  30.  Mr.  Edward  Carrington  and  Mr.  Richard  James 
report  that  they  have  not  been  able  to  find  any  gunpowder. 
Mr.  Richard  Eggleston  and  George  Carrington,  Jr.,  of  this 
committee,  to  apply  to  the  committee  of  Amelia ;  Mr.  John 
Mayo  to  that  of  Chesterfield ;  Mr.  WilHam  Fleming  to 
Goochland,  and  Mr.  Edward  Carrington  to  the  committees 
of  Buckingham  and  Prince  Edward  ;  "  and  request  them  to 
join  this  committee  by  way  of  subscription  in  erecting  a 
powder  Mill  with  six  Beaters  on  each  side."  Mr.  William 
Fleming  and  Mr.  Edward  Carrington  to  draw  a  scheme  for 
the  purpose  aforesaid.  Then  a  long  and  most  patriotic 
"Address  to  the  Inhabitants  of  this  County  was  proposed 
and  unanimously  agreed  to."  They  tell  the  people  plainly 
that  there  is  no  "  prospect  of  an  accommodation  with  the 
parent  state."  "  For  instance  we  need  only  to  refer  you  to 
the  late  conduct  of  that  Mercenary,  ministerial  Tool,  Lord 
Dunmore,  within  your  own  colony."  "  You  may  indeed 
consider  yourselves  as  in  a  state  of  War  with  Great  Britain, 
for  several  engagements  have  been  between  her  Troops  and 
the  Lihabitants  of  your  sister  Colony  of  Massachusetts  Bay, 
and  each  power  still  stands  in  opposite  military  Array.  All 
the  American  Colonies  have  long  since  united  in  opposing 
British  oppression,  a  Blow,  therefore,  struck  at  one,  must 
be  considered  as  struck  at  all.  ...  In  your  arms,  under 
divine  Providence,  rests  your  security.      We  entreat  you 


164  THE   CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

therefore  by  that  Regard  you  have  for  the  safety  of  your 
own  persons ;  for  your  Liberties,  civil  and  religious ;  for 
everything  which  can  render  your  Being  on  Earth  happy ; 
for  what  is  of  more  iceighty  consideration  —  the  Ha])2n- 
ness  of  your  Posterity  for  endless  Ages  to  come  —  under 
sanction  of  that  confidence  you  repose  in  us  —  that  without 
delay,  you  take  up  your  arms;  put  them  in  the  best  condi- 
tion ;  get  acquainted  with  military  Discipline ;  and  stand  in 
readiness  for  actual  service,  upon  the  first  sound  of  the 
Trumpet  of  War." 

July  20  was  to  be  observed  as  a  day  of  "  publick  Hu- 
mihation,  Fasting  and  Prayer."  And  the  address  was  to 
be  read  by  the  ministers  to  their  congregations,  and  printed 
by  Mr.  Purdie. 

In  reply  to  "  a  Letter  dated  the  27th  June,"  it  was 
"  Resolved  that  Captain  Charles  Scott  be  in  the  most  re- 
spectful manner  requested  to  detach  25  men  from  his  Com- 
pany to  join  a  Body  for  the  Protection  of  Williamsburgh." 

''August  28,  177S"  Mr.  Chairman,  Mr.  James  Pleas- 
ants, and  Mr.  Carter  Henry  Harrison,  with  Mr.  Littleberry 
Mosby,  Mr.  George  Carrington,  Jr.,  and  Mr.  Charles  Wood- 
son as  alternates,  were  appointed  to  attend  as  deputies 
"  the  Amelia  District  Committee."  This  was  similar  to 
"  The  Buckingham  District  Committee,"  which  met  in  Am- 
herst, September  8,  1775.  (See  Cols.  William  and  Nicho- 
las Cabell.) 

Sejjteniber  26.  The  committee  elect  Col.  George  Car- 
rington, county  lieutenant ;  William  Fleming,  colonel ; 
Beverley  Randolph,  Heutenant-colonel ;  and  Henry  Skip- 
with,  major. 

October  17.  The  committee  elect  proper  persons  for  cap- 
tains, lieutenants,  and  ensigns  of  the  mihtia  of  the  county. 

The  meetings  of  October  23,  November  3  and  18,  were 
especially  devoted  to  military  matters,  —  inspecting  the 
minute-men,  administering  oaths  to  officers,  etc.,  etc. 

November  27.  The  election  of  a  new  committee,  under 
the  ordinance  of  the  July,  1775,  Convention,  took  place. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  CHILDREN  165 

Twelve  of  the  old  committee  retired,  namely :  Joseph 
Carrington,  Richard  James,  Robert  Smith,  Benjamin  Wil- 
son, Joseph  Calland,  Edward  Carrington,  John  Woodson, 
John  Hyde  Saunders,  Henry  Macon,  Richard  Eggleston, 
William  Smith,  and  Peter  Stoner.  (Some  of  these  had 
entered  the  army.)  Twelve  of  the  old  committee  were 
reelected,  namely :  George  Carrington,  William  Fleming, 
John  Mayo,  Littleberry  Mosby,  Carter  Henry  Harrison, 
George  Carrington,  Jr.,  John  Netnerland,  Maurice  Lang- 
horne,  Frederick  Hatcher,  Charles  Woodson,  Jr.,  James 
Pleasants,  and  Edward  Haskins.  To  these  were  added  nine 
new  members  to  make  twenty-one,  the  fixed  number, 
namely :  Beverley  Randolph,  Seymour  Scott,  Thomas  Har- 
ris, Henry  Skipwith,  Arthur  Moseley,  John  Harris,  Miller 
Woodson,  Archer  Allen.  For  the  ninth  place  there  was 
a  contested  election  case  between  Thomas  Davenport  and 
Bartlett  Thompson.  The  latter  finally  got  the  place.  The 
trouble  was  owing  to  William  Daniel  and  several  others 
voting  by  mistake  for  "  Bartholomew  "  Thompson. 

December  7,  1775.  The  new  committee  met  for  the  first 
time.  They  reelect  Col.  George  Carrington,  chairman,  and 
Thomas  Miller,  clerk. 

The  next  meetings  were  devoted  to  military  matters,  etc. 

February  29,  1776.  Mr.  Carter  Henry  Harrison  read  a 
very  patriotic  paper,  concluding  with  the  following  reso- 
lution, which  passed  unanimously :  "  Resolved  that  it  be 
recommended  to  the  Inhabitants  of  this  County  in  par- 
ticular, and  the  Colony  in  general,  that  all  Distinction  of 
Colonies  and  Counties  be  laid  aside  ;  that  there  be  no  other 
name  known  among  them  than  that  of  Americans,  and  that 
every  man,  who  will  heartily  join  in  this  common  and  ever 
glorious  struggle  for  Liberty,  be  considered  and  treated  as 
an  American  born." 

On  February  5,  Thomas  Miller  had  been  directed  to 
purchase  some  patriotic  literature  for  the  use  of  the  county. 
On  the  29th,  he  reported  that  he  had  purchased  of  Dixon 
&  Hunter  sundry  speeches  of  the  bishop  of  St.  Asaph,  and 


166  THE   CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

pamphlets  of  "one  Sharp  "  (Granville  Sharp ?),  and  " that 
agreeable  to  the  Resolution  of  this  committee "  he  had 
encouraged  the  reprinting  of  the  speech  of  Edmund  Burke, 
Esq.,  on  the  "  American  Question." 

April  5.  Carter  Henry  Harrison,  James  Pleasants 
(a  Quaker),  William  Fleming,  and  George  Carrington,  Jr., 
were  ordered  to  draw  up  instructions  for  the  delegates  in 
convention  to  be  chosen  for  this  county  on  next  court  day, 
directing  them  what  line  of  conduct  to  pursue  in  their 
future  deliberations.  The  instructions  drawn  up  by  this 
sub-committee  were  reported  to  the  whole  committee  by 
Mr.  Harrison  at  the  meeting  of  April  22.  Having  been 
agreed  to  by  the  people,  they  were  now  approved  by  the 
committee  and  handed  to  the  chosen  delegates,  John  Mayo 
and  Wilham  Fleming,  Gents. 

The  instructions  contain  about  800  words,  and  every 
word  has  the  regular  Revolutionary  ring.  "  We  therefore 
your  Constituents  instruct  you  positively  to  declare  for  an 
Independency ;  that  you  solemnly  abjure  any  Allegiance  to 
his  Britannick  Majesty,  and  bid  him  a  good  night  forever." 
"  That  no  Terms  of  accommodation  be  now  listened  to  from 
the  British  Court,  without  a  previous  Renunciation  from 
the  King  of  Great  Britain  of  all  Right,  Title,  or  Authority 
in  and  over  these  Colonies,  and  a  formal  and  solemn  Recog- 
nition of  our  Rights  and  Independency,"  etc.  Among  the 
grievances  against  the  king  was  his  having  "  forced  the 
slave  Trade  on  us  for  several  years." 

They  advise  the  issuing  of  paper  money  as  necessary  to 
meet  the  expenses  of  the  war. 

"  They  recommend  that  so  much  of  the  Liturgy  of  the 
Church  as  respects  the  King  be  altered ;  that  a  prayer  for 
the  Preservation,  Happiness  and  Union  of  the  Colonies  be 
substituted,  and  that  the  Clergy  be  directed  to  use  the  same 
on  pain  of  an  immediate  Removal." 

It  was  ordered  that  May  17,  1776,  be  observed  as  "  a 
Day  of  Humiliation,  Fasting  and  Prayer." 

The    subsequent   meetings,  May-October,  continued   to 


THE  FOUNDER'S   CHILDREN  167 

be  of  the  same  character.  But  little,  however,  was  done 
by  the  county  committees,  after  the  reorganization  of  the 
county  courts  in  August ;  and  after  the  adjournment  of  the 
General  Assembly,  December  21,  1776,  they  were  generally 
dissolved.  "  The  Court  of  the  County,  and  the  Court 
Martial  of  Field  Officers  and  Captains  taking  by  the  Consti- 
tution and  Frame  of  Government  the  Business  into  their 
hands  which  heretofore  had  belonged  to  the  County  Com- 
mittees in  the  unsettled  State  of  Affairs.'* 

The  services  rendered  by  these  old  county  committees 
cannot  be  overestimated.  For  nearly  two  years  the  colony 
was  really  governed  by  them,  and  the  destinies  of  the  State 
were  virtually  in  their  hands.  Composed  of  the  most  dis- 
creet, fit,  and  able  men  of  each  county,  —  the  landed  gentry, 
the  aristocrats,  so-called,  prominent  in  Church  and  State,  — 
many  of  them  had  personally  more  to  lose  than  to  gain  by 
the  change.  They  sacrificed  their  interests  to  their  coun- 
try's cause,  and  proved  themselves  true  patriots. 

The  following  obituary  of  Col.  George  Carrington  and 
his  wife  was  found  in  the  pocketbook  of  their  daughter, 
Mrs.  Joseph  Watkins,  after  her  death. 

"  Departed  this  life  at  their  seat  in  Cumberland  County, 
Monday  the  7th  of  February  1785,  Colonel  George  Car- 
rington in  his  74th  year ;  and  on  Tuesday  the  15th  his 
Consort,  Mrs.  Ann  Carrington  in  her  73rd  year ;  whose 
eminent  characters  in  piety,  patriotism,  justice  and  benevo- 
lence are  too  generally  known  to  require  a  particular  rela- 
lation.  On  Monday  the  21st  their  remains  were  interred 
attended  by  their  numerous  family,  whose  ardent  affections 
they  had  attached  by  a  constant  anxiety  and  care  to  con- 
duct them  to  reputation,  propriety  and  happiness ;  and  a 
great  concourse  of  the  neighborhood,  and  County.  Whose 
zealous  friendship  and  regard  had  grown  upon  the  experi- 
ence of  their  long  spent  lives :  his,  in  the  most  faithful 
exercise  of  the  offices  of  representative,  magistrate,  and 
many  others  which  his  county  conferred  on  him.     Hers,  in 


168  THE   CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

doing  all  the  good  she  could,  in  acts  of  charity  and  tender- 
ness. It  is  remarkable  that  this  happy  pair,  who  Hved  53 
years  married,  have  often  in  their  latter  days  been  heard  to 
"wish  that  the  same  period  might  terminate  their  lives." 

They  were  buried  at  "Boston  Hill,"  and  their  funeral 
sermon  was  preached  by  Rev.  Christopher  Macrae.^ 

Col,  George  Carrington  was  a  son  of  Dr.  Paul  Carrington, 
of  Barbadoes,  by  his  second  wife,  Henningham  Codrington, 
who  lies  buried  in  St.  Philip's  Parish,  under  a  monument 
thus  inscribed :  .  .  .  "  Henningham  Carrington,  widow  of 
Paul  Carrington,  .  .   .  Obit.  Jan.  28,  1741,  ^t.  69." 

This  date  is  old  style.  She  was  born  in  1673,  a  grand- 
daughter of  Christopher  Codrington,  Esq.  (who  removed  in 
the  time  of  Charles  I.,  with  his  entire  property,  to  the 
island  of  Barbadoes),  the  second  son  of  Robert  Codrington, 
Esq.,  of  Didmarton,  Gloucestershire,  the  son  of  Simon  Cod- 
rington, a  member  of  the  Virginia  Company  of  London, 
who  was,  I  beheve,  so  far  as  the  records  now  preserved 
show,  the  first  individual  Englishman  to  own  in  his  own 
rio-ht  a  foot  of  land  in  America.  His  sfrant  from  the  Vir- 
ginia  Company,  according  to  the  memoranda  now  preserved 
in  the  British  Museum,  was  for  100  acres  of  land,  and 
bore  the  date  "  March  6th,  1615  ;  "  i.  e.,  March  16,  1616, 
present  style.  He  was  the  son  of  Simon  Codrington,  the 
elder,  by  his  wife,  Mary  Callaway,  through  whom  he  was 
probably  related  to  the  Drakes,  Gilberts,  Harringtons,  and 
others." 

Mrs.  Anne  Mayo  Carrington  was  born  in  the  island  of 
Barbadoes  in  1712.  Her  father,  Maj.  William  Mayo  (first 
cousin  to  Dr.  William  Cabell),  was  baptized  at  Poulshot, 
Wiltshire,  England,  November  4,  1684 ;  emigrated  to  the 
Barbadoes  prior  to  1712,  where  he  married  Frances  Gould, 
the  daughter  of  Enoch  Gould,  who  was  transported  to  that 
island  for  participation  in  Monmouth's  rebellion  of  1685, 
and  sold  to  Maj.  Abell  Allen  for  a  term  of  years,  under 

1  See  Meade's  Old  Churches,  etc.,  ii.  pp.  34,  37,  38. 

2  See  The  Genesis  of  the  United  States,  pp.  774,  86G,  etc. 


THE   FOUNDER'S   CHILDREN  169 

the  decree  of  Judge  Jeffreys.  After  his  term  of  service 
he  became  a  leading  merchant  of  Bridgetown  in  that 
island. 

During  1717-1721,  William  Mayo  made  a  careful  survey, 
and  a  plat  or  map,  of  the  Barbadoes,  which  is  now  pre- 
served in  King's  College  Library.  He  came  to  Virginia 
with  his  wife  and  four  daughters  prior  to  September,  1723. 
Rented  land  from  Thomas  Randolph  in  Henrico  County,  in 
December,  1723. 

November  13,  1727,  sold  eight  negroes  to  Daniel  Stoner. 

May  21,  1728,  qualified  as  one  of  the  first  justices  for 
the  new  county  of  Goochland,  and  as  the  first  surveyor  of 
that  county  under  appointment  from  Peter  Beverley,  Esq., 
surveyor-general  of  the  colony. 

In  the  spring  and  fall  of  1729,  he  was  one  of  the  sur- 
veyors on  the  part  of  Virginia  in  running  the  dividing  line 
between  that  State  and  North  Carolina.  On  October  22, 
Mayo's  River  was  named  for  him.  He  is  frequently  men- 
tioned in  Col.  William  Byrd's  "  History  of  the  Dividing 
Line." 

He  was  appointed  major  in  1730. 

In  1731,  he  ran  the  line  between  Goochland  and  Han- 
over ;  this  was  before  Louisa  County  was  formed,  and  the 
line  extended  beyond  the  inhabited  parts  towards  the  Blue 
Ridge  Mountains. 

June  15,  1731,  WilHam  Mayo,  Gentleman,  of  Goochland 
County,  conveyed  to  William  Randolph,  son  and  heir  of 
Thomas  Randolph,  late  of  said  county,  Gent.,  deceased, 
1600  acres  land  on  south  side  of  James  River.  His  first 
wife  was  then  dead.  In  August,  1731,  he  wrote  to  Miss 
Ann  Perratt  of  Barbadoes  to  come  to  Virgmia  and  marry 
him  (see  his  letter  in  Maxwell's  "  Virginia  Historical  Regis- 
ter," vol.  iv.  pp.  84-86),  and  she  did  so. 

In  1733,  he  went  on  "  The  Journey  to  the  Land  of 
Eden  "  with  Col.  William  Byrd,  and  surveyed  for  him  his 
20,000-acre  North  Carolina  tract  of  land.  On  September 
19,  he  offered  to  lay  off  for  Col.  Byrd  the  future  cities  of 


170  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR   KIN 

Richmond  and  Petersburg  "  without  fee  or  Reward."  See 
Byrd's  account  of  this  "  Journey." 

January  17,  1736,  WilHam  Mayo,  of  Goochland,  Gent., 
conveyed  to  John  Perratt,  of  the  island  of  Barbadoes,  mer- 
chant, 2000  acres  of  land  on  the  south  side  of  James 
River,  being  part  of  3000  acres  gTanted  said  William  Mayo 
by  patent  dated  August  21,  1734.  This  was  his  second 
wife's  brother ;  he  owned  an  estate  in  Virginia  called  "  Per- 
ratt's  Nest "  prior  to  this. 

Mrs.  Mayo's  father,  Mr.  John  Perratt,  died  June  7, 1729, 
aged  74  ;  and  Mrs.  Ann  Perratt,  his  wife,  died  March  16, 
1729,  aged  63.  They  are  buried  in  the  parish  of  St.  Philip, 
Barbadoes,  under  a  monument  bearing  apparently  the  same 
arms  as  those  borne  by  Sir  John  Perrott  (natural  son  of 
Henry  VIII.),  lord  of  Carew  Castle,  lord  deputy,  lieuten- 
ant-general, and  governor  of  the  kingdom  of  Ireland,  ad- 
miral of  England,  lord  of  the  Privy  Council,  and  Knight 
of  the  Bath,  who  died  November  3,  1599.  One  of  his 
sons.  Sir  James  Perrott,  was  a  member  of  "  The  Virginia 
Company  of  London."  ^ 

In  September,  1736,  Maj.  Mayo  was  appointed  one  of 
the  surveyors  for  His  Majesty,  in  the  Northern  Neck  boun- 
dary controversy  between  Fairfax  and  the  crown.  He  was 
engaged  in  making  this  survey  in  October,  1736,  and  after. 
In  1737  (June-September),  he  "  formed  a  very  elegant  Map 
of  the  whole  Northern  Neck  by  joining  all  the  particular 
Surveys  together."  In  the  early  part  of  this  year,  1737,  he 
laid  off  Richmond,  and  made  a  survey  of  Dr.  Cabell's 
James  River  lands. 

In  1738,  Mr.  Joshua  Fry,  Maj.  Robert  Brooke,  and  Maj. 
William  Mayo  made  a  proposition  to  the  House  of  Bur- 
gesses for  making  an  exact  map  of  the  colony  of  Virginia. 

In  1739,  Mayo's  Creek,  at  the  present  Midway  Mills, 
Nelson  County,  where  he  had  a  grant  of  1400  acres  of 
land,  was  named  for  him. 

He  was  appointed  a  colonel  of  Goochland  militia  in  1740. 

^  See  The  Genesis  of  the  United  States,  p.  965. 


THE  FOUNDER'S   CHILDREN  171 

The  last  entry  for  new  land  made  with  him  as  surveyor 
was  dated  October  17,  1744.  It  was  the  1240th  entry  in 
Goochland  County. 

His  will,  dated  Februa'^'?;  nt!,  was  recorded  November  20, 
1744.  He  is  said  to  have  died  at  Richmond,  Va.,  October 
20,  1744.  His  widow,  "Madame  Anne  Mayo,"  died  in 
1773.  "  He  patented  about  30,000  acres  of  land,  and 
lived  on  Fine  Creek  in  the  present  county  of  Powhatan." 

V.  Col.  Nicholas^  and  Hannah  Carrington  Cabell  had 
issue :  — 

27.  i.  William  ^ 

28.  ii.  George  ^ 

29.  iii.  Elizabeth  ^ 

30.  iv.  Joseph  C.^ 

31.  V.  Nicholas  ^ 

32.  vi.  Mary  Anne  ^. 

vii.  Mayo  Carrington,  b.  August  25,  1784 ;  d.  Septem- 
ber 21,  1784. 
viii.  Hannah,   b.   March   27,    1786;    d.   September   7, 
1794. 
ix.  Heningham,  b.  November  16,  1787 ;  d.  Septem- 
ber 8,  1794. 
X.  Paul  C,  b.  May  8,  1791 ;  d.  June  23,  1791. 


PART  IV. 

THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN  AND  THOSE 
ALLIED  TO  THEM  BY  MARRIAGE,  WITH  SOME 
HISTORICAL  DATA,  MAINLY  OF  THE  REVO- 
LUTIONARY PERIOD,  AND  A  GOOD  DEAL  OF 
VIRGINIA  AND  KENTUCKY  BIOGRAPHY  AND 
GENEALOGY,  ENDING  WITH  THE  DEATH  OF 
MRS.  ATTORNEY-GENERAL  BRECKINRIDGE,  OF 
KENTUCKY,  IN  HER  NINETIETH  YEAR,  THE 
LAST  SURVIVING  GRANDCHILD,  IN  1858. 

"  Family  history  is  a  subject  of  surpassing  interest.  Now  that  men  have  come  to 
know  that  genealogy  is  a  branch  of  science  which,  if  rationally  pursued,  will  be  pro- 
ductive of  important  knowledge,  it  is  ceasing  to  be  degraded  by  being  a  mere  slave 
to  those  who  possess  rank  and  title."  —  Athen^um,  September  29,  1888. 

I.   MARY  2  CABELL  HORSLEY'S   CHILDREN. 

6.  William^  Horsley,  hovn  about  1745;  married  prior 
to  January  13,  1768,  Martha,  daughter  of  Col.  William 
Megginsoii,  of  "  Clover  Plains."  He  was  one  of  his  majes- 
ty's justices  from  Amherst  from  1770  to  1775,  and  one  of 
the  justices  under  the  commonwealth  from  1776 ;  and  a 
lieutenant  in  the  Revolution,  1778  to  1781,  inclusive. 

"  May  25th  1779.  Delivered  Wm.  Horsley  the  Acts  of 
the  last  session  of  the  General  Assembly." 

"  April  25,  1780.  Delivered  Wm.  Horsley  a  patent  for 
1575  acres  of  land  which  was  granted  to  my  father  for  the 
land  whereon  his  brothers  and  himself  now  reside.  Also 
my  father's  deed  to  them  for  the  same." 

"  Feby  15th  1781.  Dehvered  Wm.  Horsley  his  4  grants, 
to  wit :  300,  275,  245  and  250  acres."  (William  Cabell's 
Diary.)  Grants  for  military  service,  I  suppose.  He  resided 
on  the  farm  above  "  Centre  Hill,"  near  the  present  Glad- 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        173 

stone  station.  Was  sheriff  of  Amherst  in  1788.  His  will, 
dated  April  15,  1791,  was  proved  September  5,  1791.  His 
wife  survived  him  only  a  few  years.  Her  father,  William 
Megginson,  was  a  justice  of  the  peace  of  Goochland,  1741 ; 
a  captain  prior  to  1743,  when  he  "  laid  the  levies  "  in  the 
upper  part  of  St.  Anne's  Parish ;  was,  after,  a  justice  of  the 
peace  for  Albemarle.  He  purchased  580  acres  from  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  Cabell  in  1739,  on  the  south  side  of  James  River 
at  Greenway  station,  to  which  he  afterwards  added  over 
2000  acres,  and  called  the  estate  "  Clover  Plains."  After 
1761,  his  lands  were  in  Buckingham  County.  His  wife, 
Martha,  was  a  daughter  of  John  Goode,  of  "  Falls  Planta- 
tion," Chesterfield  County,  Va.,  who  was  born  about  1675, 
at  "Whitby,"  and  killed  by  Indians  about  1725.  His 
father,  John  Goode  the  emigrant,  was  born  in  Cornwall, 
England,  emigrated  to  the  Barbadoes,  and  from  thence  to 
Virginia,  prior  to  1660.  His  memory  has  been  preserved 
by  Dr.  G.  Brown  Goode  in  his  "  Virginia  Cousins,"  pp.  24, 
27-37,  etc. 

6.  William  ^    and    Martha     Megginson     Horsley    had 

WilHam  *. 
Mary  \ 

Joseph,  never  married. 
Judith,  never  married. 
Robert  \ 

Martha,  m.  Richard  Phillips,  Esq. ;  d.  s.  p. 
Samuel  Cabell  '^. 
viii.  Elizabeth,  died  young. 
37.     ix.  John*. 

X.  Nicholas,  m.  Miss  Scott,  of  Kentucky;  d.  s.  p. 
His  widow  m.  (2d)  United  States  Senator  Bibb, 
of  Kentucky. 

7.  Robert  ^  Horsley,  baptized  by  his  godfather,  Rev.  Rob- 
ert Rose,  March  27,  1749 ;  married,  August  22,  1771,  at 
"  Winton,"  Miss  Judith  Scott ;  resided  at  "  Centre  Hill ;  "  a 
lieutenant  in  Revolution  in  1778  ;  died  in  June,  1786,  s.  p. 


issue 

:  — 

33. 

i. 

34. 

ii. 

iii. 

iv. 

35. 

V. 

vi. 

36. 

vii. 

174  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

8.  Elizabeth  ^  Horsley,  born  March  22,  1749 ;  baptized 
five  days  thereafter  by  the  Rev.  Robert  Rose  ;  married, 
prior  to  September  2,  1768,  at  "  Union  Hill,"  to  Roderick 
McCalloeh,  Esq.  "  She  was  prepossessing  in  person  and 
manners,  and  domestic  in  her  habits.  Her  health  declined 
some  years  before  her  death,  and  she  became  subject  to 
severe  attacks.  On  April  7,  1821,  while  sitting  at  the 
dinner-table,  she  swooned,  and  in  less  than  five  minutes  was 
dead." 

Roderick  McCulloch,  her  husband,  was  born  November 
6,  1741  (0.  S.),  in  Westmoreland  County,  Va. ;  "  educated 
at  a  school  in  Rockfish  Gap  and  elsewhere  in  Va."  In 
1768,  he  was  a  tutor  in  the  family  of  Col.  William  Cabell, 
Sr.,  of  "  Union  Hill,"  and  Miss  Horsley  is  said  to  have 
been  at  one  time  one  of  his  scholars.  From  1770  to  1775, 
one  of  his  majesty's  justices  for  Amherst ;  and  from  1776 
he  held  the  same  office  for  many  years  under  the  common- 
wealth. In  1772,  he  was  a  churchwarden,  and  was  long  a 
vestryman. 

July  15,  1775,  he  subscribed  to  the  patriotic  fund  for  the 
use  of  the  delesfates,  and  for  the  aid  of  the  Bostonians.  He 
was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolution,  sheriff  of  Amherst  in  1783- 
1784,  vestryman  of  Lexington  Parish,  1785-1809  (before 
and  after),  and  a  lay  delegate,  in  1786,  to  the  Episcopal 
convention  from  his  parish. 

After  his  marriage,  he  settled  on  his  wife's  farm,  which 
they  sold  during  the  Revolution  for  continental  money, 
ultimately  of  no  value.  He  afterwards  bought  the  "  Ver- 
dant Vale  "  estate,  on  James  River,  a  little  below  Waugh's 
Ferry,  in  Amherst  County,  a  valuable  property,  first  owned 
by  Capt.  Cornelius  Thomas. 

Notwithstanding  his  Revolutionary  losses,  his  own  and 
his  wife's  estate  afforded  ample  support,  and,  being  neither 
ambitious  nor  covetous,  he  was  content.  Loving  home  and 
domestic  life,  he  accepted  no  offices  which  duty  did  not 
force  upon  him.  He  supplied  himself  with  the  best  authors 
of  the  period.     He  was  a  fine  scholar,  with  high  literary 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        175 

culture  and  strong  religious  feelings;  lofty  ideas  of  the 
principles  and  duties  of  life ;  pure  and  refined  in  every  sen- 
timent, he  devoted  himself  much  to  the  society  and  cultiva- 
tion of  his  children,  and  "  they  remembered  him  as  superior 
to  all  the  world."  His  descendants  cherish  many  lessons 
and  memories  handed  down  to  them  about  him. 

Late  in  life,  about  1819  or  1820,  he  had  the  misfortune 
to  have  his  dwelling  burned,  with  all  the  valuables,  papers, 
family  records,  etc.,  and  his  wife  and  self  passed  the  remain- 
der of  their  days  with  their  daughter,  Isabella  Waugh,  on 
an  adjoining  farm.  He  died  November  1,  1826,  and  was 
buried  by  the  side  of  his  wife  in  the  family  burying-ground 
at  "  Verdant  Vale." 

He  was  the  son  of  Rev.  David  McCuUoch,  of  Scotland, 
who  was  educated  at  Cambridge,  England,  emigrated  to 
Virginia,  and  became  the  minister  of  Round  Hill  Church, 
Washington  Parish,  Westmoreland  County,  Va.  He  was 
related  to  Elizabeth  McCulloch,  who  married  Thomas  Scott, 
Esq.,  brother  of  Sir  Walter  Scott,  Bart.,  of  Abbotsford. 

8.  Elizabeth  ^  Horsley  and  Roderick  McCulloch  had 
issue  :  — 

38.  i.  Mary^ 

39.  ii.  Elizabeth*. 

iii.  Belinda,  b.  June  21,   1775 ;    m.   James  Waugh, 

Esq.,  and  died  in  1817,  s.  p. 
iv.  Roderick,  b.  October  20,   1777 ;  a  lawyer ;   d.  a 

young  man,  unmarried. 

40.  V.  Frances  ■*. 

41.  vi.  Isabella  *. 

vii.  Robert  Horsley,  b.  May  1,  1786 ;  served  in  War 
of  1812 ;  moved  to  Callaway  County,  Mo.,  in 
1834 ;  d.  October  9,  1839,  unmarried. 

42.  viii.  Nancy  Ellis  \ 

43.  ix.  William  H.^ 

9.  John  ^  Horsley  was  baptized  December  15,  1752,  by 
Rev.  Robert  Rose.  His  brother  Robert  and  himself  were 
witnesses  to  their  grandfather  Cabell's   will,   January   3, 


176  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

1769,  and  it  was  proved  by  his  oath  June  6,  1774.  He 
was  a  private  in  Capt.  Nicholas  Cabell's  company  of  minute- 
men  in  1775,  and  a  sergeant  in  1776 ;  a  heutenant  of  mili- 
tia in  1778,  and  a  heutenant  in  the  army  in  1781.  He 
resided  on  the  estate  below  "  Centre  Hill,"  which  embraced 
the  present  Bolton  station,  C.  &  0.  R.  R.,  and  owned  lands 
there  on  both  sides  of  James  River.  By  Act  of  November 
10,  1792,  the  town  of  Diuguidsville  (now  Bent  Creek)  was 
established  on  his  land.  His  will,  dated  October  22,  1804, 
was  probated  September  19,  1808.  He  married,  about 
1780,  Miss  Fanny  Starke,  and  had  issue  four :  — 

44.  i.  Jane^ 

45.  ii.  John^ 

iii.  Hector  *,  M.  D.,  never  married, 
iv.  EHzabeth^,  died  young. 

II.   COL.   WILLIAM  2  CABELL'S  CHILDREN. 

10.  Col.  Samuel  Jordan  ^  Cabell,  of  Soldier's  Joy,  Nel- 
son County,  Va.,  was  born  December  15,  1756.  Began 
going  to  school  at  an  early  age,  as  was  then  the  custom. 
In  December,  1765,  "  Sam  and  Wilham  came  home  from 
school."  I  do  not  know  what  school.  Sam  had  broken 
his  arm  in  some  way,  and  was  taken  to  his  grandfather's  to 
have  the  member  attended  to.  In  1768,  he  was  going  to 
school  to  Roderick  McCulloch,  and  in  1769,  to  William 
Cheeke,  the  parish  clerk.  In  1768,  his  father  wrote  to  his 
commission  merchant  in  England  about  employing  a  tutor 
there  for  his  sons,  and  in  1770,  he  procured  from  a  friend 
in  England  an  estimate  of  the  expenses,  etc.,  at  sundry 
schools,  and  was  advised  to  send  his  son  either  to  Eton  or 
Westminster.  But  the  times  were  becoming  unsettled; 
Col.  Cabell's  sympathies  were  with  the  colonies ;  so  his 
plans  for  educating  his  sons  in  England  were  finally  abol- 
ished. From  1770  to  1772,  his  sons  were  sent  to  school 
at  Col.  Peter  Fontaine's,  where  they  were  also  taught  to 
dance  by  Mrs.  Lewis. 

"  March  15th  1770,  carried  my  two  sons  [Samuel  and 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN         177 

William]  to  Col.  Peter  Fontaine's  to  school,  and  am  to  pay 
him  at  the  rate  of  <£20  per  annum  for  each  'till  Christmas. 
Also  for  lodging  and  mending  whatever  shall  be  thought 
reasonable." 

In  1772,  1773,  1774,  and  1775,  Sam  was  a  student  at 
William  and  Mary  College. 

On  November  17,  1775,  there  was  an  engagement  near 
Norfolk  between  Dunmore's  forces  and  a  body  of  Prince 
Anne  County  militia,  being  the  occasion  of  the  first  Revo- 
lutionary bloodshed  in  Virginia.  On  December  9,  the  bat- 
tle of  the  Great  Bridge  was  fought.  Col.  WilHam  Cabell 
was  then  attending  the  Committee  of  Safety  and  Conven- 
tion in  Williamsburg,  and  he  at  once  sent  his  son  Sam 
home  (from  college),  where  he  arrived  about  December  13. 
The  Convention  adjourned  January  20,  1776  ;  Col.  William 
Cabell  left  the  Committee  of  Safety  January  25,  and  got 
home  January  28.  The  convention  had  passed  "An  ordi- 
nance for  raisino^  an  additional  number  of  forces  for  the 
defence  and  protection  of  this  colony."  ^  Under  which 
Amherst  County  was  required  to  furnish  "  one  company  of 
expert  riflemen,"  consisting  of  one  captain,  two  lieutenants, 
one  ensign,  four  sergeants,  one  drummer,  one  fif er,  and  sixty- 
eight  rank  and  file.  The  captain  had  to  recruit  twenty- 
eight  men ;  the  first  lieutenant,  twenty-one  men ;  the  sec- 
ond lieutenant,  sixteen,  and  the  ensign,  nine  men,  before 
the  last  day  of  February,  under  the  penalty  of  running  the 
risk  of  losing  their  commissions ;  and  the  company  had  to  be 
completed  and  ready  for  marching  orders  by  March  25, 1776. 

On  February  5,  the  county  committee  selected  Samuel 
Jordan  Cabell  for  captain  ;  Alexander  Rose,  first  heutenant ; 
Benjamin  Taliaferro,  second  heutenant,  and  James  Barnett, 
ensign ;  and  they  immediately  went  to  work  to  recruit  their 
quota  of  men. 

Col.  John  Rose  and  Mr.  Lucas  Powell  were  the  members 
of  the  county  committee  selected  "  to  review  the  men  to  be 
enhsted,"  to  examine  them  to  see  if  they  were  healthy, 

1  See  Hening's  Statutes  at  Large,  ix.  pp.  75-92. 


1Y8  THE   CABELLS  AND   THEIR   KIN 

"  had  been  regularly  sworn  and  attested  according  to  the 
directions  of  the  ordinance,"  etc.  As  soon  as  received,  the 
recruit  was  paid  £1  out  of  the  fund  for  the  recruiting  ser- 
vice. 

"Feb'y  26th  1776.  Paid  Mr.  Ben.  Taliaferro  <£8,  and 
Mr.  Alexr  Rose  £7  for  the  recruiting  service  in  presence 
of  Col.  Rose  and  Mr.  Lucas  Powell,  which  was  in  their 
and  my  presence  paid  fifteen  soldiers,  who  were  regularly 
enlisted,  received  and  passed  by  them."     (Diary.) 

The  company  was  duly  completed,  and,  on  March  4,  the 
officers  were  commissioned,  and  the  company  was  received 
into  the  service  by  the  county  committee. 

"  March  4th  1776.  Capt.  Saml.  Cabell,  Lieut.  Alexander 
Rose  [son  of  Col.  John  Rose],  Lieut.  Ben  Taliaferro  [son 
of  Zacharias  Taliaferro],  and  Ensign  James  Barnett  pur- 
chased Matthew  Snooks,  a  servant  of  Gabriel  Penn  for  a 
fif er,  for  whom  they  gave  .£20  —  and  Mr.  Penn  is  to  give 
up  his  indenture  to  them.  They  enter  him  in  the  service 
and  receive  his  wages  among  them.  I  paid  £5  for  Saml. 
J.  Cabell ;  £5  for  Alexr.  Rose,  and  £5  for  Ben.  Taliaferro, 
which  they  are  to  repay  me  —  and  James  Barnett  paid  £5." 
(Col.  William  Cabell's  Diary.) 

As  Snooks  was  afterwards  appointed  fife-major  of  the  6th 
Virginia  Regiment,  and  his  wages  amounted  to  about  £30 
per  annum,  the  investment  was  not  a  bad  one. 

"  The  Company  rendezvoused  at  Key's  old  church,"  now 
known  as  Fairmount  Church,  in  the  present  county  of  Nel- 
son. On  March  12,  they  began  the  march  for  Williams- 
burg. 

"  March  24th.  Capt.  Cabell  arrived  in  Williamsburg  with 
his  company  after  a  march  of  tw6lve  days.     All  well." 

The  rifle  companies  were  "  allotted  two  to  each  regi- 
ment, to  be  employed  as  light  infantry."  Capt.  Cabell  was 
assigned  to  the  6th  Virginia  Regiment.  Each  man  was 
armed  with  "  one  good  rifle  and  a  tomahawk."  When  these 
were  furnished  by  the  soldier  himself,  he  was  allowed  "  20 
shillings  by  the  year,  at  the  expense  of  the  publick."     The 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        179 

officers  wore  hunting-shirts,  short  and  fringed ;  sergeants, 
ditto,  short  and  ^;^ai?i,  with  a  small  white  cuff ;  drummers 
and  lifers,  with  a  dark  cuff,  and  privates,  without  cuffs. 
These  shirts  cost  12s.  6d.  each.  Both  officers  and  men 
wore  hats  "  cut  round  and  bound  with  black,  with  brims 
two  inches  deep,  cocked  on  one  side,  with  a  button,  loop, 
and  cockade  worn  on  the  left."  They  were  required  "  to 
wear  their  hair  short  and  as  near  alike  as  possible." 

The  field  officers  of  the  6th  Regiment  were  :  colonel, 
Mordecai  Buckner ;  lieutenant-colonel,  Thomas  Elliot ;  and 
major,  James  Hendricks.  The  regiment  was  attached  to 
the  brigade  of  Brig.-Gen.  Andrew  Lewis,  which  remained 
in  the  region  round  about  Williamsburg  for  some  time. 
The  remaining  officers  of  the  regiment  were :  adjutant, 
Simon  Summers ;  surgeon,  Robert  Rose ;  chaplain.  Rev. 
William  Dunlap ;  captains,  Nathaniel  Fox  [vice  Thomas 
Ruffin,  died  April  11,  1776],  Nicholas  Hobson  [vice  Capt. 
Gregory,  died  June  19,  1776],  Samuel  J.  Cabell,  Samuel 
Hopkins,  Thomas  Patterson,  James  Johnson,  Oliver  Towles, 
Thomas  Massie,  Thomas  Ilutchins,  and  John  Jones ;  ser- 
geant-major, James  Dillard,  Jr.  (of  Capt.  Cabell's  company) ; 
William  Croker,  drum-major;  Matthew  Snooks  (of  Capt. 
Cabell's  company),  fife-major ;  and  John  Hawkins,  sutler. 

"  General  Orders.  WilHamsburg.  March  27th.  Capt. 
Cabell's  Comp'y  to  draw  Ammunition  to-day  for  the  trial  of 
their  rifles  to-morrow  between  the  hours  of  8  and  10  in  the 
forenoon ;  the  men  are  to  provide  a  target  to-day." 

"  Officer  for  the  day,  to-morrow.  Captain  Cabell." 

Col.  William  Cabell  was  then  in  Williamsburg,  attending 
the  Committee  of  Safety,  and  the  following  extracts  are 
from  his  diary  :  — 

"  March  27.  Paid  Dixon  and  Hunter  £1  3s.  3d.  for  2 
blank  books  and  1  quire  of  paper  for  Sam.  Cabell  for  the 
use  of  his  Company  —  which  was  allowed  him  by  the  Com- 
mittee of  Safety,  and  which  he  has  paid  me." 

"By  Saml  Cabell  £4  10s.  for  30  gallons  of  whisky 
found  this  company  on  their  march,  and  which  was  allowed 
him  by  the  Public  in  the  settlement  of  his  accounts." 


180  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

"  March  30.  Reed,  a  warrant  from  Com.  of  Safety  for 
£23  9s.  for  Wm.  Pollard  for  469  rations  furnished  the 
Amherst  Company. 

"By  do.  for  Hugh  Rose  £10  15s.  for  400  lbs.  bacon 
&  1|  barrels  of  meal  for  do. 

«  By  do.  for  394  lbs.  Flour  had  of  John  Nicholas  @  12/6 
=  £2  9.  3." 

As  Amherst  County  had  opened  the  Revolution  with 
earthquakes,  the  arrival  of  the  Amherst  company  in  Wil- 
liamsburg was  not  allowed  to  remain  long  unnoticed  by  the 
elements. 

"March  31st.  The  whole  night  one  continued  gust  of 
wind,  rain,  hail  and  almost  constant  thunder  and  light- 
ning." 

« April  12.  Paid  Saml  Jordan  Cabell  £6  7.  6.  which  I 
received  of  the  Treasurer  on  a  warrant  from  the  Committee 
of  Safety  for  nine  hunting  shirts  at  12s.  6d.  each;  and 
making  five  do.  at  3s.  each." 

On  May  15,  the  Convention  of  Virginia  passed  resolu- 
tions instructing  their  delegates  in  Congress  to  propose  to 
that  body  "  to  declare  the  United  Colonies  free  and  inde- 
pendent States." 

**  Some  gentlemen  made  a  handsome  collection  for  the 
purpose  of  treating  the  soldiery,  who  next  day  [May  16] 
were  paraded  in  Waller's  Grove,  before  Brigadier-General 
Lewis,  attended  by  the  gentlemen  of  the  Committee  of 
Safety,  the  members  of  the  General  Convention,  etc.  The 
resolutions  being  read  aloud  to  the  army,  the  following 
toasts  were  given,  each  of  them  accompanied  by  a  discharge 
of  the  artillery  and  small  arms,  and  the  acclamations  of  all 
present :  — 

"  1.    The  American  Independent  States. 

"  2.  The  Grand  Congress  of  the  United  States  and  their 
respective  Legislatures. 

"  3.  General  Washington  and  victory  to  the  American 
arms. 

"  The  Union  Flag  of  the  American  States  waved  upon 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        181 

the  Capitol  during  the  whole  of  this  ceremony ;  which  being 
ended  the  Soldiers  partook  of  the  refreshments  prepared 
for  them  by  the  affection  of  their  countrymen,  and  the 
evening  concluded  with  illuminations  and  other  demonstra- 
tions of  joy ;  every  one  seeming  pleased  that  the  domina- 
tion of  Great  Britain  was  now  at  an  end,  so  wickedly  and 
tyrannically  exercised  for  these  twelve  or  thirteen  years 
past,  notwithstanding  our  repeated  prayers  and  remon- 
strances for  redress."  ^ 

On  June  11,  Col.  William  Cabell  paid  James  Geddy  of 
Williamsburg  for  Capt.  Samuel  Cabell's  sword. 

June  12,  the  Declaration  of  Rights  passed  the  Virginia 
Convention. 

"June  29.  Paid  Capt.  Sam.  Cabell  £32  17s.  which  I 
rec'd  of  the  Treasurer  for  him  to  pay  his  company  for  the 
time  they  furnished  themselves  with  provisions." 

On  the  same  day,  "  The  Constitution  or  plan  of  govern- 
ment "  passed  the  Virginia  Convention  by  an  unanimous 
vote,  and  Patrick  Henry  was  elected  the  first  Republican 
governor  in  America  of  an  independent  State. 

"  July  2nd.  Paid  Saml  Cabell  £11,  which  I  received 
of  Col.  Weedon  on  account  of  Brig-r-General  Mercer." 

"July  4:th.  Delivered  Saml  Cabell,  Alexr  Rose,  Ben 
Taliaferro,  and  James  Barnett  (officers  of  the  Amherst  Com- 
pany) warrants  on  the  Treasurer  for  £4  10s.  each,  allowed 
for  one  tent,  each." 

Since  the  first  part  of  June  (while  these  things  were 
going  on  in  Williamsburg),  Dunmore  with  his  forces  and 
fleet  had  been  at  Gwynn's  Island,  about  thirty  miles  away, 
threatening  invasion.  On  the  evening  of  July  8,  Gen.  An- 
drew Lewis,  at  the  head  of  his  forces,  arrived  before  this 
island ;  erected  a  battery  that  night,  and  drove  Dunmore 
away  the  next  day.  I  suppose  that  Capt.  Cabell's  company 
was  in  this  action,  but  I  do  not  know. 

"  On  July  25th  the  Declaration  of  Independence  was 
proclaimed  to  the  rejoicing  troops  at  Williamsburg." 

1  Extract  from  Williamsburg  Gazette,  May  17,  1776. 


182  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

Soon  after  this,  the  6th  Virginia  was  ordered  north, 
marching  through  Virginia  by  Fredericksburg  and  the 
Northern  Neck,  through  the  upper  part  of  Maryland  into 
Pennsylvania  by  Lancaster,  leaving  Philadelphia  to  the 
right,  crossed  the  Delaware  River  above  Trenton,  and 
through  Jersey  to  Perth  Amboy,  where  the  regiment  was 
posted  to  defend  that  point  until  further  orders. 

I  have  not  the  particulars  of  Capt.  Cabell's  various  sei- 
vices ;  I  only  know  that  he  fought  at  Trenton  and  at 
Princeton,  and  that  his  command  did  their  duty  in  both 
battles.  He  was  at  home  on  furlough,  February  17  to 
March  11,  1777. 

During  the  retreat  of  Gates  before  Burgoyne,  his  army 
was  greatly  distressed  by  the  Indians  with  the  British,  who 
hung  upon  the  flanks  and  excited  great  alarm  by  their 
merciless  cruelty.  Washington,  aware  of  the  disadvantage 
under  which  the  militia  lay  in  their  apprehension  from  this 
cause,  on  the  20th  of  August,  1777,  dispatched  Col.  Daniel 
Morgan  to  the  assistance  of  Gates,  with  a  corps  of  500 
riflemen,  which  had  been  selected  from  his  entire  army  for 
their  proficiency  in  the  use  of  the  rifle  and  the  Indian  mode 
of  warfare.  They  arrived  on  the  23d  of  August,  and 
Gates  thanked  Washington  warmly  for  this  valuable  assist- 
ance, and  for  his  advice  concerning  the  use  to  be  made  of 
them. 

Col.  Morgan,  with  his  rifle  corps,  supported  by  Maj. 
Dearborn's  light  infantry,  opened  the  battle  of  September 
19.  In  his  report  to  Congress,  Gates  accorded  the  glory  of 
this  action  entirely  to  the  valor  of  the  light  infantry  and 
Morgan's  riflemen. 

October  6.  Adjutant  Wilkinson  reported  to  Gates  that 
the  enemy  were  disposed  to  offer  battle.  "  Well,  then," 
said  Gates,  "  order  on  Morgan  to  begin  the  game."  In  his 
report  to  Congress  on  the  12th,  Gates,  while  commending 
all  of  the  troops  engaged  for  their  spirit,  again  gave  espe- 
cial praise  to  Morgan's  riflemen. 

On  October  16,  Burgoyne  surrendered.     This  series  of 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        183 

engagements,  known  as  the  battle  of  Saratoga,  has  been 
styled  one  of  the  fifteen  decisive  battles  of  the  world.  How 
many  are  there  now  living  among  the  Cabells  and  their 
kin  who  know  that  the  first  company  in  this  famous  corps 
d'elite,  so  distinguished  in  this  celebrated  battle,  was  raised 
in  old  Amherst  and  commanded  by  Capt.  Samuel  Jordan 
Cabell,  who  was  not  then  twenty-one  years  of  age?  He 
was  promoted  major  for  his  gallant  services  at  this  time. 
Some  of  the  acts  of  Dan  Morgan's  men  are  given  in  Max- 
well's "  Virginia  Historical  Register,"  vol.  vi.  p.  210.  It 
would  be  interestino-  to  know  that  Gen.  Fraser  was  killed 
by  one  of  Capt.  Cabell's  riflemen. 

Morgan,  with  his  rifle  corps,  returned  to  Washington's 
army  prior  to  November  24,  1777  ;  and  in  December  went 
into  winter-quarters  at  Valley  Forge. 

Joseph  Newman  (who  had  served  at  Braddock's  defeat), 
a  member  of  the  Amherst  Rifles,  was  at  home  on  furlough 
in  the  spring  of  1778 ;  and  when  he  returned,  on  April  18, 
Col.  Cabell  sent  by  him  several  articles  of  clothing  to  his 
son  Sam.  On  June  10,  he  again  sent  clothes  and  money 
by  John  Howard  to  Maj.  Samuel  Cabell. 

Maj.  Cabell  served  in  Washington's  army  (at  Monmouth, 
I  suppose,  and  elsewhere)  during  the  campaign  of  1778. 
He  was  at  home  on  furlough  a  second  time  in  February, 
1779. 

"  Feby  24th.  Major  Saml  Cabell  set  off  on  his  way  to 
the  northward  to  join  the  continental  army.  Exchanged 
horses  with  Major  Cabell  and  gave  him  seven  hundred 
dollars."     (Col.  WilUam  Cabell's  Diary.) 

He  served  in  Washington's  army  during  the  campaign  of 
1779,  and  was  promoted  lieutenant-colonel  prior  to  Novem- 
ber. From  a  reference  to  him  in  Jefferson's  correspondence 
(vol.  i.  p.  170),  I  infer  that  he  was  with  one  of  the  conti- 
nental regiments,  commanded  by  Lord  Stirling. 

He  was  with  the  Virginia  troops,  under  Brig.-Gen.  Wood- 
ford, who  entered  Charleston,  S.  C,  on  April  7,  1780, 
after  a  forced  march  of  500  miles  in  thirty  days. 


184  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

When  Col.  William  Cabell  learned  of  this  march  to  the 
southward,  on  March  9,  he  "sent  by  Isham  Valentine,  a 
free  negro,  1  pair  silver  mounted  pistols  and  bullet  moulds 
to  Col.  Sam'l  J.  Cabell,  also,  one  blue  broad  cloth  coat,  one 
white  do.  vest  and  pr  breeches  with  silver  oval  buttons,  one 
pair  musketo  curtains,  seven  shirts  (5  of  which  ruffled  at 
the  hands),  2  pr  sheets,  4  towels,  white  Jeans  to  make  him 
2  vests  and  2  pr  breeches,  5  bands,  6  pr  thread  stockings 
and  4  pocket  handkerchiefs,"  but  the  British  soon  relieved 
Col.  Sam  of  his  new  clothes. 

On  May  12,  Charleston  surrendered,  and  Col.  Samuel 
Cabell  was  taken  prisoner. 

"  Septr  24th.  Sent  by  George  Gillespie  26|  pistoles,  one 
coat,  4  shirts,  2  bands,  three  pair  silk  stockings  and  3 
pr  thread  do.  for  my  son  Sam,  to  be  delivered  to  James 
Buchanan  to  be  by  him  delivered  to  Capt.  Henry  Young 
to  be  sent  by  the  Flag.     Also,  a  letter  for  Sam." 

He  remained  a  prisoner  for  about  fourteen  months. 

"  August  15th,  1781.  Sent  Harry  to  Hanover,  with  a 
chair  and  horses  for  my  son  Sam." 

"  August  21st.  Col.  Samuel  J.  Cabell  returned  home  on 
parole  from  HaddrelFs  Point,  South  Carolina."  Having 
been  absent,  —  save  two  brief  furloughs  (one  early  in  1777, 
and  the  other  early  in  1779),  —  in  the  army  or  as  a  pris- 
oner of  war,  for  nearly  five  and  a  half  years.  He  was  not 
exchanged,  but  was  still  on  parole  when  the  war  ended. 

One  of  Col.  Sam's  old  soldiers  told  the  late  N.  F.  Cabell, 
Esq.,  that  "  he  was  an  impetuous  man  ;  that  almost  the  only 
time  he  was  really  cool  and  collected  was  when  in  battle  ; 
and  that  his  command  was  not  '  Go  on,  boys ! '  but  '  Come 
on,  boys  ! '  " 

The  following  extracts  from  Col.  William  Cabell's  diary 
will  explain  themselves  :  — 

"'  Sept.  18th  1781.  Col.  Sam.  Cabell  set  off  on  his  way  to 
Col.  John  Syme's  in  Hanover,  with  some  intention  of  pay- 
ing his  addresses  to  his  daughter  Sally.  By  whom  I  wrote 
to  Col.  Syme  a  letter  purporting  my  approbation,  in  case  he 
made  her  fortune  equal  with  his  other  children." 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        185 

"  Novr.  15th.  Samuel  Jordan  Cabell  was  married  to  Miss 
Sally  Syme." 

"  Deer.  31st.  Sam.  J.  Cabell  and  his  wife  came  home." 

"  Jan'y  1st  1782.  Mr.  Jopling's  Tumbler  [a  negro  man] 
set  off  with  my  Hemp  in  his  wagons  to  Richmond,  and 
from  thence  is  to  bring  up  Sam.  Cabell's  negroes  from  Col. 
Syme's." 

"Jan'y.  15.  Mr.  Jopling's  Tumbler  returned  with  his 
wagons  from  New  Castle  with  Sam.  Cabell's  negroes  in 
which  business  he  was  engaged  12  days  —  besides  coming 
here  and  returning  home  which  makes  2  or  3  days  more. 
He  had  two  of  my  horses.  I  am  to  settle  with  Mr.  Jopling 
for  his  services." 

"  Feb'y  15th.  Sam  and  his  wife  set  off  to  her  father's  in 
Hanover." 

Her  father,  Col.  John  Syme,  was  half  brother  to  Patrick 
Henry. 

"  Augt  16th  1783.  Agreed  with  James  Roberts  of  Gooch- 
land to  build  Saml  Cabell  a  dwelling  house,  kitchen,  smoke- 
house and  dairy,  which  he  is  to  begin  in  October  next." 

"  Dec.  22nd.  Delivered  Col.  Sam.  J.  Cabell's  warrants  for 
land  to  Mayo  Carrington  (one  for  6000  acres,  the  other  for 
1000  acres.  The  first  No.  9,  dated  30  Sept.  1782  — the 
latter  No.  1177  —  dated  25  June  1783)  in  order  to  enter 
with  the  surveyor  in  six  surveys." 

These  warrants  were  for  military  service. 

"  Feb'y  9th  1784.  Capt  John  Syme  set  off  on  his  way  to 
Rocky  Mills,  in  order  to  inform  his  father  of  an  agreement 
drawn  up,  agreeable  to  himself  and  Saml  J.  Cabell,  respect- 
ing his  sister's  fortune.  A  copy  of  which  was  dehvered  him 
and  a  letter  sent  by  him  to  Col.  Syme  respecting  the  same. 
For  which  purpose  he  came  up." 

"Feby  28th.  The  agreement  with  James  Roberts  to 
build  sundry  houses  for  Sam  Cabell,  was  signed  and  put 
into  the  hands  of  my  son  WilHam  by  mutual  consent. 

"  The  said  houses  and  every  part  thereof  shall  be  finished 
and  completed  in  a  good,  neat,  sufficient,  substantial,  and 


186  THE   CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

workmanlike  manner,  of  the  heart  of  the  pine  and  poplar, 
and  of  the  best  materials,  on  or  before  Deer.  25th  1785. 
The  said  Cabell  to  pay  £100  presently,  and  £535  when 
the  work  is  completed." 

At  Amherst  County  May  Court,  1784,  the  following 
minute  was  entered :  — 

"  The  United  States  Dr. 

"  To  Samuel  Jordan  Cabell  as  deputy  Adjutant  General 
for  forage  for  2  horses,  431  days  at  5  shilhngs  pr.  day  — 
it  appearing  to  the  Court  that  on  account  of  the  scarcity 
of  forage,  he  was  compelled  to  pay  exceeding  high  for  that 
article.  £107  15s. 

"May  3rd  1784." 

He  must  have  held  this  office  since  early  in  1783,  but 
how  long  he  held  it,  I  do  not  know. 

June  7,  1784,  he  was  recommended  by  the  county  court 
to  the  governor  of  Virginia  as  a  proper  person  to  execute 
the  office  of  county-lieutenant.  He  was  appointed,  but  how 
long  he  held  the  office,  I  do  not  know. 

"  April  4th  1785.  Hugh  Rose  and  Saml.  J.  Cabell  elected 
Delegates  for  Amherst  County."  He  may  have  served  as  a 
delegate  before  this.  He  certainly  continued  to  serve  as 
such  until  1795. 

"  July  7th  1785.  Saml.  J.  Cabell  set  off  on  his  way  to 
the  Sweet  Springs."  His  constitution  had  been  undermined 
by  his  treatment  while  a  prisoner  at  Haddrell's  Point,  S.  C, 
and  his  health  continued  precarious  for  many  years.  His 
house  was  completed  before  the  appointed  time. 

"  Oct.  1st  1785.  My  son  Sam  and  his  wife  went  home  " 
to  his  residence,  which  he  named  "  Soldier's  Joy."  They 
had  been  living  with  his  father,  at  "  Union  Hill,"  since 
December  31,  1781. 

At  the  fall  session  of  the  General  Assembly,  in  1785,  an 
act  was  passed  for  establishing  the  town  of  Cabellsburg 
(now  New  Glasgow)  in  Amherst  County,  with  Col.  Samuel 
Cabell  as  one  of  the  trustees. 

"  July  1st  1787.  Delivered  Sam.  J.  Cabell  his  certificates 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN         187 

for  his  commutation  which  I  received  of  Thomas  Prosser." 
(Col.  William  Cabell's  Diary.) 

March  3, 1788,  his  father  and  himself  were  nearly  unani- 
mously elected  members  of  the  Convention  of  1788.  After 
the  election  they  treated  the  voters  at  Lucas  Powell's  ordi-  '^ 
nary  to  ninety-eight  gallons  of  toddy  and  ten  gallons  of  rum. 
In  this  Convention,  he  acted  throughout  with  his  father  (the 
sketch  of  whom,  see). 

"  May  1st  1791.  My  son  Sam  sent  me  some  Ice  from  his 
ice-house,  of  which  I  had  a  Bowl  of  Punch.  The  first  Ice- 
punch  I  ever  drank." 

"  Feb'y  13th  1793.  My  son  Hector  and  others  set  off 
with  Capt.  John  Syme's  corpse  to  New  Castle  —  who  de- 
parted this  life  at  my  son  Sam  Cabell's  on  the  night  of  the 
10th  inst.,  after  a  very  short  illness." 

In  1795,  Col.  Samuel  J.  Cabell  was  elected  from  this 
congressional  district  to  the  United  States  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives, which  he  continued  to  represent  until  1803.  He 
was  a  Republican  in  politics,  —  an  ardent,  really  an  impetu- 
ous follower  of  Jefferson,  —  a  firm  believer  that  "  the  Fed- 
eralists" were  always  wrong,  and  "the  Republicans"  always 
right. 

It  was  long  a  custom  for  the  representatives  of  the 
county  in  the  United  States  Congress  and  Virginia  Assem- 
bly to  send  circular  letters  relating  to  the  politics,  the  news,  \ 
etc.,  of  the  period,  with  the  current  prices  of  tobacco,  corn, 
and  wheat  in  Richmond,  to  their  constituents,  to  be  read  on 
the  court  green  at  the  monthly  courts.  I  have  many  of 
these  letters  from  Col.  Sam  and  others.  They  are  of  real 
interest  and  not  without  historic  value. 

Col.  Sam  was  long  one  of  the  justices  of  Old  Amherst, 
and  when,  in  1808,  the  county  was  divided  into  Amherst 
and  Nelson,  he  was  one  of  the  first  justices  for  Nelson. 

He  was  one  of  the  original  members  of  the  Virginia  Soci- 
ety of  the  Cincinnati. 

He  retired  from  active  politics  in  1803,  but  continued  to 
take  the  interest  of  a  good  citizen  in  public  affairs.     He 


188  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

gained  for  himself  a  remarkable  reputation  for  hospitality. 
In  1858,  the  late  Gen.  B.  W.  S.  Cabell  wrote  to  the  late  N. 
F.  Cabell  (I  have  other  letters  to  the  same  purport) :  "  I 
knew  Col.  Samuel  J.  Cabell  of  Soldier's  Joy.  He  was  a 
magnificent  man  before  the  people,  the  greatest  man  on  a 
court  green,  in  a  crowd,  or  on  the  electioneering  arena  that 
I  ever  met  with,  except,  perhaps,  John  Randolph  of  Roa- 
noke. His  people  idolized  him.  For  a  long  time  they 
regarded  him  as  next  to  Gen.  Washington.  When  in  his 
prime,  he  swayed  them  at  will,  speaking  to  a  crowd  with 
decisive  effect.  No  man  had  a  more  melting  charity,  and 
his  hospitality,  though  it  may  have  been  equalled,  was  never 
excelled." 

He  died  August  4,  1818,  at  "  Soldier's  Joy,"  and  was 
buried  there. 

His  wife,  Sarah  Syme  Cabell,  born  November  5,  1760,  at 
"  Rocky  Mills,"  in  Hanover  County,  died  May  15,  1814,  at 
"  Soldier's  Joy,"  in  Nelson  County.  Her  husband  never 
recovered  from  her  loss,  and  after  her  death  seemed  to  give 
himself  up  to  despair.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Col.  John 
Syme,  Jr.,  by  his  first  wife,  Mildred  Meriwether.  Col. 
Syme  was  born  about  1729,  married  about  1756,  was  fre- 
quently a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  from  Han- 
over, and  was  a  member  of  all  the  Revolutionary  conven- 
tions of  1774-1776. 

Gen.  William  Campbell  of  the  Revolution,  "  the  Hero  of 
King's  Mountain,"  who  married  his  half-sister,  Elizabeth 
Henry,  died  at  his  house,  at  Rocky  Mills,  on  August  22, 
1781 ;  and  Col.  Samuel  J.  Cabell,  one  of  the  heroes  of  Sar- 
atoga, married  his  daughter  there  on  November  15  follow- 
ing. 

The  date  of  the  death  of  Col.  John  Syme,  Jr.,  is  not 
known  to  me.  He  was  the  son  of  Col.  John  Syme,  Sr.,  the 
emigrant,  by  his  wife,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Mary 
(Dabney)  Winston.  Col.  Syme,  Sr.,  served  in  the  House  of 
Burgesses,  for  several  terms,  I  believe.  He  died  in  1731, 
or  early  in  1732.    His  widow  is  mentioned  by  Col.  William 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        189 

Byrd  in  bis  "  Progress  to  the  Mines "  in  October,  1732. 
Sbe  married,  secondly,  Col.  Jobn  Henry,  and  became  the 
mother  of  Patrick  Henry,  the  orator,  and  others. 

Mildred  Meriwether,  the  first  wife  of  Col.  John  Syme, 
Jr.,  born  May  19,  1739 ;  died  in  1764,  was  the  daughter  of 
Nicholas  Meriwether,  Jr.  (by  his  wife  Mildred.  She  mar- 
ried (2d)  in  1741,  Dr.  Thomas  Walker,  of  Louisa  ;  was  born 
March  19,  1721 ;  died  November  16,  1778),  whose  will  was 
dated  December  4,  1738,  not  long  before  his  death.  He 
was  a  son  of  Wilham  Meriwether  (to  whom  David  Craw- 
ford, his  grandfather,  deeded  the  "  Assasquin "  estate  in 
New  Kent  in  1693),  the  eldest  son  of  Nicholas  Meriwether, 
the  elder,  by  his  wife,  EUzabeth  Crawford.  Nicholas  Meri- 
wether, the  elder,  was  born  about  1660  ;  patented  at  various 
times  over  40,000  acres  of  land ;  on  July  9,  1730,  he 
patented  17,952  acres  extending  along  the  Chestnut  (the 
Southwest)  Mountains,  entirely  across  the  then  county  of 
Hanover,  from  the  line  of  the  then  county  of  Goochland  to 
the  line  of  the  then  county  of  Spottsylvania.  He  was  then 
styled  "  of  Hanover  County,  Gent.,"  and  this  patent  was  on 
the  frontiers  of  that  county,  which  had  been  taken  from 
New  Kent  in  1720.  He  married  about  1682,  Elizabeth 
Crawford  (daughter  of  David  Crawford,  of  New  Kent,  a 
native  of  Scotland) ;  moved  to  New  Kent  from  James  City 
County  about  1693 ;  vestryman  of  St.  Paul's  Parish  from 
1704 ;  justice  of  the  peace  and  coroner  of  New  Kent  for 
many  years ;  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses,  1710- 
1714,  and  probably  before  and  after.  His  will,  dated 
December  12,  1743 ;  witnesses  :  Peter  Jefferson,  Samuel 
Dalton,  George  Taylor,  and  Charles  Lynch,  was  proved  at 
Goochland  County  court,  November  20,  1744.  During  his 
long  life  he  had  accumulated  a  vast  property ;  but  when  he 
came  to  die  it  was  a  case  of  long  division  between  his 
numerous  descendants.  He  left  Mildred,  the  daughter  of 
his  grandson,  Nicholas  Meriwether,  deceased  (the  only  great- 
grandchild mentioned  in  his  will),  one  negro  girl.  He  was 
probably  the  son  of  Nicholas  Meriwether,  who  patented 
lands  in  Virg-inia  between  1651  and  1667. 


190  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

10.  Col  Samuel  J.^  and  Sarah  Syme  Cabell  had  issue :  — 

46.  i.  William  S.^  Cabell. 

47.  ii.  Mildred  M.*  CabeU. 

48.  iii.  Samuel  J.^  Cabell. 

49.  iv.  Pauhna  R.'  Cabell. 

50.  V.  Margaret  W.^  Cabell. 

51.  vi.  Patrick  Henry  *  Cabell. 

vii.  Nicholas  Meriwether  Cabell,  d.  s.  p. 

52.  viii.  George  W.*  CabeU. 

53.  ix.  Emeline  S."  Cabell. 

11.  Col.  William  ^  Cabell,  the  younger,  of  "  Union 
HiU,"  was  born  March  25,  1759.  From  1765  to  1772,  he 
was  educated  with  his  brother  Sam.  He  boarded  at  Mr. 
John  Nicholas'  (brother  to  the  Hon.  Robert  Carter  Nicho- 
las), and  went  to  school  to  Mr.  John  Johnston  from  May 
17,  1772,  until  the  death  of  Mr.  Johnston  in  August,  1773. 

In  the  spring  of  1774,  William  Fontaine,  the  son  of  Col. 
Peter  Fontaine,  commenced  teaching  at  "  Union  Hill,"  and 
taught  Col.  Cabell's  children,  his  brother,  James  Fontaine, 
John  Nicholas,  Jr.,  and  one  of  Col.  James  Nevil's  sons. 

It  seems  well  to  say  here  that  the  custom  with  the  landed 
gentry  of  this  region  with  their  minor  children,  before  the 
Revolution,  was  this  :  First  one  and  then  another  of  a  circle 
of  friends  would  employ  a  tutor,  and  take  the  young  sons 
of  the  others  as  boarders.  Thus,  in  1768-1769,  the  tutor 
was  at  "  Union  Hill ; "  in  1770-1771,  at  Col.  Peter  Fon- 
taine's ;  in  1772-1773,  at  Col.  John  Nicholas'  ;  in  1774- 
1775,  again  at  "  Union  Hill."  From  these  private  tutors, 
or  from  such  classical  schools  as  those  of  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Maury  or  the  Rev.  Mr.  Douglas,  the  boys  were  sent  to  Wil- 
liam and  Mary  College,  or  to  England,  or  to  Scotland,  to 
complete  their  education. 

There  were  also  teachers  of  music,  of  dancing,  of  fen- 
cing, etc.,  who  gave  lessons  by  the  month  or  by  the  quarter. 
Most  of  the  sons  of  the  wealthier  class  received  a  classical 
and  polite  education,  and  the  daughters  were  not  neglected. 
For  people  of  moderate  means  there  were  other  grades  of 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        191 

schools,  in  some  of  which  "  schoohng  was  only  a  penny  a 
day,"  and  education  (or  rather,  the  abihty  to  read  and 
write)  was  much  more  general  than  usually  supposed.  I 
have  orders  for  entry,  or  transfer,  of  lands  from  nearly  one 
thousand  different  persons,  and  it  was  rare  indeed  that  they 
were  not  able  to  write  their  own  orders.  It  is  true  that 
some  of  the  writing  is  very  bad,  but  much  of  it  is  very 
good. 

Mr.  William  Fontaine  gave  vacation  on  April  14,  1775. 
On  May  5  following,  he  began  his  second  year,  "  and  is  to 
teach  my  children,  his  brother  James,  and  Johnny  Nicholas." 
(Col.  William  Cabell's  Diary.)  He  did  not  complete  his  sec- 
ond year,  but  gave  up  his  school  on  September  9,  1775,  in 
order  to  enter  the  army  as  captain  of  a  rifle  company. 

"  Novr  7th,  1775.  The  Rev.  Mr.  Robert  Buchan  began 
his  school  at  my  house,  and  all  my  children  are  put  under 
his  tuition.  At  the  end  of  the  year  I  am  to  pay  him  what 
I  think  his  services  deserve,  which  is  the  footing  he  chooses 
to  be  on.  His  horse  is  to  be  fed  with  mine."  (Col.  Wil- 
liam Cabell's  Diary.) 

The  Rev.  Mr.  Buchan  continued  at  "  Union  Hill "  for 
several  years.  In  1779,  he  went  to  Overwharton  Parish, 
Stafford  County,  where  he  became  a  tutor  in  the  family  of 
Travers  Daniels,  Sr.,  Esq. ;  taught  Judge  Peter  V.  Daniel, 
John  Thompson  Mason,  and  others.  He  was  still  in  this 
parish,  I  believe,  so  late  as  1802.  He  was,  I  am  quite  sure, 
nearly  related  to  Helen  Buchan,  who  married  John  Glassell 
(an  old  Fredericksburg,  Va.,  merchant),  and  whose  only 
daughter,  Johanna  Glassell,  married  John,  7th  Duke  of 
Argyle,  and  became  the  grandmother  of  the  Marquis  of 
Lome,  who  married  Princess  Louise,  the  daughter  of  Queen 
Victoria. 

William  Cabell,  Jr.,  remained  under  the  Rev.  Robert 
Buchan's  tuition  until  the  summer  of  1777.  From  August, 
1777,  to  April,  1779,  he  was  at  Hampden  Sidney  Academy, 
in  which  school  his  father  had  been  interested  since  March, 
1775.     From   May,  1779,  to  September,  1780,  he  was  a 


192  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

student  at  William  and  Mary  College,  and  while  there  he 
was  treasurer  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kcq^pa  Society. 

October  1,  1780,  he  set  off  to  Col.  Paul  Carrington's  to 
see  hi?,  fiancee,  Miss  Nancy. 

"  Novr  3rd.  My  son  William  set  off  on  his  way  to  join 
the  army  below  on  account  of  the  present  invasion." 

This  was  Gen.  Leslie's  invasion  of  October-November ; 
but  Leslie  soon  sailed  away  to  reinforce  Cornwallis  in 
South  Carolina,  and  Wilham  returned  home  in  about  two 
weeks. 

On  November  18,  he  set  off  on  his  way  to  Col.  Paul 
Carrington's  to  marry  his  daughter  Nancy.  His  marriage 
bond,  sealed  in  the  presence  of  Samuel  W.  Venable,  with 
Thomas  Read  as  his  security,  was  given  on  November  20. 
He  was  married  at  the  residence  of  the  bride's  father  in 
Charlotte  County,  the  21st  of  November,  and  came  to 
"  Union  Hill  "  with  his  wife  on  December  4.  (I  have  an 
interesting'  account  of  this  wedding:  in  a  letter  from  Col. 
S.  W.  Venable,  of  Springfield,  Prince  Edward  County,  Va., 
to  his  friend,  John  Witherspoon,  of  Philadelphia.)  On 
January  27,  1781,  they  "  began  housekeeping  for  them- 
selves "  in  the  house  that  Col.  Cabell  lived  in  before  he 
built  the  present  "  Union  Hill "  house ;  but  the  traitor 
Arnold  was  in  Virginia ;  young  William  could  not  remain 
idle  at  home.  On  January  30,  he  went  to  work  aiding 
his  father  in  the  execution  of  "  the  Act  for  supplying  the 
army  with  clothes,  provisions  and  wagons ; "  and  he  con- 
tinued to  give  his  services  to  the  cause  until  the  surrender 
of  Cornwallis. 

March  27,  Gen.  Phillips  reinforced  Arnold  at  Ports- 
mouth, and  on  May  19,  the  forces  were  joined  by  Corn- 
wallis at  Petersburg.  They  at  once  prepared  to  ravage  the 
State.  May  24,  Cornwallis  was  at  Westover ;  the  26th,  on 
his  way  to  Richmond ;  28th,  at  Bottom  Bridge ;  30th,  at 
Hanover  Court  House;  and  on  the  31st,  crossed  North 
Anna  River.  He  destroyed  all  stores,  provisions,  etc.,  as 
he  went.     He  sent  Lieut.-Col.  Simcoe  to  the  Point  of  Fork 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        193 

(Columbia)  to  destroy  the  stores  there ;  and  Tarleton  to 
Charlottesville  to  capture  the  Assembly. 

June  2.  Simcoe  marched  toward  Point  of  Fork.  Lafay- 
ette near  Spottsylvania  Court  House.  June  3.  Tarleton  at 
Louisa  Court  House.  Lafayette  near  the  Wilderness.  June 
4.  Tarleton  at  Charlottesville.  Lafayette  crossed  the  Rapid 
Ann.  June  5.  Simcoe  at  Point  of  Fork.  June  6.  Tarleton 
near  Point  of  Fork,  on  the  east  side  of  Rivanna.  Lafayette 
recrossed  the  Rapid  Ann  at  Racoon  Ford. 

June  7.  Cornwallis,  with  his  army,  joined  Simcoe  and 
Tarleton  at  Jefferson's  and  Ross's  plantations,  near  Point  of 
Fork,  and  remained  there  until  the  13th,  sending  out  his 
light  troops  from  time  to  time  to  destroy  warehouses,  etc., 
in  the  region  round  about. 

For  some  time,  William  Cabell,  Jr.,  had  been  major  of 
Lieut.-Col.  John  Pope,  Jr.'s  battalion  of  Amherst  militia. 

On  June  9,  Col.  Hugh  Rose,  the  county  lieutenant,  sent 
him  the  following  letter,  indorsed  "  Public  Service :  "  — 

"  Sir,  —  There  is  a  probability  of  our  getting  two  or  three 
hundred  stand  of  good  arms  from  below,  as  soon  as  our 
Militia  can  possibly  assemble ;  they  will  probably  be  at 
Key's  Gap  to-morrow  evening.  You  will  therefore  exert 
yourself  to  the  utmost  to  hasten  the  meeting  of  those  allotted 
to  duty,  and  in  addition  to  them  solicit  all  within  your  reach 
to  turn  out  as  volunteers  to  take  the  arms  for  a  day  or  two 
until  those  ordered  on  duty  can  join.  Much  depends  on 
your  activity  and  the  ardour  of  the  people  at  this  juncture. 
'T  is  not  certainly  known  that  the  enemy  are  nearer  than 
the  Point  of  Fork  [Columbia]  ;  but  yet  the  stores  at  Albe- 
marle Court  old  Court  House  [near  Scottsville],  and  Ir- 
ving's  store  are  an  object  and  may  be,  indeed  certainly  are, 
in  danger.  For  the  security  of  those  stores  our  force  must 
be  employed.  No  jealous  Whig  will  refuse  to  turn  out  on 
such  an  occasion.  In  the  woods  and  such  defiles  as  we 
have,  a  few  musquet  men  will  be  an  overmatch  for  any 
number  of  horse.  And  Horse  alone  can  penetrate  far 
enough   from   the    enemy's   main    body  to  endanger   our 


194  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

stores.  If  the  People  have  arms  and  ammunition  let  them 
bring  them  on.  Such  as  choose  to  act  on  horseback, 
whether  it  be  their  tour  of  duty  or  not,  if  they  will  mount 
on  their  own  good  horses,  will  be  admitted  as  Horsemen, 
and  their  services  now,  for  the  tour  the  other  militia  are  to 
serve,  shall  exempt  them  from  their  tour  of  duty  when  it 
arrives.  You  will  do  well  to  gfet  two  or  three  2"Ood  riders 
to  assist  you  to-morrow.  Do  not  alarm  the  People,  but 
rather  encourage  to  activity  by  representing  the  prospect  of 
success  as  sure,  if  they  are  zealous  and  spirited. 

Your  Obt  Servt 

Hugh  Rose. 

"  New  Glasofow 

Saturday  8  o'clock  p.  m. 

"  Send  me  such  intelligence,  as  you  may  have  received, 
concerning  the  enemy's  movement,  by  express.       H.  R." 

The  enemy  did  not  venture  within  the  woods  and  defiles 
of  "  the  broken  lands  "  of  Old  Amherst. 

June  10.  Lafayette  was  near  Gordonsville,  marching  to- 
ward Albemarle  old  Court  House. 

June  12.  Lafayette  was  under  the  Southwest  Mountain, 
near  the  Rivanna  River.  June  13.  He  was  near  the  head 
of  Licking-Hole  Creek,  and  on  the  same  day  Cornwallis  left 
the  Point  of  Fork  and  marched  toward  the  lower  country. 
July  14,  Lafayette  follow  him.  On  the  16th,  CornwaUis 
arrived  in  Richmond ;  the  19tli,  Lafayette  join  Steuben ; 
and  the  21st,  Cornwallis  was  at  Bottom  Bridge. 

I  have  a  list  of  militia  ordered  into  service  from  Amherst 
County,  under  Lieut.-Col.  John  Pope,  Jr.,  and  Maj.  William 
Cabell,  Jr.  The  list  contains  the  names  of  five  captains, 
six  lieutenants,  three  ensigns,  and  277  non-commissioned 
officers  and  privates,  and  is  indorsed  on  the  back,  — 

"  March  to  join  the  army  commanded  by  the  Honorable 
Major-General  the  Marquis  de  la  Fayette. 

Daniel  Gaines,  Colonel  MiHtia,  Amherst. 

"June  ye  21st  1781." 

June  22.  Cornwalhs  was  at  New  Kent  Court  House. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        195 

On  June  23,  Col.  Daniel  Gaines  sent  the  following  letter 
to  Maj.  William  Cabell,  Jr.,  by  express :  — 

"  Dr.  Sir,  —  I,  this  Instant,  rec'd  your  favour  of  yester- 
day's date.  Previous  to  which,  I  had  sent  pr.  Express,  the 
Return  you  write  for.  I  am  exceedingly  concerned  at  the 
Tardiness  of  our  Militia.  I  have  done,  and  shall  continue 
to  do,  everything  in  my  power  to  bring  them  to  a  sense  of 
their  Duty ;  towards  which  nothing,  I  believe,  will  contrib- 
ute so  much  as  the  Court  Martial  to  be  held  on  Monday 
next  [25th]. 

"  You  will  receive  my  Dispatches  before  this  can  possibly 
reach  you  ;  it  is  therefore  unnecessary  for  me  to  repeat  any- 
thing therein  contained. 

I  am  with  much  esteem.  Sir, 

Your  hble  Servant, 

Dan.  Gaines." 

Major  William  Cabell  was  then  on  the  march  to  join 
Lafayette.  On  the  25th,  Cornwallis  was  at  Williamsburg. 
On  the  same  day,  Col.  William  Cabell  wrote  the  following 
letter  to  his  son,  William  :  — 

""  Sir,  —  I  am  just  returned  home  from  Staunton,  and 
have  to  inform  you  that  the  militia  are  now  to  be  paid  by 
an  Act  of  the  last  session  :  —  for  which  purpose  you  are  to 
direct  the  captains  to  make  out  pay-rolls  at  the  end  of  their 
tour,  to  commence  from  the  time  of  their  joining  the  army ; 
which  are  to  be  signed  by  the  commanding  officers  of  the 
regiment  they  are  in.  They  are  to  receive  nothing  more 
for  marching  to  and  from  the  army  than  their  rations. 
Their  pay  is  now  the  same  as  Continental  Soldiers,  and  the 
depreciation  of  the  money  to  be  made  up.  The  Field 
Officers  are  to  get  certificates  of  the  time  they  are  in  ser- 
vice from  the  commanding  officer  of  the  regiment  they  are 
in  —  to  entitle  them  to  pay  also.  Tours  of  duty  are  fixed 
by  law,  at  two  months  from  the  time  of  joining  the  army, 
and  in  no  case  to  continue  longer,  unless  the  relief  should 
be  prevented  from  coming  in  time  by  some  unavoidable 
accident. 


196  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

"  The  mode  of  paying  the  militia  is  by  certificates  from 
the  auditors,  which  are  made  payable  in  taxes;  for  had 
money  been  emitted  for  this  purpose,  the  sum  would  have 
been  so  enormous  as  to  have  destroyed  the  fabrick  of  our 
paper  money  altogether.  I  hope  this  will  satisfy  the  mili- 
tia. We  have  done  everything  for  them  that  the  situation 
of  our  country  will  admit  of. 

"  Pray  be  careful  in  directing  the  Captains  to  keep 
proper  Pay-rolls  and  have  them  certified,  as  before  men- 
tioned, in  order  that  the  men  may  have  justice  done  them. 

"  Genl.  Stevens  has  promised  me  to  give  you  every  assist- 
ance in  his  power.  You  will  find  him  to  be  a  very  worthy 
officer. 

"  The  family  are  all  well  and  desire  to  be  remembered  to 
you.  I  wish  you  success  in  your  first  essay  in  the  military 
department. 

Your  affectionate  father, 

W.  Cabell." 

June  26.  Lafayette  at  Tyre's  plantation,  twenty  miles 
from  Williamsburg.  Cornwallis  at  Spencer's  ordinary. 
27tli.  Lafayette  near  Jamestown.  28th.  Cornwallis  was  at 
Yorktown,  and,  July  4,  he  marched  to  Jamestown.  July  4. 
Lafayette's  army  consisted  of  Stevens'  and  Lawson's  bri- 
gades of  8000  Virginia  militia,  and  about  3,500  continen- 
tals. The  Amherst  miHtia  were  in  Stevens'  brigade.  July 
6.  Lafayette  attacked  Cornwallis  near  Green  Spring.  9th. 
Cornwallis  crossed  the  James.  Tarleton  left  Cobham  on 
James  River,  via  Petersburg,  Amelia  Court  House,  Prince 
Edward  Court  House,  etc.,  to  New  London.  12th.  Tarle- 
ton at  Amelia  Court  House.  13th.  At  Prince  Edward  Court 
House.  On  the  14th,  Maj.  William  Cabell,  Jr.,  was  in 
Amherst  on  "  Public  service,"  and  sent  a  letter  to  Col. 
Hugh  Rose  by  Harry  (his  body  servant),  which  has  not 
been  preserved.  The  next  morning,  Col.  Rose  set  off  to 
Bedford,  and  was  employed  there  until  Thursday  the  19th. 
Tarleton  reached  New  London  about  the  16th,  and  left  on 
the  morning  of  the  18th  (I  think)  via  Lunenburg,  Dinwid- 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        197 

die,  etc.,  and  joined  Cornwallis  at  Suffolk  on  July  24.  On 
the  same  day.  Col.  Hugh  Rose  sent  the  following  letter  to 
Maj.  Cabell  by  Col.  Patrick  Rose :  — 

"  Dear  Sir,  —  In  a  few  minutes  after  the  receipt  of  yours 
by  Harry,  I  received  an  express  from  Prince  Edward  in- 
forming me  of  Tarleton's  extraordinary  march  to  that  Court 
House,  ^dth  the  conjecture  that  his  Intentions  were  to 
destroy  the  stores  at  Peytonsburg  [Pittsylvania],  New  Glas- 
gow [Amherst],  and  New  London  [Bedford]  ;  to  prevent 
which  I  concluded  was  a  matter  of  the  first  Importance  and 
was  busied  in  endeavouring  to  effect  it  until  Thursday  even- 
ing [19th],  when  I  returned  home,  and  immediately  issued 
orders  to  the  several  officers  of  your  Battalion  to  meet  at 
Capt.  J.  Loving's  on  Wednesday  next  [25th]  for  the  trial 
of  delinquents.  I  have  likewise  ordered  the  three  last  Divi- 
sions to  hold  themselves  in  readiness  to  march  immediately 
to  the  relief  of  those  now  upon  duty.  The  reason  that  I  did 
not  ascertain  [fix  ?]  the  time  of  their  march  was  because  I 
was  desirous  that  your  Court  Martial  should  first  determine 
the  number  of  delinquents,  which  will  be  your  guide  in  call- 
ing upon  as  many  of  those  Divisions  as  will  amount  to  the 
fourth  of  your  Battalion,  which  is  127  men.  [Private 
affairs:  His  wife,  Maj.  Cabell's  aunt,  was  taken  with  a 
fever  on  the  morning  that  he  set  out  to  Bedford,  which  has 
not  intermitted  since,  etc.]     I  am 

Your  affectionate  friend, 

Hugh  Rose. 

"  Geddes 

Monday  morning."     [July  23.] 

"  Dr.  Sir  —  I  wrote  the  above  yesterday  morning,  not  in 
the  least  doubting  but  that  you  would  receive  it  in  the 
course  of  the  day,  by  some  of  our  officers,  who  promised  to 
call  upon  you ;  but  their  disappointment  in  wagons,  has 
caused  the  like  effect  in  your  letter.  This  supplement 
therefore  is  intended  as  an  apology,  in  which  light  I  hope 
you  will  properly  receive  it.  I  am  sorry  to  inform  you  of 
Caroline's  continued  illness.     I  congratulate  you  upon  the 


198  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

safe  arrival  of  your  brother  [Col.  Sam.  Cabell],  which  I 
was  informed  this  evening  of  by  the  guard  sent  to  James- 
town with  the  British  prisoners.  Ut  Super, 

Hugh  Rose. 

"Tuesday  [July  24]. 

"P.  S.  The  deserters  of  your  battalion  ought  to  be 
immediately  apprehended.  H.  R." 

I  have  but  little  relative  to  the  acts  of  the  Amherst 
militia  when  off  on  service.  In  William  Cabell,  Jr.'s  pa- 
pers there  are,  in  his  handwriting,  two  "  Returns  of  officers 
and  men  at  present  in  service  from  the  County  of  Amherst, 
to-gether  with  such  as  are  furloughed,  sick,  gone  home, 
etc."  These  returns  are  drafts  of  the  ^^ay-rolls  made  out 
at  the  end  of  two  tours  of  duty,  —  one  in  August  or  Sep- 
tember, and  the  other  in  October  or  November.  It  is  quite 
certain  that  they  served  at  Yorktown.  A  body  of  militia 
left  Amherst  to  join  Lafayette,  as  we  have  seen,  on  June 
21 ;  another  body  about  July  25  ;  and  another  body  on 
September  14;  and  other  divisions,  battalions,  etc.,  I  sup- 
pose, at  other  times. 

Cornwallis  landed  at  Yorktown  on  August  2;  Gen. 
O'Hara  and  the  rest  of  the  British  army  on  August  22, 
and  they  surrendered  on  October  19.  Lafayette  and  the 
Virginia  militia  were  generally  almost  in  sight  of  the  earl 
from  the  time  that  he  first  crossed  James  River  to  the  fall 
of  Yorktown.  Although  I  have  no  particular  account  of 
the  Amherst  militia,  I  know  that  Maj.  William  Cabell  was 
under  fire,  and  I  have  no  reason  to  suppose  that  his  com- 
mand did  not  do  their  duty.  Darkness  was  over  the  land 
of  Virginia  for  the  greater  part  of  1781 ;  but  the  sun  rose 
clear  and  bright  at  Yorktown,  and  shone  over  "  The  United 
States." 

On  the  6th  of  October,  1783,  Wilham  Cabell,  Jr.,  was 
appointed  surveyor  of  Amherst  County  by  William  and 
Mary  College,  which  office  he  continued  to  fill  until  De- 
cember 1,  1788,  when  he  resigned,  "  and  procured  the 
appointment  of  Col.  James  Higginbotham." 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        199 

In  October,  1783,  the  house  in  which  he  had  been  living 
in  the  "  Union  Hill  "  yard  since  January,  1781,  was  moved 
to  its  present  location  on  "  the  Colleton  "  estate,  which  had 
been  previously  given  to  him  by  his  father,  and  he  moved 
there  on  October  25. 

July  5,  1784,  he  qualified  as  one  of  the  justices  of  old 
Amherst  County,  an  office  which  he  continued  to  hold  until 
the  county  was  divided  in  1808.  He  was  a  contributor  to 
the  James  River  Company  prior  to  1787.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  General  Assembly  in  1789,  1790,  1791,  1793, 
1794,  1795,  1796,  1797,  and  possibly  after ;  but  political 
hfe  was  never  congenial  to  him.  Like  his  father  and 
uncles,  he  was  fond  of  fine  horses,  and  was  a  patron  of  the 
Warminster  and  New  Glasgow  race  courses  when  he  was  a 
young  man. 

June  25,  1781,  Col.  Clem.  Carrington,  his  wife's  brother, 
wrote  him  a  letter,  from  which  I  extract  the  following 
reference  to  Washington  :  "  The  beloved  President  passed 
lately  though  the  county  [Charlotte].  He  rested  a  day 
with  Mr.  Coles.  He  is  in  perfect  health.  We  did  not 
address  as  is  the  custom ;  but  the  laborer  forsook  his  work 
and  the  lame  forgot  his  crutch  to  gaze  on  him  as  he  passed, 
and  we  looked  at  him  without  mercy." 

Rev.  Isaac  Darneille  was  minister  of  Amherst  Parish  in 
1789  (possibly  before),  and  until  1793  (probably  after),  to 
whose  salary  the  Cabells  subscribed.  In  1790,  William 
Cabell,  Jr.,  was  a  vestryman,  and  on  June  6,  his  father, 
agreeable  to  an  order  of  the  .vestry,  turned  over  to  him  the 
subscription  paper  for  Mr.  Darneille. 

Col.  William  Cabell,  Jr.,  was  one  of  the  trustees  for 
establishing  an  academy  in  the  town  of  Warminster,  from 
October,  1791,  to  June  23,  1795,  and  after ;  for  how  long, 
I  do  not  know. 

On  March  1,  1792,  Judge  Paul  Carrington,  Sr.,  con- 
veyed by  deed  2000  acres  of  land  in  Lincoln  and  Nelson 
counties,  Ky.,  to  William  Cabell,  Jr.,  and  Samuel  W.  Ven- 
able  (whose  wives  were   daughters  of  Judge  Carrington). 


200  THE   CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

John  Breckenridge  attended  to  this  land  for  them,  which  I 
think  they  sold  prior  to  1800. 

One  who  knew  William  Cabell,  Jr.,  wrote  of  him  that 
"  college  friendships  in  general  are  not  lasting,  but  many  of 
his  fellow  students  were  his  friends  through  life."  And 
this  is  attested  by  letters  to  him,  still  preserved,  from  the 
Hon.  John  Brown,  Judge  Archd.  Stuart,  Judge  Sjiencer 
Eoane,  John  Nicholas,  Lunsford  Lomax,  and  others.  Most 
of  his  letters  prior  to  1802  are  lost,  but  enough  remain  to 
show  that  these  friendships  were  continuous.  October  13, 
1792,  John  Nicholas  wrote  to  him  from  Charlottesville, 
urging  him  to  be  a  candidate  to  represent  the  district  in 
Congress.  He  says :  ''  I  had  hoped,  that  I  should  have 
had  it  in  my  power,  once  in  my  life,  to  have  bestowed  my 
vote  where  private  friendship  and  a  variety  of  public  mo- 
tives had  united  to  demand  it.  But  that  unconquerable 
backwardness,  which  has  always  circumscribed  the  circle  of 
your  intimates,  will  forever  leave  them,  I  fear,  to  lament 
that  they  only  have  been  favoured  with  your  private  friend- 
ship. [After  insisting  that  he  is  the  man  for  the  times 
and  place,  he  concludes.]  I  should  feel  a  great  gratifica- 
tion in  being  one  who  had  assisted  in  dragging  you  thus 
against  your  will,  into  public  view.  At  least,  let  us  hear 
from  you ;  and  if  you  consent  to  be  elected,  nay,  do  more 
—  let  us  see  you.  Come  down  and  '  tangle  eye-beams ' 
with  us,  as  Dr.  Gilmer  says,  at  Novr  Court,  and  take  your 
stand,  while  in  the  neighborhood,  at  my  House. 

"  Please  make  my  best  respects  to  Mrs.  Cabell,  and  be- 
lieve me  to  be,  as  I  ever  have  professed  and  been 
Your  Sincere  friend,  and  Humle  Servt, 

John  Nicholas." 

Col.  Cabell,  regardless  of  the  wishes  of  his  friends,  re- 
fused to  become  a  candidate. 

This  John  Nicholas  was  the  son  of  the  Hon.  Robert 
Carter  Nicholas.  He  was  an  officer  in  the  Revolution ; 
member  of  the  House  of  Delegates ;  member  of  Congress, 
1793-1801.     Removed   to   New  York  in    1803,  and  was 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        201 

judge  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  for  Ontario  County 
from  1806  to  his  death  in  1819.  The  letter  to  Cabell  was 
sent  by  Capt.  John  Jouett,  who  had  conveyed  to  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly  the  timely  information  of  the  approach  of 
Tarleton  on  June  4,  1781,  for  which  service  he  had  been 
presented  by  the  executive  with  an  elegant  sword  and  a 
pair  of  pistols. 

On  March  22,  1796,  William  Cabell,  Jr.,  "paid  Nathan 
Crawford  fifteen  shillings,  it  being  one-twelfth  part  of  a 
sum  due  from  Amherst  Parish  to  the  Episcopal  Conven- 
tion ;  and  which  the  vestry  agreed  to  pay  at  Court."  I 
infer  from  this  entry  that  the  parish  was  regularly  organ- 
ized at  this  time,  with  twelve  vestrymen  and  a  minister; 
but  the  interest  in  "the  old  established  church"  was  cer- 
tainly on  the  wane,  and  it  scarcely  began  to  rally  from  the 
effects  of  the  Revolutionary  period  prior  to  1820. 

He  was  one  of  the  trustees  of  "  The  ColWe  of  Washingr- 
ton  in  Virginia  "  in  1796-1797. 

On  August  11,  1796,  William  Cabell,  Jr.,  was  appointed 
sheriff  of  Amherst  County.  He  was  again  appointed  No- 
vember 16,  1797,  and  continued  to  hold  the  office  until  Au- 
gust, 1798.  The  gross  amount  of  muster  fines  (28th  and 
90tli  regiments),  Amherst  militia,  in  1796,  was  $355.25  ;  in 
1797,  $373.25.  The  revenue  tax  for  1796,  due  in  1797, 
was,  on  land,  $1235,  and  on  other  property,  $1335.89; 
total,  $2570.89.  For  1797,  due  in  1798,  on  land,  $1868.10, 
on  other  property,  $1832.15,  and  on  merchants'  licenses, 
$265 ;  total,  $3965.25. 

I  do  not  know  when  he  became  a  lieutenant-colonel ;  but 
he  was  addressed  as  Col.  William  Cabell,  Jr.,  as  early  as 
1791.  In  1798,  at  the  time  of  the  threatened  difficulty 
with  France,  he  was  lieutenant-colonel,  commanding  the 
28th  regiment  of  Virginia  militia ;  and  in  the  summer  and 
fall  he  was  active  in  drilling  his  men,  teaching  them  a 
proper  knowledge  of  discipline,  the  use  of  arms,  etc.,  in 
order  to  be  prepared  for  the  emergency. 

After  the  death  of  his  father,  in  1798,  and  the  removal 


202  THE   CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

of  William  H.  Cabell  to  Midway  in  1801,  Col.  William  Ca- 
bell, Jr.,  removed,  about  1803,  from  "  Colleton  "  to  "  Union 
Hill,"  and  his  widowed  mother  hved  with  him. 

In  1796,  he  bought  two  pianos,  music,  extra  strings,  etc., 
of  W.  Southgate,  of  Richmond.  The  pianos  cost  $200 
each ;  the  music,  and  extras  for  both,  $50.  In  1800,  he 
bought  additional  "music  books,  and  strings  for  piano- 
forte." Col.  William  Cabell,  Sr.'s  dauofhters  were  taug-ht 
to  play  on  the  guitar ;  but  they  grew  up  in  the  Revo- 
lutionary period,  and  I  doubt  if  they  ever  owned  a  piano. 
I  believe  these  pianos  bought  for  Col.  William  Cabell,  Jr.'s 
daughters  to  have  been  the  first  at  Union  Hill. 

On  December  23,  1801,  Mr.  John  C.  Pike  received  a 
recommendation  from  Col.  Cabell  as  "  a  teacher  of  music." 

In  1796,  he  was  one  of  the  executors  of  Col.  Hugh  Rose, 
deceased.  In  1804,  Patrick  Henry,  Jr.  (son  of  Patrick 
Henry,  the  orator),  who  had  married  his  eldest  daughter, 
died,  and  he  had  much  to  do  with  the  management  of  his 
estate.  And  so  it  happened  that  many  of  the  Rose  and 
Henry  family  papers  were  once  at  "  Union  Hill ;  "  but  none 
of  them  are  here  now.  Many  of  Col.  Cabell's  own  papers 
have  been  preserved,  including  his  diary  for  1787-1798, 
and  many  letters  to  him  wTitten  during  1802-1822. 

In  1806,  he  paid  £7  10s.  on  his  contribution  to  New 
Glasgow  Academy.  In  1807,  he  paid  £15  lis.  more;  but 
the  exact  amount  of  his  contribution  is  not  evident. 

The  act  dividing  the  county  passed  the  General  As- 
sembly on  December  25,  1807.  On  December  28,  William 
B.  Hare,  the  state  senator,  wrote  to  him  in  reference 
thereto,  and  on  January  5,  1808,  David  S.  Garland  wrote 
hmi  a  letter,  from  which  I  will  extract :  — 

"  Before  this  you  -will  have  heard  that  the  county  of 
Amherst  has  been  divided  by  the  Parish  line.  The  lower 
county  is  called  Nelson,  the  upper  retains  the  original  name. 
The  temporary  seat  of  Justice  in  the  lower  county  is  at  the 
Old  Court  House  ["  Cabellsville"].  And  in  the  upper 
county  at   New  Glasgow  [or   "  CabeUsburg"].     Commis- 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        203 

sioners  from  the  adjacent  Counties  are  appointed  to  fix  the 
permanent  seat  of  Justice  in  both  Counties.  The  law  will 
go  into  operation  the  first  day  of  June  next.  Passed  in 
the  House  of  Delegates  101  to  53,  and  in  the  Senate  13 
to  5. 

^'  We  have  done  very  little  business  this  session.  We 
have  a  number  of  young  lawyers,  and  you  know  that  they 
must  talk  a  great  deal." 

A  few  days  after  this,  William  H.  Cabell,  who  was  then 
governor  of  the  State,  wrote  to  him  on  the  same  subject. 
Since  1778,  the  CabeUs  had  opposed  the  division ;  but  the 
county  was  large,  it  had  become  populous,  and  the  division 
was  now  necessary.  Col.  William  Cabell,  Jr.,  was  appointed 
the  first  presiding  justice  of  Nelson,  as  his  father  had  been 
of  Amherst  in  1761,  and  he  continued  to  fill  this  office  to 
the  satisfaction  of  the  people,  as  his  father  had  done,  during 
the  remainder  of  his  active  Hfe,  some  ten  years  or  more. 

The  first  Nelson  court  was  held  at  Cabellsville  on  June 
27,  1808.  Five  of  the  first  magistrates  were  Cabells,  and 
five  were  of  their  kin,  or  allied  by  marriage.  There  were 
thirty-seven  justices  in  all. 

Col.  William  Cabell,  Jr.,  was  one  of  the  subscribers  to 
the  original  endowment  of  the  "  Central  College,"  which 
was  afterwards  expanded  into  the  University  of  Virginia. 

He  died  November  22,  1822,  and  the  following  notice 
appeared  in  "  The  Richmond  Enquirer  "  of  December  12 : 
"Died  on  Novr  22d.  in  the  63d.  year  of  his  age.  Col. 
William  Cabell  of  '  Union  Hill '  in  the  county  of  Nelson. 
Seldom  has  a  man  lived  so  highly  respected,  or  died  so 
deeply  regretted  by  all  who  knew  him.  His  moral  char- 
acter was  purest  among  the  pure.  In  aU  the  private  rela- 
tions he  was  conspicuous  for  his  virtues ;  the  most  dutiful 
son ;  the  most  affectionate  husband  ;  the  most  tender  father  ; 
the  kindest  master ;  the  most  friendly  neighbor.  His  man- 
ners were  bland,  dignified,  and  prepossessing.  His  judg- 
ment was  strong,  clear,  and  uncontrolled  by  passion  or 
prejudice.     His  mind,  naturally  vigorous,  was  embelhshed 


204  THE   CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

by  classical  education,  improved  by  subsequent  study,  and 
strengthened  by  experience." 

Mrs.  Ann  Carrington  Cabell  (his  wife)  was  born  June 
9,  1760,  in  Charlotte  County,  Va.,  and  baptized  by  Rev. 
James  Craig,  of  Cumberland.  Her  character  is  well  de- 
scribed in  the  following  extract  from  an  obituary  notice  :  — 

"  Departed  this  life  on  the  30th  of  March,  1838,  at  Union 
Hill,  Mrs.  Ann  Carrington  Cabell,  in  the  78th  year  of  her 
asre.  .  .  .  Mild  and  unassumino;  in  her  manners,  with  dioj- 
nity  and  Roman  firmness,  she  commanded  the  respect  and 
gained  the  love  of  all  who  knew  her.  Her  health  had  been 
feeble  for  some  time ;  but  the  illness  which  caused  her  death 
was  sudden  in  its  attack.  She  believed  that  her  hour  had 
come :  at  first  the  idea  of  dissolution  —  the  separation  of 
Soul  and  body  —  was  appalling ;  but  soon  the  Christian 
faith  was  superior  to  Death  and  the  Grave.  And  she  pre- 
sented again  the  sublime  spectacle,  which  has  so  often 
cheered  the  Christian,  of  a  frail  feeble  worm  of  the  dust 
struggling  with  the  agonies  of  dissolving  nature,  and  the 
separation  of  every  earthly  tie,  so  upheld  by  the  Strong 
Arm  and  supported  by  the  Holy  Spirit  of  Jehovah,  as  to 
be  able  to  say  —  Oh  !  Death,  where  is  thy  sting  !  Oh  ! 
Grave,  where  is  thy  Victory  ?  Let  us  honor  her  memory 
by  imitating  her  virtues.  She  was  for  more  than  40  years 
a  follower  of  the  meek  and  lowly  Jesus,  and  died  in  the 
Communion  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church." 

The  sons  and  daughters  of  this  old  lady  were  in  many 
respects  among  the  most  remarkable  men  and  women  ever 
produced  in  Virginia ;  and  the  respect  with  which  she  her- 
self inspired  all  classes  and  races  Avas  wonderful.  As  an 
amusing  illustration  of  this  :  Many  years  ago,  I  was  talking 
to  a  very  religious  old  colored  man,  who  formerly  belonged 
to  her,  and  he  remarked  that  in  his  whole  life  he  had 
never  known  but  two  persons  in  this  life,  who  were  cer- 
tainly sanctified.  I  asked  him  who  they  were,  and  his 
reply  was,  "Me  and  Miss  Ann." 

Judge  Paul  Carrington,  the  elder  (Mrs.  Cabell's  father), 


MRS-   ANNE  CARRINGTON   CABELL 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        205 

was  born  March  5,  1732  (0.  S.) ;  that  is,  March  16,  1733, 
present  style.  About  1748-1750,  he  went  to  that  part  of 
Lunenburg  which  is  now  Charlotte  County,  Va.,  to  write  in 
the  clerk's  office  of  Col.  Clement  Read,  which  was  located 
at  his  seat,  "  Bushy  Forest,"  and  to  study  the  law  under 
him.  He  began  to  practice  at  twenty-one,  and  having 
practiced  in  his  county  as  an  attorney  for  twelve  months, 
he  was  recommended  by  his  county  court  as  worthy,  etc., 
and  in  May,  1755,  he  received  a  license  to  practice,  signed 
by  Peyton  Randolph,  John  Randolph,  and  George  Wythe. 
He  met  with  success  in  his  profession  from  the  first. 

He  was  married  October  1,  1755,  by  Rev.  William  Kay, 
to  Margaret,  second  daughter  of  Col.  Clement  Read.  They 
resided  at  "  Mulberry  Hill,"  near  the  junction  of  the  Little 
Roanoke  with  Staunton  River,  on  an  elevated  and  beautiful 
site.  He  was  appointed  king's  attorney  of  Bedford  County, 
May  3,  1756 ;  major  of  Lunenburg  militia  in  1761 ;  and 
colonel  of  Charlotte  militia,  December  3,  1764.  He  repre- 
sented Charlotte  in  the  House  of  Buro^esses  from  its  first 
formation  from  Lunenburg  in  March,  1765,  until  1775. 
His  first  wife  died  May  1,  1766,  and  he  left  a  record  that 
"  she  was  the  best  of  wives  and  a  woman  of  innumerable 
virtues."  He  was  appointed  king's  attorney  of  Mecklen- 
burg, November  3,  1767 ;  of  Botetourt,  May  4,  1770 ;  and 
of  Lunenburg,  October  18,  1770;  county  lieutenant  and 
presiding  justice  of  Charlotte,  April  11,  1772 ;  and  clerk 
of  Halifax  County,  November  17,  1772.  He  was  for  many 
years  a  vestryman  and  churchwarden  of  Cornwall  Parish. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Mercantile  Asssociation  of 
1770 ;  of  the  Convention  of  August,  1774 ;  and  chairman 
of  the  Charlotte  County  Committee,  1774-1776.  This 
committee,  at  its  meeting  on  January  13,  1775,  indorsed 
the  resolutions  of  the  late  Continental  Congress,  and  at  its 
meeting  on  February  6,  passed  strong  resolutions  respecting 
persons  suspected  of  disloyalty  to  the  American  cause. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Convention  of  March  20-27,  1775, 
and  of  that  of  July  17  to  August  26,  1775.     He  was  a 


206  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

member  of  the  first  state  Committee  of  Safety,  August  to 
December,  1775 ;  of  the  Convention  of  December  1,  1775, 
to  January  20,  1776 ;  of  the  second  state  Committee  of 
Safety,  January  to  July,  1776;  and  of  Convention  of  May 
6  to  July  5,  1776.^  He  is  frequently  mentioned  in  the 
papers  of  Col.  William  Cabell,  the  elder,  of  "  Union  Hill." 
He  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Delegates  from  1776  to 
1778. 

He  was  elected  a  judge  of  the  first  General  Court  of  the 
new  republican  form  of  government  on  January  23,  1778, 
under  the  act  of  October  session,  1777,  and  commissioned 
on  February  28,  1778,  and  so  continuing,  became  one  of 
the  judges  of  the  court  of  appeals,  as  organized  by  the  act 
of  May  session,  1779,  which  exalted  position  he  continued 
to  fill  until  the  constitution  of  the  court  of  appeals  was 
changed  by  the  act  passed  by  the  General  Assembly  on 
December  22,  1788.  He  was  again  chosen  under  the  new 
constitution  a  member  of  the  same  court,  and  continued  to 
discharge  the  duties  thereof  until  1807,  when  he  resigned. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  celebrated  Convention  of  June 
2-27,  1788,  and  voted  for  the  Constitution.^ 

He  married  (2d)  March  6,  1792,  Miss  Priscilla  Sims,  aged 
16 ;  she  died  in  September,  1803,  and  he  records  that  her 
loss  was  irreparable  to  him  and  to  her  family. 

His  letter  of  resignation,  dated  January  1,  1807,  ad- 
dressed to  Gov.  William  H.  Cabell,  begins  thus :  "  Having 
served  my  country  for  forty-two  years,  without  intermission, 
—  twenty-nine  of  those  years  devoted  to  the  judiciary  De- 
partment, —  and  being  now  in  the  seventy-fifth  year  of  my 
age,  I  think  it  time  for  me  to  retire  from  public  business 
to  the  exalted  station  of  a  private  citizen." 

On  August  1,  1807,  he  wrote  to  his  son-in-law,  Col.  Wil- 
liam Cabell :  "  I  had  served  the  public  a  great  many  years, 
and  I  know  with  faithful  integrity,  I  had  arrived  to  a  time 

1  See  The  Virginia  Convention  of  1776,  by  Grigsby,  pp.  97-105. 

2  See  "  The  Virginia  Convention,"  Virginia  Historical  Collections,  vol.  iv. 
new  series. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        207 

of  life  that  every  man  ought,  in  my  opinion,  to  retire,  and 
not  remain  and  die  at  his  post  as  some  of  my  brethren  did." 

He  died  on  Tuesday,  January  23,  1818,  at  his  seat  in 
Charlotte.  A  notice  of  him  in  "  The  Richmond  Enquirer," 
July  7,  1818,  begins  :  — 

"  This  venerable  and  highly  respected  gentleman  was 
perhaps  the  oldest  of  the  few  surviving  patriots  who  took 
an  active  part  in  the  Councils  of  his  Country,  in  her  first 
struggle  for  Liberty." 

He  was  the  son  of  Col.  George  Carrington  (the  sketch  of 
whom,  see). 

Col.  Clement  Read,  the  father  of  Judge  Paul  Carring- 
ton's  first  wife,  was  born  in  1707  in  Virginia.  It  has  been 
said  that  John  Robinson,  known  as  "  President  Robinson," 
was  his  guardian,  and  superintended  his  education,  which 
was  completed  at  William  and  Mary.  He  was  educated  to 
the  law.  He  married  Mary  Hill  in  1730 ;  qualified  as  an 
attorney  in  Goochland  at  the  September  county  court,  1733. 
He  is  said  to  have  obtained  a  patent  for  lands  on  the  Little 
Roanoke  about  1733,  and  to  have  settled  on  these  lands 
soon  after.  He  qualified  as  an  attorney  in  Albemarle  at 
March  court,  174?. 

On  January  17,  1743  (0.  S.),  Maj.  William  Mayo  deeded 
400  acres  of  land  "  on  the  branches  of  Rockfish  River  near 
the  Blue  Mountains "  to  Samuel  Hairston,  and  the  deed 
was  attested  by  George  Carrington,  Samuel  Cobbs,  and 
Clement  Read. 

In  1745,  William  Battersby,  attorney-at-law,  and  Clement 
Read  entered  for  an  island  called  Rock  Island,  in  the 
James  River,  below  the  mouth  of  Ballinger's  Creek. 

In  February,  1746,  he  became  the  first  clerk  of  the  new 
county  of  Lunenburg,  which  office  he  held  for  seventeen 
years  —  that  is,  to  his  death.  He  was  also  the  county  lieu- 
tenant ;  presiding  magistrate ;  member  of  the  vestry ;  fre- 
quently a  burgess,  and  one  of  the  most  influential  men  in 
the  county. 

He  died  January  2,  1763,  and  was  buried  at   his  seat 


208  THE   CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

called  "  Bushy  Forest,"  in  the  present  county  of  Charlotte, 
which,  however,  was  not  formed  untU  the  year  after  his 
death. 

His  widow,  surviving  him,  died  on  November  11,  1780, 
in  her  69th  year.  Mrs.  Mary  Hill  Read  was  a  wealthy 
and  most  accomplished  lady.  She  lived  at  "  White  Bank," 
one  of  the  old  Robinson  homesteads  in  King  and  Queen 
County,  and  it  was  there  that  Clement  Read,  the  adopted 
son  of  John,  or  "  President "  Robinson,  first  saw  her. 

"  Madam  Read,"  as  she  was  called,  was  one  of  the  most 
imposing  characters  in  the  beginning  of  Charlotte.  The 
county  seat  was  named  in  her  honor,  Marysville,  and  many 
anecdotes  of  this  spirited  old  dame,  her  stately  bearing, 
her  strong  family  pride,  her  zealous  support  of  the  church 
of  her  forefathers,  etc.,  are  still  preserved.  She  is  said  to 
have  been  "  the  only  daughter  of  Wilham  Hill,  an  officer 
of  the  British  Navy  of  the  same  family  as  the  Marquis  of 
Downshire,  by  his  wife  Priscilla  Jenings,  daughter  of  Gov- 
ernor Edmund  Jenings  of  Virginia." 

The  records  of  King  and  Queen  County  having  been 
destroyed,  I  have  not  been  able  to  verify  the  parentage  of 
Col.  Clement  Read,  or  of  his  wife. 

11.  Col.  William^  and  Anne  Carrington  Cabell  had 
issue :  — 

i.  Paul  C,  b.  November  10,  1781 ;  d.  September  14, 
1783. 

54.  ii.  Elvira  ^ 

55.  iii.  Margaret*. 

56.  iv.  Anne  Carrington*. 

57.  v.  William  Jordan  *. 

58.  vi.  Mary  Elizabeth  *. 

59.  vii.  Clementina*. 

60.  viii.  Sarah  Carrington*. 

61.  ix.  Edward*. 

62.  X.  Paul  Carrington  *. 

63.  xi.  Mayo*. 

xii.  Mildred  Coles,  b.  March  19, 1802 ;  d.  June  5, 1802. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        209 

xiii.  Mildred  Howell,  b.  May  24,  1803 ;  d.  September 
15,  1803. 
64.  xiv.  Patrick  Henry  *. 

12.  Paulina  ^  Cahell  was  born  in  1763 ;  her  age  is  given 
as  six  years  in  1769.  She  was  educated  by  tutors  at  home, 
—  Col.  William  Fontaine,  Rev.  Robert  Buchan,  and  others. 
She  was  taught  to  dance  by  Mr.  Jeter  in  1779 ;  his  terms 
were  £25  per  scholar  a  session. 

"  Oct.  1st  1781.  Major  Edmund  Read  asked  liberty  to 
court  my  daughter  Paulina."  (Col.  William  Cabell's 
Diary.)  This  was  the  harbinger  of  the  first  marriage  sol- 
emnized in  the  present  "  Union  Hill "  house,  which  took 
place  in  1782.  Maj.  Read  and  his  wife  continued  to  reside 
at  Union  Hill  for  several  years. 

"  Sept.  22nd  1783,  a  son  born  to  Paulina  Read  and  her 
husband,  died  in  a  few  hours." 

"July  7th  1785.  Majr  Read  and  his  wife  set  off  on 
their  way  to  the  Sweet  Springs." 

"  Feby  1st  1787.  Majr  Read,  his  wife  and  Peggy  set  off 
on  their  way  to  Charlotte."     (Col.  William  Cabell's  Diary.) 

They  settled  on  her  husband's  estate,  called  "  Retire- 
ment," on  the  Little  Roanoke,  about  three  miles  from  Char- 
lotte Court  House. 

"  About  the  year  1788,  during  the  great  religious  re\dval, 
she  was  brought  to  the  knowledge  of  the  truth  and  made  a 
public  profession  of  her  faith  in  the  Presbyterian  Church  at 
Briery,  Va.,  under  the  ministry  of  that  eminent  and  highly 
favored  servant  of  God,  the  Rev.  John  Blair  Smith,  D.  D." 

Maj.  Edmund  Read  died  in  December,  1802. 

Having  no  surviving  children  of  her  own,  she  adopted 
her  deceased  sister's  daughter  Louisa.  In  1805,  she  wrote 
to  her  brother  WilHam  that  she  "  had  no  company  but  little 
Louisa."  In  November,  1806,  that  she  was  "  taking  Louisa 
to  school  at  Winchester,"  etc.  Here  she  met  the  Rev. 
Nash  Le  Grand,  to  whom  she  was  married  after  1808  (I 
think),  and  Hved  with  him  in  Winchester  for  a  time ;  but 
finally   removed   to   her   residence  in  Charlotte.     Mr.  Le 


210  THE   CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

Grand  died  in  October,  1814,  while  on  a  visit  to  Frederick 
County.  Mrs.  Le  Grand  continued  to  reside  at  "  Retire- 
ment "  for  some  years,  but  when  growing  old,  in  order  to 
be  near  church  at  Charlotte  Court  House,  she  purchased 
the  residence  in  the  village  which  was  ever  after  one  of  the 
chief  resting-places  of  the  clergy  and  religious  persons  of 
all  persuasions  who  happened  to  visit  the  county  during  her 
life.  She  died  on  February  5,  1845,  and  Avas  buried  with 
her  first  husband  in  the  family  cemetery  at  "  Retirement." 

I  have  a  long  obituary  notice  of  her,  written  it  is  said  by 
the  Rev.  Mr.  Osborne,  commending  her  Christian  character 
and  many  virtues,  from  which  I  will  give  an  extract :  "  Her 
Christian  career  was  begun  with  a  zeal  corresponding  to  the 
peculiar  strength  of  her  character,  and  she  held  on  her  way 
in  a  manner  that  secured  the  confidence  of  the  church  in 
the  deep  solemnity  of  her  religious  professions. 

"  She  was  a  steady  and  liberal  contributor  to  the  funds 
of  the  Bible,  the  Tract,  the  Sabbath  School,  Education, 
Missionary,  and  Colonization  Societies.  To  the  Union  The- 
ological Seminary,  Va.,  besides  various  liberal  donations 
made  during  her  life,  she  bequeathed  the  sum  of  $2000. 
Her  charitable  contributions  to  the  poor  were  numerous, 
large,  and  promptly  made." 

"  Aunt  Le  Grand,"  as  she  was  universally  known  in  her 
later  years,  was  one  of  the  most  noted  of  the  Union  Hill 
family.  I  have  long  sketches  of  her,  written  for  me  by  the 
late  Hon.  Hugh  Blair  Grigsby  and  Judge  Asa  D.  Dicken- 
son. She  was  "  a  burning  and  a  shining  light "  in  the 
Presbyterian  Church.  It  was  in  her  house  at  "  Retire- 
ment "  that  Dr.  Archibald  Alexander  lived  while  he  was  the 
pastor  of  the  Briery  Church,  and  the  oak  beneath  which  he 
was  wont  to  study  may  still  be  seen  in  the  yard.  And 
many  years  later,  the  Rev.  Dr.  James  W.  Alexander  was 
the  guest  of  "  Aunt  Le  Grand  "  during  his  entire  term  of 
service  in  Charlotte. 

The  following  sketches  her  as  she  appeared  to  one  of  her 
young  nieces  at  "  Union  Hill :  "  — 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        211 

*'  Aunt  Le  Grand  was  a  woman  of  great  energy,  benevo- 
lence, and  intellect.  Her  whole  mind  seemed  to  be  absorbed 
in  the  subject  of  religion.  Unfortunately  she  was  inclined 
to  take  the  gloomy  view  of  life.  She  thought  her  Episco- 
pal relatives  in  Nelson  lost  in  worldHness  and  devoid  of  aU 
true  Christian  virtue ;  but  she  still  loved  her  relatives  and 
each  year  paid  them  a  missionary  visit.  These  visits  were 
generally  looked  forward  to  with  dread  by  the  younger 
members  of  the  family,  and  not  without  some  sinkings  of 
the  heart  by  the  older  ones.  On  one  of  these  visits  she  Avas 
greatly  shocked  to  find  that  her  brother  (Col.  William 
Cabell,  Jr.)  had  actually  employed  a  dancing-master  in  his 
family,  and  she  did  not  hesitate  to  give  vent  to  her  feelings 
accordingly.  Yet,  withal,  the  old  lady's  mind  had  a  very 
practical  turn,  and  when  she  found  that  the  master  was  giv- 
ing only  one  lesson  per  day,  she  took  her  brother  again  to 
task.  She  told  him  that  she  was  bitterly  opposed  to  dan- 
cing, but  if  he  would  employ  a  teacher  for  his  children  that 
he  certainly  ought  to  get  the  worth  of  his  money,  and  in 
order  to  do  this,  he  should  make  the  dancing-master  give 
at  least  three  lessons  a  day. 

"I  remember  well  her  last  visit  to  Union  Hill;  Mrs. 
Bruce  was  there  with  her  two  daughters,  in  the  height  of 
their  reign,  surrounded  by  crowds  of  admirers.  All  dreaded 
Aunt  Le  Grand's  visit,  for  the  mirth  of  so  many  young  peo- 
ple could  not  be  easily  restrained ;  but  by  keeping  the  two 
parlors  open  all  passed  off  very  quietly.  For  the  young 
people  would  go,  two  or  three  at  a  time,  from  their  parlor 
to  sit  with  the  old  lady  in  hers  and  listen  to  her  admoni- 
tions. So  that  she  left  without  seeming  to  have  been  as 
much  shocked  as  usual  at  the  wickedness  of  her  young  rela- 
tives in  Nelson." 

Maj.  Edmund  Read,  a  soldier  of  the  Revolution,  was  a 
son  of  Col.  Clement  Read,  of  Charlotte  County,  and  a 
brother  of  Margaret  Read  (who  married  Judge  Paul  Car- 
rington,  the  elder),  of  Thomas  Read  (who  is  sketched  in 
Grigsby's  "  Virginia  Convention  of  1776,"  pp.  105-109), 


212  THE   CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

and  of  Col.  Isaac  Read  (ibid.  p.  107),  of  the  4:th  Virginia 
Regiment,  who  died  and  lies  buried  in  Philadelphia.  Maj. 
Read  was  a  widower  when  he  married  Paulina  Cabell ;  his 
first  wife  was  a  Miss  Lewis,  but  he  left  no  surviving  issue. 

Revi.  Nash  Le  Grand  was  the  son  of  Peter  Le  Grand,  of 
Prince  Edward  County,  in  whose  family  old  Dr.  William 
Cabell  practiced  in  1760.  He  was  of  Huguenot  descent. 
His  mother  was  sister  to  Col.  John  Nash,  of  Templeton,  of 
the  same  family  as  Judge  Frederick  Nash,  of  Hillsboro', 
North  Carolina.  For  a  sketch  of  Rev.  Nash  Le  Grand,  see 
Foote's  "  Sketches  of  Virginia,"  first  series,  pp.  530-542. 

13.  Landon^  Cahell  was  born  prior  to  February  21, 
1765.  From  May,  1772  to  1777,  he  was  going  to  the  same 
schools  with  his  brother  William  (the  sketch  of  whom  see). 
From  1777  to  1778,  he  remained  at  Union  Hill  under  the 
tuition  of  the  Rev.  Robert  Buchan ;  from  July  30,  1778 
to  1780,  he  was  at  Plampden  Sidney  Academy ;  and  at  Wil- 
liam and  Mary  College  from  March,  1780,  to  May,  1781, 
when  the  exercises  at  the  college  were  suspended  on  account 
of  the  occujDation  of  that  part  of  the  State  by  the  enemy. 
While  at  college,  he  became  a  member  of  the  Phi  Beta 
Ka2Jpa  Society.  It  is  traditional  that  he  served  at  York- 
town  in  the  college  company  attached  to  his  Uncle  Joe's 
regiment  of  militia. 

"  Jan'y  25th,  1782.  Landon  set  off  on  his  way  to  Gen- 
eral Watts'  to  be  inoculated." 

"  Feby  26th  1782.  Landon  returned  from  Mr.  Watts'  in 
Prince  Edward,  where  he  had  been  twice  in  order  to  get 
inoculated,  by  Dr.  Rose,  who  disappointed  him  by  going 
Southward." 

"  Feb'y  28th.  Landon  went  to  Col.  Coles'  for  his  sister 
Paulina."     (Col.  William  Cabell's  Diary.) 

Landon  had  reentered  WilHam  and  Mary  College  in 
1783,  where  he  continued  until  May,  1785. 

"Deer.  17th  1785.  Landon  set  off  on  his  way  to  Dr. 
Thomas  Walker's  where  he  intends  to  stay  some  time  study- 
ing the  law  with  his  son  Francis." 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        213 

"  May  5tli,  1786,  my  son  Landon  set  ofJ  on  his  way  to 
North  Carolina,  in  order  to  practice  the  law.  I  gave  him 
.£250  cash,  a  pair  of  fine  horses,  a  negro  servant,  and 
every  other  necessary  of  clothing,  etc,  etc."  He  was  in- 
volved in  an  affair  of  the  heart  at  the  time ;  he  was  restless, 
and  did  not  remain  in  North  Carolina,  but  soon  returned 
home.  On  August  31,  1786,  his  father  made  this  entry  in 
his  diary :  "  Landon  Cabell  set  off  on  his  way  to  Camden, 
South  Carolina."  He  was  still  restless.  The  affair  was 
with  a  "  Miss  C,"  of  whom  he  always  writes  in  the  most 
affectionate  way  ;  but  her  full  name  does  not  appear  in  any 
of  his  letters,  and  I  have  no  idea  who  she  was.  The  affair 
did  not  run  smoothly ;  but  whether  this  was  owing  to  the 
opposition  of  herself,  or  her  family,  or  of  his  family,  does 
not  appear.  It  is  only  evident  that  there  was  some  diffi- 
culty in  the  way,  and  that  this  fact  so  preyed  upon  his 
mind  as  to  make  him  resolve  to  seek  relief  in  absence  and 
obscurity.  From  August  31,  1786,  his  whereabouts  was 
entirely  unknown  to  his  family  and  friends  until  May, 
1792,  when,  "  after  searching  the  wide  world  over,"  he  was 
found  by  Mr.  Myers,  living  in  obscurity,  as  a  clerk  in  a 
lawyer's  office,  in  Kingston,  Jamaica.  His  brother  William 
wrote  to  him  at  once,  urging  him  to  return  home,  to  which 
letter  he  replied  on  September  2,  1792,  declining  to  come. 
In  December  following,  his  father  wrote  to  him  co'mmand- 
ing  him  to  come  home,  and  he  came  ;  but  he  continued  to 
lead  a  retired  life  until  his  death. 

"  Oct  28th  1793,  gave  my  son  Landon  my  Nassau  Plan- 
tation." He  had  arrived  at  home  only  a  few  months  before 
this.  He  married,  in  1794,  his  cousin,  Miss  Judith  Scott 
Rose.  He  lived  first  at  "  Spring  Hill "  (now  known  as 
"Montezuma  "),  until  he  removed  to  his  Nassau  plantation 
(which  his  father  had  bought  from  the  first  Dutch  settlers), 
then  called  "Job's  Valley,"  now  "Huntley."  He  after- 
wards sold  this  plantation  to  his  brother-in-law,  Robert 
Rives,  and  lived  for  a  time  in  Lynchburg,  and  finally  on  his 
wife's  estate,  "  Rose  Hall,"  in  Amherst  County,  where  he 


214  THE   CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

died  in  January,  1834,  and  is  buried.  June  1,  1804,  he 
was  one  of  the  three  commissioners  appointed  by  Gov.  John 
Page  to  supervise  the  election  of  presidential  electors  in 
Amherst  County. 

He  was  long  a  justice  of  the  peace,  prior  to  1808,  in 
Amherst,  and  from  1808  for  many  years  in  Nelson,  of 
which  latter  county  he  was  sheriff  in  1815  and  1816.  Gen. 
B.  W.  S.  Cabell,  who  knew  him,  wrote  of  him:  "Landon 
was  esteemed,  generally,  to  have  been  the  most  literary  man 
of  his  family  ;  with  talents  and  attainments  qualifying  him 
for  any  position,  he  resisted  all  the  efforts  of  his  friends  to 
draw  him  into  public  life." 

There  is  a  brief  sketch  of  him  in  "  Sketches  and  Recol- 
lections of  Lynchburg,"  pp.  217,  218. 

Another,  not  of  his  name,  who  knew  him  long  and  well 
thus  wrote  of  him :  — 

"  Landon  Cabell  was  one  of  the  noblest  men  we  ever 
boasted  of  in  Virginia.  He  was  a  man  both  of  brilliant 
genius  and  high  cultivation,  particularly  excelling  in  the 
art  of  conversation.  He  was  offered  a  place  in  his  cabinet 
by  President  Madison,  to  whom  he  was  allied  by  marriage, 
[his  wife's  brother,  who  was  his  first  cousin,  married  Madi- 
son's sister],  but  he  declined  this,  as  he  did  many  offices  of 
distinction  in  his  State.  He  spent  the  life  of  a  hermit, 
charming  all  who  enjoyed  his  hospitality  with  his  elegant 
manners  and  instructive  conversation." 

His  wife,  Judith  Scott  Rose,  was  the  daughter  of  Col. 
Hugh  Rose  and  his  wife,  Caroline  Matilda  Jordan  (died  in 
1809),  the  daughter  of  Col.  Samuel  Jordan  by  his  second 
wife,  Mrs.  Judith  Scott  Ware. 

Col.  Hugh  Rose  was  born  September  18,  1743 ;  he  was 
a  justice  of  the  peace  for  Amherst  from  1765,  I  believe,  to 
his  death ;  a  member  of  the  County  Committee,  1775-1776 ; 
a  vestryman  of  Amherst,  and  after  1779,  of  Lexington 
Parish ;  was  sheriff  of  his  county  in  1776  ;  colonel  of  mili- 
tia ;  county  lieutenant  in  1780  and  after ;  member  House 
of  Delegates,  1785-1786;  a  trustee  of  Warminster  Acad- 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        215 

emy  in  1791-1795,  etc.  His  will,  dated  October  16,  1794, 
was  probated  January  19,  1795.  Col.  William  Cabell,  Jr., 
was  one  of  his  executors. 

"  Feb'y  2nd  1795.  To  cash  paid  Wm.  S.  Crawford  for 
the  Rev.  Charles  Crawford  for  the  funeral  sermon  of  Hugh 
Rose,  £3J' 

Col.  Hugh  Rose  was  the  son  of  the  celebrated  Rev. 
Robert  Rose  by  his  second  wife,  Anne  Fitz  Hugh,  who 
descended  from  well-known  Eastern  Virginia  families.  She 
was  born  March  8,  1721,  and  died  April  18,  1789.  Her 
father,  Henry  Fitz  Hugh,  born  January  15,  1687,  died 
December  12,  1758 ;  married  February  24,  1718,  Susanna 
Cooke  (born  December  7,  1693,  died  Nov.  21,  1749), 
daughter  of  Mordecai  Cooke,  of  Gloucester.  Henry  Fitz 
Hugh  was  a  son  of  Col.  William  Fitz  Hugh  (1651-1701), 
the  emigrant  from  England,  by  his  wife,  Sarah  Tucker,  who 
was  born  August  2,  1663,  in  Westmoreland  County,  Va. 

Rev.  Robert  Rose,  born  at  Wester  Alves  in  Scotland, 
February  12,  1704,  was  ordained  by  the  bishop  of  London, 
came  to  Virginia  about  1725,  was  minister  of  St.  Anne's  in 
Essex  1726-1747,  and  of  St.  Anne's  in  Albemarle  1747- 
1751.  He  died  June  30,  1751,  in  Richmond,  Va.,  and  was 
buried  in  old  St.  John's  churchyard.  He  was  an  active 
business  man,  pioneer,  and  preacher.  He  was  never  idle, 
but  always  doing  his  duty  in  all  ways.  He  was  a  friend 
and  an  administrator  of  Gov.  Alexander  Spotswood;  an 
inventor  of  a  great  improvement  in  the  navigation  of  the 
mountain  streams ;  one  of  our  earliest  and  best  citizens. 
His  will  was  probated  November  12,  1751,  when  his  wife, 
Anne  Rose,  qualified  as  the  executrix  with  Peter  Jefferson, 
John  Harvie,  and  John  Nicholas  as  her  securities.  The 
inventory  of  his  estate  was  made  in  January,  1752.  He 
was  of  the  fifteenth  generation  from  Hugh  Rose  of  Easter 
Geddes,  who  died  in  1333  ;  and  of  the  eighth  generation 
from  Hugh  Rose  (died  1517)  of  Kilravock,  and  his  wife, 
Lady  Margaret  Seton,  daughter  of  Alexander,  first  earl  of 
Huntley,  and  sister  to  George,  the  second  earl,  who  married 


1. 

ii. 

65. 

iii. 

66. 

iv. 

67. 

V. 

216  THE   CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

the  Princess  Joanna,  daughter  of  James  I.  of  Scotland,  and 
relict  of  James,  Earl  of  Angus. 

13.  Landon  ^  and  Judith  Scott  Rose  Cabell  had  issue :  — 
Elvira,  d.  infant. 
Alfred,  d.  infant. 
Landon  ^. 
Robert  H.^ 
Elizabeth  \ 

14.  Hector  ^  Ccihell,  born  about  1768,  was  first  taught 
at  home  by  tutors;  from  1778  to  1780,  he  was  at  Hampden 
Sidney ;  in  1782,  he  was  going  to  school  to  the  Rev.  Mr. 
John  Holmes  at  Col.  John  Coles'  in  Albemarle ;  from  1784 
to  1787,  he  was  again  at  Hampden  Sidney  College ;  and 
in  1788,  he  was  being  taught  by  Mr.  James  Morrison,  the 
private  tutor  at  Union  Hill. 

Hector  was  "  the  wild  oats  of  the  family."  He  rode  a 
horse  of  Ambrose  Nelson's  to  death,  and  his  father  had  to 
pay  for  it ;  he  got  into  trouble  at  Hampden  Sidney,  and 
his  brother  William  paid  his  way  out ;  he  got  on  a  big 
spree  at  Lucas  Powell's  ordinary  in  Amherst  Court  House, 
and  raised  old  Nick  generally  —  and  so  on.  "He  burnt 
his  candle  at  both  ends,"  and  died  without  surviving  issue. 

He  married  about  1798,  his  double  first  cousin  (26)  Pau- 
lina^, daughter  of  Col.  John^  Cabell.  They  lived  at 
"  Spring  Hill  "  (now  called  "  Montezuma  ").  He  died  Jan- 
uary 6,  1807.  Robert  Rives  was  the  administrator  of  his 
estate.  His  widow  became  the  second  wife  of  Judge  Wil- 
liam Daniel,  Sr.,  of  Lynchburg,  Va. 

15.  Margaret  Jordan  ^  Cabell  was  born  late  in  1769  or 
early  in  1770.  She  was  educated  entirely  by  private  tutors 
in  her  father's  family,  —  Mr.  Fontaine,  Rev.  Mr.  Buchan, 
Mr.  James  Morrison,  and  others.  She  was  taught  music  by 
Mr.  Wall,  and  dancing  by  Mr.  Jeter.  There  were  other 
teachers,  whose  names  are  not  known  to  me.  Margaret,  or 
"  Peggy,"  as  her  father  called  her,  completed  her  education 
early  in  1789. 

She  went  with  her  brother  William  and  his  wife  to  Judge 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        217 

Paul  Carrington's  in  Charlotte,  in  August,  1784.  After 
her  sister,  Paulina  Read,  moved  to  "  Retirement,"  she  paid 
frequent  visits  there.  Early  in  February,  1789,  she  attended 
a  Society  meeting  at  Hampden  Sidney  College,  and  from 
there  she  went  to  Maj.  Read's  in  Charlotte.  On  these  visits 
she  met  with  Mr.  Robert  Rives,  who  was  then  in  business 
with  Blow  &  Barksdale  at  Charlotte  Court  House,  and, 
although  she  had  many  admirers,  she  finally  determined  to 
join  her  fate  with  his.  For  a  time  in  1789,  she  was  en- 
gaged to  the  Rev.  Samuel  Houston  (1758-1839),  who  had 
been  prorninent  in  the  history  of  the  "  State  of  Franklin," 
and  who  was  afterwards  prominent  in  the  history  of  Wash- 
ington College,  and  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  Virginia. 
She  was  evidently  much  attached  to  him,  and  the  fact  that 
Mr.  Rives  finally  won  the  victory  was  largely  owing  to  his 
"  resolute  energy  of  will  and  purpose  which  enabled  him 
always  to  reach  the  goal  he  aimed  at."  As  an  illustration 
of  this,  the  late  Andrew  White,  Esq.,  who  was  in  business 
with  Mr.  Rives  from  1804  to  1845,  told  his  son.  Dr.  John 
F.  White  (who  wrote  it  to  me),  that  "  Avhen  Mr.  Rives  was 
addressing  Miss  Cabell,  he  once  rode  from  Richmond  to 
^  Union  Hill '  to  dinner  on  the  same  day  —  doubtlessly 
dinner  was  late  at  a  fashionable  home,  but  not  so  late  as  is 
the  custom  now,  and  Richmond  was  105  miles  away.  The 
horse  was  put  into  the  stable  and  taken  out  dead."  Mr. 
Rives  kept  fine  horses,  and  during  life  was  a  very  rapid 
rider.  He  frequently  left  his  home  at  Warminster  in  the 
morning;  rode  to  Charlottesville,  about  40  miles  away; 
attended  the  court ;  transacted  his  personal  business  inter- 
ests there,  and  returned  home  that  night.  He  imported 
Gouty  (foaled  1796),  by  Sir  Peter  Teazle,  a  famous  horse 
of  this  section. 

The  following  entries  are  from  Col.  William  Cabell's 
diary  :  — 

"  Jan'y  25th,  1790.  My  daughter  Peggy  was  married  to 
Mr.  Robert  Rives  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Isaac  Darnielle  at  Union 
Hill." 


218  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

"  May  27th.  Paid  Robert  Rives  £242.  —  the  bal.  due 
Alex.  Donald  for  money  sent  me  to  purchase  tobacco  —  pr. 
Mr.  Donald's  order.  For  which  I  have  Mr.  Rives'  receipt 
and  Mr.  Donald's  letter  to  warrant  the  payment." 

"  Au2:ust  20th.  Mr.  Rives  and  wife  visit  Charlotte 
County." 

"  Octr  23rd.  My  daughter  Rives  dehvered  of  a  son  about 
5  o'clock  in  the  evening." 

"  Octr  28th.  Doctor  George  Gilmer  left  this  place  after 
being  here  six  days  with  my  daughter  Rives,  who  is  in  a 
most  distressing"  situation."  This  was  the  celebrated  Dr. 
George  Gilmer,  of  Pen  Park,  Albemarle,  the  father  of  the 
first  Mrs.  William  Wirt.  The  Hfe  of  his  patient  "was 
almost  despaired  of ; "  but  he  came  again  and  again,  giving 
her  the  closest  attention,  and  she  finally  recovered.  The 
child  was  the  first  male  born  in  the  present  "Union  Hill " 
mansion,  who  left  descendants.  He  was  named  for  his 
uncle,  Landon  Cabell,  whose  disappearance  was  then  a 
source  of  great  distress  to  the  family. 

"  Jan'y  19th,  1791.  Mr.  Robert  Rives  and  his  wife  went 
home  [to  Warminster]  after  Hving  with  me  about  twelve 
months."  But,  as  usual  in  those  days,  Mrs.  Rives  came  to 
"  Union  Hill "  for  several  years  to  be  under  the  care  of  her 
mother  at  trying,  and,  in  her  case,  dangerous  times.  And 
in  her  father's  diary  we  find  the  following  entries :  — 

"  Jan'y  9th,  1792.  My  daughter  Peggy  Rives  delivered 
of  a  daughter  about  ten  o'clock  at  night.  [Margaret  J. 
Rives.]  " 

"  May  4th,  1793.  In  the  morning  my  daughter  Peggy 
Rives  delivered  of  a  son."  This  was  William  Cabell  Rives. 
The  rest  of  her  children  were  born  at  "  Warminster  "  and 
at  "  Oak  Ridge." 

In  1790,  Mr.  Rives  had  built  the  central  portion  of  what 
is  now  known  as  "  the  Edgewood  House,"  adjoining  the 
then  village  of  Warminster,  and  this  was  his  home  from 
January,  1791,  to  January,  1803.  It  was  afterwards  sold 
to  the  late  Hon.  Joseph  C.  Cabell,  Sr. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        219 

In  1798,  his  wife  inherited  from  her  father  a  portion  of 
the  Oak  Ridge  estate ;  he  afterwards  purchased  the  remain- 
der from  the  other  heirs,  and  in  1801-1802,  built  thereon 
the  present  "  Oak  Ridge "  mansion,  which  was  the  resi- 
dence of  his  wife  and  himself  from  January,  1803,  as  long 
as  they  lived.  This  fine  estate  was  originally  the  property 
of  John  Harmer  and  Walter  King,  and  was  "  escheated " 
and  sold  during  the  Revolution. 

"  March  23rd,  1780.  Purchased  of  David  Shepherd,  Es- 
cheator,  2380  acres  of  land  in  Amherst  County  on  both 
sides  of  Rucker's  Run,  being  part  of  a  larger  tract  lately 
the  property  of  John  Harmer,  Esq.,  a  British  subject ;  and 
1070  acres  adjoining,  on  the  south  branches  of  Rucker's 
Run,  being  part  of  a  large  tract,  lately  the  projDerty  of 
Walter  King,  Esquire,  a  British  subject.  Purchased  agree- 
able to  two  Acts  of  Assembly  passed  in  the  year  1779. 
The  one  entitled  an  Act  concerning  Escheats  and  Forfeit- 
ures from  British  subjects ;  the  other,  an  Act  concerning 
Escheators.     For  which  land  I  paid  the  sum  of  <£27,140." 

Of  this  amount,  £12,957  was  paid  "  by  orders  on  John 
Hawkins  for  corn,  beeves,  muttons,  etc.,  sold  Alexander 
Gordon  and  the  said  Hawkins  for  the  Barracks  in  Albe- 
marle, where  the  Convention  [Saratoga]  prisoners  were ; " 
£1070  by  a  loan  office  certificate,  and  the  remainder  "by 
Cash."  [John  Harmer  was  of  Bristol,  Eng.  He  came 
to  Virginia,  possibly  with  Dr.  Cabell,  in  1711,  or  soon  after, 
resided  here  for  some  years,  and  then  returned  to  England. 
He  gave  much  of  his  property  in  Virginia  to  George 
Harmer,  as  Walter  King  did  to  Walter  King  Cole,  and  a 
certain  restitution  was  made  to  them  by  acts  of  Assembly 
in  May  and  October,  1780.] 

The  following  obituary  notice  appeared  in  "The  Rich- 
mond Enquirer  "  of  August  30,  1815  :  — 

"  Departed  this  life  in  the  45th  year  of  her  age  on  Satur- 
day morning  the  19th  inst.  [August,  1815]  Mrs.  Margaret 
Rives,  daughter  of  the  late  Col.  William  Cabell  and  consort 
of  Mr.  Robert  Rives  of  the  County  of  Nelson. 


220  THE   CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

"  The  endowments  of  the  deceased  were  of  superior 
order.  Her  mind  was  masculine  and  sentimental,  her  heart 
generous,  benevolent  and  kind.  Charity,  too,  had  its  place 
in  her  bosom.  Although  surrounded  by  wealth,  although 
abounding  in  affluence,  self -enjoyment  was  the  least  of  her 
considerations.  How  to  be  useful  to  her  family,  how  to 
render  services  to  the  indigent,  were  the  first  wishes  of  her 
soul.  She  was  the  most  affectionate  of  mothers,  the  most 
devoted  of  wives,  and  among  the  best  of  friends  to  the 
poor.  The  superiority  of  her  intellect  did  not  desert  her  in 
her  afflicting  and  incurable  disease.  She  evinced  in  her 
last  moments  a  resolution  and  fortitude  seldom  witnessed 
in  her  sex.  She  was  resio*ned  to  the  will  of  God  and  recon- 
oiled  to  the  mandate  of  death." 

Robert  Rives,  born  March  11,  1764,  in  Sussex  County, 
Va.,  joined  the  army  in  1781,  and  served  as  a  private  at 
Yorktown ;  after  the  war  he  entered  the  store  of  Col.  Rich- 
ard Baker  at  South  Quay.  The  late  Hon.  Sterling  Clai- 
borne, of  Amherst,  used  to  say  that  this  was  done  against 
his  mother's  wishes,  but  her  old  friend  and  legal  adviser, 
Col.  Augustine  Claiborne,  told  her  to  let  him  alone,  as  he 
felt  sure  that  he  was  amply  able,  not  only  to  make  his  own 
way  in  the  world,  but  to  achieve  fortune  and  fame  also. 

In  the  course  of  a  few  years  he  entered  the  store  of  Blow 
&  Barksdale,  at  Charlotte  Court  House.  Here  he  is  said 
to  have  worked  very  faithfully  and  energetically,  laying  the 
foundation  of  his  commercial  education. 

In  the  autumn  of  1789,  Mr.  Alexander  Donald  (the 
friend  of  Jefferson),  of  the  firm  of  Donald  &  Burton,  Lon- 
don, England,  spent  some  time  at  "  Union  Hill."  He  was 
very  favorably  impressed  with  the  tobacco  grown  in  this 
section  for  shipping  purposes,  and  induced  Col.  William 
Cabell,  Sr.,  to  arrange  to  have  all  the  good  tobacco  that 
came  to  Warminster  warehouse  bought  up  for  him.  Mr. 
Rives  married  Col.  Cabell's  daughter  in  January,  1790. 
Prior  to  May  27  following.  Col.  Cabell  turned  this  valuable 
agency  over  to  him,  and  wrote  a  letter  of  recommendation 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        221 

to  which  Mr.  Donald  replied  from  Richmond  on  June  18 : 
"  I  think  as  you  do  of  Mr.  Rives,  and  as  you  have  promised 
your  friendly  assistance  to  him,  I  cannot  doubt  of  his  con- 
duct answering  my  expectations." 

The  house  of  Donald  &  Burton  was  one  of  the  largest 
commission  houses  in  London. 

Mr.  Rives  had  commenced  business  on  his  own  account 
at  Warminster  before  his  marriage.  After  accejDting  this 
agency  he  located  stores,  from  time  to  time,  as  the  opportu- 
nity presented  itself,  all  over  this  shijjping  tobacco  section, 
wherever  there  was  a  public  warehouse  for  the  inspection  of 
tobacco.  At  Warminster,  at  New  Market  (now  Norwood 
station),  at  Diuguidsville  (now  Bent  Creek,  near  Bolton  sta- 
tion), at  Lynchburg,  at  Milton  in  Albemarle,  at  Ca  Ira  in 
Cumberland,  etc.  Prior  to  1794,  these  stores  were  con- 
ducted on  his  individual  account ;  but  after  this  the  busi- 
ness increased  so  rapidly  and  was  so  scattered  that  partners 
were  taken  in  from  time  to  time.  The  object  was  "  to  kill 
two  birds  with  one  stone :  "  to  buy  the  tobacco  and  pay  for 
it  in  merchandise  as  far  as  possible,  to  obtain  the  English 
commission  on  the  tobacco  purchased,  and  a  profit  on  the 
goods  sold. 

The  warehouse  at  New  Market  belonged  to  Col.  William 
Cabell,  the  elder.  In  1794,  Mr.  Rives  bought  720  hogs- 
heads of  the  tobacco  sold  there,  and,  on  September  27,  he 
paid  Col.  Cabell  .£54  for  the  warehouse  charges  thereon. 
In  the  same  year,  Mr.  Rives  bought  as  much  more  tobacco 
at  each  of  five  other  warehouses,  and  his  purchases  increased 
from  year  to  year,  until  his  partners  and  himself  virtually 
controlled  the  tobacco  trade  of  aU  this  section. 

He  transacted  a  great  deal  of  business  with  Mr.  James 
Brown,  of  Richmond,  from  1790,  both  being  agents  in  Vir- 
ginia for  the  house  of  Donald  &  Burton,  London,  and 
they  afterwards  became  partners,  under  the  style  Brown  & 
Rives,  in  one  of  the  foremost  commission  houses  in  the 
State. 

Mr.  Burton,  of  the  London  firm,  died  about  1807,  which 


222  THE   CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

made  necessary  a  full  adjustment  of  all  accounts  in  the 
Rives  branch  in  America,  and  the  settlement  was  satisfac- 
tory to  all  parties. 

The  firm  was  doing  an  especially  large  business  about 
1809-1812,  owning  or  employing  many  ships  in  trade  with 
the  West  Indies,  England,  Scotland,  and  Spain.  The  mem- 
bers in  Virginia  were  Thomas  Higginbotham,  James  Brown, 
and  Robert  Rives. 

On  February  14,  1812,  the  General  Assembly  of  Vir- 
ginia incorporated  "  The  Nelson  and  Albemarle  Union  Fac- 
tory, for  the  laudable  purpose  of  manufacturing  wool  and 
cotton."  Mr.  Rives  was  much  interested  in  this  enterprise. 
In  May  following,  himself  and  others  bought  of  Col.  Wil- 
liam Cabell,  Jr.,  the  present  Variety  Mills  estate,  on  which 
Col.  Cabell  had  already  a  corn-mill,  a  tannery,  and  a  shoe- 
maker's shop,  and  to  which  the  company  soon  added  a  large 
flour-mill,  a  saw-mill,  a  store,  and  the  "  Union  Factory  for 
wool  and  cotton."  In  the  course  of  time  Mr.  Rives  bought 
up  the  shares  of  the  others  and  became  the  owner  of  the 
whole  plant. 

During  the  Peninsular  war  (about  1813,  I  think),  James 
Brown  made  a  large  shipment  of  flour  on  his  own  account 
to  Cadiz  in  Sj)ain,  which  was  lost,  and  caused  his  failure. 
In  settling  the  business  of  Brown  and  Rives,  a  great  law- 
suit arose  between  the  parties.  Mr.  Chapman  Johnson  and 
his  son,  William  C.  Rives  (then  a  young  man),  attended  to 
the  suit  for  Mr.  Rives,  and  gained  it  after  great  alarm, 
the  amount  involved  being  over  $100,000,  a  large  sum  in 
those  days. 

After  this  suit,  and  after  the  death  of  his  wife,  he  grad- 
ually retired  from  active  commercial  affairs,  and  began  to 
devote  himself  more  and  more  to  his  farms ;  but  during  life 
he  retained  an  interest  in  (furnished  funds  to  partners  in) 
the  country  stores  at  Bent  Creek,  Variety  Mills,  and  possi- 
bly elsewhere,  and  in  the  commission  business  in  Richmond, 
of  Rives,  Clarke  &  Co.,  to  the  retirement  of  Mr.  Clarke, 
then  Rives  &  Ferguson  to  the  death  of  Mr.  Ferguson  in 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        223 

1833,  and  then  Rives  &  Harris  to  the  death  of  Mr.  Rives  in 
1845. 

Mr.  Rives  was  a  communicant  of  the  Protestant  Episco- 
pal Church,  and  in  1833  or  1834  he  built  a  brick  church  for 
that  denomination  on  land  given  by  him  just  west  of  Oak 
Ridge.  It  was  long  called  Rives'  Church,  and  it  should 
have  been  preserved  as  a  memorial  to  him.  It  is  now  called 
"  Trinity  Church." 

"  He  was  a  small  man  about  5  feet  9  inches  high,  well 
set ;  very  neat  in  dress ;  very  inquisitive  and  talkative  ;  very 
polite ;  very  hospitable ;  very  much  respected  by  all  who 
knew  him ;  and  very  much  beloved  by  his  slaves,  of  whom 
he  owned  a  large  number." 

In  the  division  of  his  father's  estate  after  the  death  of 
his  mother  early  in  the  present  century,  he  received  a  good 
many  slaves,  and  their  advent  in  this  region  was  an  event 
in  colored  society.  In  many  respects  the  low-country 
negroes  differed  from  those  of  the  mountains,  and  these 
were  long  designated  in  the  county  as  "  Sussex  negroes ;  " 
indeed,  the  grandson  of  one  of  them  living  near  me  is  even 
now  known  as  "  Sussex  Georgfe." 

Mr.  Rives  owned  a  large  estate  in  Albemarle,  of  which 
I  know  but  little.  He  also  owned  between  10,000  and 
15,000  acres  of  land  in  Nelson,  all  of  which,  I  believe,  has 
passed  out  of  the  hands  of  his  descendants,  and  of  these  I 
am  the  only  one  now  living  in  the  county  which  was  for  so 
long  his  home. 

He  was  one  of  the  first  justices,  and  was  for  many  years 
the  presiding  magistrate  of  the  county.  Although  remark- 
ably well  versed  in  pohtical  information,  and  an  ardent  poli- 
tician, he  yet  never  would  allow  himself  to  be  a  candidate 
for  a  political  office,  and  the  magistracy  was  almost  the  only 
public  office  held  by  him.  Many  thought,  however,  that  he 
would  have  been  as  successful  in  the  political  arena  as  he 
was  as  a  merchant  and  farmer.  Many  of  the  old  people 
have  told  me  that  they  thought  he  would  have  been  more 
successful  in  politics  even  than  his  son  William.  This  was 
the  opinion  of  his  contemporaries. 


224  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

The  following  obituary  notice  of  him  appeared  soon  after 
his  death :  — 

"  On  Sunday  the  9th  of  March,  1845,  at  Oak  Ridge,  his 
residence  in  the  county  of  Nelson,  Robert  Rives,  Esq.,  in 
the  81st  year  of  his  age.  All  who  knew  this  venerable  and 
remarkable  man  (and  he  was  well  known  personally  or  by 
reputation  throughout  the  State)  will  unite  in  the  senti- 
ment that  few,  if  any,  in  their  day  and  generation,  have  led 
more  useful  and  honorable  lives,  or  left  behind  them  more 
enduring  testimonials  of  the  high  moral  and  intellectual 
qualities,  which  distinguished  his  career  on  Earth.  Bred 
in  the  school  of  strenuous  and  self-denying  virtue,  which 
ushered  in  the  era  of  our  Revolutionary  struggle,  in  the 
closing  scene  of  which  he  was  just  old  enough  to  take  a 
part  as  a  volunteer  on  the  plains  of  Yorktown,  he  moved 
forward  in  the  paths  of  Hfe  with  that  firm  and  undeviating 
step,  and  with  that  resolute  energy  of  will  and  purpose, 
which  enabled  him  always  to  reach  the  goal  he  aimed  at. 
Throwing  himself  at  an  unusually  early  period  of  hfe,  with 
a  manly  self-reliance,  on  the  resources  of  his  own  industry 
and  genius,  he  engaged,  w^hile  yet  a  youth,  in  commercial 
pursuits,  which  he  continued  to  prosecute  for  many  years 
on  a  scale  of  extended  enterjDrise,  amid  the  vicissitudes  and 
hazards  of  the  unsettled  state  of  the  commercial  world 
which  attended  the  period  of  the  wars  of  the  French  Revo- 
lution, and  with  a  skill,  sagacity,  judgment,  and  success, 
which  placed  him  deservingly  in  the  first  rank  of  American 
Merchants. 

"  Retiring  from  the  more  active  scenes  of  commercial 
adventure,  while  his  faculties  of  mind  and  body  were  yet  in 
full  vigor,  he  devoted  the  last  thirty  years  of  his  life  mainly 
to  the  care  and  improvement  of  a  large  landed  estate,  in 
which  the  same  perseverance,  guided  by  intelligence,  hber- 
ahty,  and  taste,  was  crowned  with  like  success.  His  coun- 
try seat,  which  he  loved  to  beautify  and  surround  with 
every  useful  and  tasteful  improvement,  was  the  abode  of  an 
elegant  and  munificent  hospitality.     Nowhere  were  its  rites 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        225 

administered  with  a  more  genuine  and  warm-hearted  Vir- 
ginia Welcome,  as  the  many  who  have  received  and  enjoyed 
that  Welcome,  can  testify. 

"  But  the  crowning  grace  of  his  life  was  that  which  gilded 
with  a  heavenly  sunset  its  closing  scenes.  In  the  midst  of 
the  blessings,  with  which  he  was  surrounded,  he  recognized 
the  bountiful  Hand,  from  which  they  all  proceeded.  He 
professed  the  religion  of  our  blessed  Lord  and  Saviour, 
Jesus  Christ,  and  '  the  peace,  which  passeth  all  understand- 
ing '  was  brightly  and  abundantly  manifested  in  the  seren- 
ity, elevated  composure,  and  divinely  inspired  hopes  and 
faith  of  his  last  moments.  Surrounded  by  his  numerous 
family,  and  bestowing  his  blessing  on  each  and  all  of  them, 
he  was  gently  gathered,  like  the  Patriarchs  of  old,  to  his 
fathers,  in  favor  with  God,  and  in  charity  Avith  all  the 
world." 

He  was  a  sou  of  William  Rives,  of  Sussex  County,  Va. 
(by  his  wife,  Lucy  Shands),  who  died  about  1775.  He  was 
of  the  same  family  as  Hon.  Francis  E.  Rives,  M.  C.  Their 
ancestors  came  in  the  cavalier  emigration  of  1649-1659 
from  Blandf ord  in  England,  and  settled  first  at  or  near  Bland- 
ford  in  Surry  County,  Va. ;  from  thence  they  went  to  Sus- 
sex, Prince  George,  and  Brunswick  counties,  Va.,  and  to 
Granville  County,  N.  C,  owning  many  thousand  acres  of 
land  by  purchase  and  by  patent.  There  is  a  good  pedigree 
of  the  English  branch  of  the  family  in  Hutchins'  "  History 
of  Dorset,"  3d  edition,  vol.  iv.  pp.  96,  97,  to  which  I  have 
added  somewhat  from  other  sources.  Mary  Rives  married 
WilHam  Eaton,  a  vestryman  of  old  Blandford  church  near 
Petersburg,  and  they  removed  in  1725,  with  other  members 
of  their  families,  to  North  Carolina,  where  Eaton  became  a 
very  prominent  man.  Their  son,  Hon.  Thomas  Eaton,  mar- 
ried Anna  Bland,  a  sister  of  Frances  Bland,  who  married 
(first)  John  Randolph  (and  became  the  mother  of  John 
Randolph  of  Roanoke),  and  (second)  Judge  St.  George 
Tucker,  and  became  the  mother  of  Judges  Henry  St. 
George  and  Nathaniel  Beverley  Tucker. 


226  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

Lucy  Shands  (the  wife  of  William  Rives),  born  January  ^, 
17^,  was  a  daughter  of  WiUiam  and  PrisciUa  Shands,  of 
Sussex  County,  Va.  "  The  first  Shands  came  from  Eng- 
land, a  young  man,  to  Va.  with  his  Uncle  the  Rev.  James 
Minoe."  The  lands  of  the  Rives  and  Shands  families  lying 
east  and  southeast  of  Petersburg  were  battle-grounds  dur- 
ing the  late  war.  One  of  them  writes  :  "  When  I  returned 
to  my  farm  after  the  war,  there  was  not  a  house,  not  a  tree, 
scarcely  a  bush  on  the  place.  Almost  the  only  wood  to 
be  found  was  the  pieces  of  plank  at  the  head  of  Federal 
graves." 

15.  Margaret  Jordan^  CabeU  and  Robert  Rives  had 
issue :  — 

68.  i.  Landon  C*. 

69.  ii.  Margaret  J.^ 

70.  iii.  WiUiam  C.^ 

71.  iv.  Lucy  S.^. 

72.  V.  PauHna  C.^ 

73.  vi.  Robert  ^ 

74.  vii.  Henry  ^ 

viii.  James  B.,  b.  February  5,  1801 ;  d.  July  23,  1816. 

75.  ix.  George  ^ 

X.  EHzabeth,  b.  December  20,  1803 ;  d.  September 
15,  1804. 

76.  xi.  Alexander  *  Rives. 

16.  Elizabeth^  Cabell  was  born  either  in  1774  or  1776. 
She  was  educated  with  her  elder  sister  Margaret.  On  April 
14,  1791,  her  father  made  this  entry  in  his  diary  :  "  Clem- 
ent Carrington  informed  me  of  his  intention  to  pay  his 
addresses  to  my  daughter  Betsy."  Many  years  afterwards 
(about  1845,  I  think),  when  Col.  Clement  was  very  old,  the 
late  N.  F.  Cabell  asked  him  if  he  remembered  his  courtship. 
He  said  :  "  I  do  —  as  if  it  were  on  yesterday  !  She  declined 
me  !  She  said  she  was  too  young  to  leave  her  parents  !  I 
stood  up  and  took  my  stand  in  front  of  her,  and  said,  ^  Ma- 
dame !  I  will  he  parents  to  you  !  '  But  I  could  make  no 
impression  upon  her,  and  I  now  suspect  that  her  heart  was 
already  engaged  elsewhere." 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        227 

She  was  married  at  Union  Hill,  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  O'Neal, 
on  April  9,  1795,  to  her  first  cousin  (27),  William  H.^ 
Cabell,  son  of  Col.  Nicholas^  Cabell  the  elder,  of  Liberty 
Hall.  The  young  couple  lived  at  "  Union  Hill  "  —  and  all 
of  her  children  were  born  there  —  until  January  29,  1801, 
when  they  moved  to  their  own  home  at  "  Midway."  Her 
father  gave  her  lands  adjoining  those  of  her  brother  Lan- 
don,  which  were  inherited  by  her  son  Abraham,  who  sold 
them  to  Mr.  Robert  Rives,  Sr.,  who  bequeathed  them  to  his 
son  George,  who  afterwards  subdivided  and  sold  them  to 
different  parties.  Montreal  (R.  R.)  station  is  located  on  a 
part  of  them. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  Cabell  died  of  consumption  on  November 
5,  1801,  and  was  buried  at  "  Union  Hill."  Her  two  sons 
were  placed  under  their  grandmother's  care,  at  "  Union 
Hill,"  and  her  sister,  Mrs.  Read  (afterwards  known  as 
"  Aunt  Le  Grand "),  took  charge  of  her  little  daughter. 
See  the  sketch  of  her  husband,  William  H.^  Cabell  (27), 
for  her  children. 

III.   COL.   JOSEPH  2  CABELL'S   CHILDREN. 

17.  Elizabeth^  Cahell  (1st),  born  in  1753,  and  named 
for  her  father's  mother.  She  was  married  in  1769  at 
"  Winton,"  in  Amherst  County,  to  Capt.  William  Meggin- 
son,  a  brother  to  Martha,  who  married  WiUiam  Horsley  (6). 
They  resided  on  her  husband's  estate  in  Buckingham,  oppo- 
site the  present  Greenway  station.  She  died  there  (at  "  Clo- 
ver Plains")  at  the  birth  of  her  only  child.  "Jan'y  31st, 
1771.  Went  to  see  my  niece  Betsey  Megginson  interred." 
(Col.  William  Cabell's  Diary.)  "January  31st,  1771.  Jo- 
seph's daughter  Betty  Megginson  was  interred."  (Dr.  Wil- 
liam Cabell's  Note-book.)  Capt.  WiUiam  Megginson  was  a 
large  landowner.  He  died  August  31,  1776,  in  the  Revo- 
lutionary army,  leaving  an  only  child. 

77.  i.  Joseph  Cabell  *  Megginson. 

18.  Josej^h^  Cabell,  Jr.,  was  born  January  6,  1762; 
was  first  taught  by  tutors;    was  at  Hampden  Sidney  in 


228  THE   CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

1778  and  1779 ;  and  at  William  and  Mary  College  from 
May  4,  1779,  to  1781.  Although  his  name  does  not  ap- 
pear in  Mr.  Grigsby's  list,  he  was  certainly  a  member  of 
the  Phi  Beta  Kai^pa  Society.  His  son,  Gen.  Benjamin  Ca- 
bell, said  that  the  college  boys  formed  a  company,  of  which 
Joseph,  Jr.,  was  a  member,  and  that  this  company  was 
attached  to  the  regiment  of  Col.  Joseph  Cabell,  the  elder, 
at  Yorktown. 

He  was  married  (first)  at  Bollingbrooke  House  (the  resi- 
dence of  the  elder  widow  Boiling),  in  Petersburg,  Va.,  in 
1783,  to  Miss  Pocahontas  Rebecca  Boiling,  daughter  of 
Col.  Robert  Boiling,  of  Chellowe,  Buckingham  County,  Va. 
(by  his  first  wife,  Susan  Watson,  of  "  The  Brooke,"  in  Hen- 
rico County).  They  lived  at  "  Repton,"  across  James  River 
from  the  present  Midway  station.  He  was  called  "  Repton 
Joe  Cabell,"  to  distinguish  him  from  other  Cabells  of  the 
same  name.  He  was  a  captain  prior  to  September  10, 
1787 ;  was  one  of  the  trustees  for  the  town  of  Greensville, 
in  the  county  of  Buckingham,  in  1788,  and  for  Warminster 
Academy,  in  the  county  of  Amherst,  in  1791-1795.  He 
owned  a  noted  horse,  called  "  Hyder  Ali,"  which  he  sold  to 
Col.  Samuel  J.  Cabell  in  1793. 

His  first  wife  died  at  "  Chellowe,"  while  on  a  visit  to  her 
mother,  in  1803, 

He  married  (second),  at  "  The  Retreat "  (her  father's  then 
residence  on  the  then  line  between  Buckingham  and  Camp- 
bell counties),  on  October  31,  1804,  Mrs.  Anne  E.  Duval 
(born  at  "  Red  Oak  "),  daughter  of  Archibald  Boiling  and 
his  wife,  Jane  Randolph,  and  first  cousin  to  his  (Col.  Joe's) 
first  wife.  She  was  the  widow  of  Samuel  Shepherd  Duval, 
Esq.,  by  whom  she  had  two  sons,  Samuel  S.  and  Archibald 
B.  Duval,  both  of  whom  were  living  in  Barren  County, 
Ky.,  in  1855. 

Joseph  Cabell,  of  Repton,  devoted  himself  to  his  farm  and 
domestic  pursuits  with  success ;  but  he  finally  determined 
to  follow  his  sisters  to  Kentucky,  —  "  the  then  promised 
land," — and  sold  "Repton"  to  Gov.  William  H.  Cabell, 
who  changed  the  name  to  "  Montevideo." 


«-        THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        229 

He  emigrated  with  his  family  to  Kentucky  in  1811; 
settled  in  Henderson  County,  and  died  there  on  August  31, 
1831.  His  widow  died  at  "  The  Retreat,"  in  Buckino-ham, 
while  on  a  visit  to  Virginia,  on  January  26,  1834. 

Col.  Robert  Boiling,  of  "  Chellowe  "  (the  father  of  Col. 
Joseph  Cabell,  Jr.'s  first  wife),  was  born  August  17,  1738. 
"He  was  educated  at  Wakefield,  in  England,  by  the  cele- 
brated Dr.  Clarke.  He  was  learned  in  many  languages, 
and  wrote  the  '  Memoirs  of  the  Boiling  Family '  in  the 
French  tongue,  a  translation  of  which,  by  John  Robert- 
son, was  edited  and  printed  by  T.  H.  Wynne,  Richmond, 
1869."  He  was  "  a  lover  of  wisdom  and  esteemed  it  more 
precious  than  rubies."  He  was  high  sheriff  of  Bucking- 
ham County  in  1767,  and  is  said  to  have  been  a  member  of 
the  House  of  Burgesses.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Con- 
vention of  July,  1775,  and  died  at  Williamsburg  while  in 
attendance  on  that  body.  He  was  the  son  of  Maj.  John 
Boiling,  born  in  1700 ;  county  lieutenant  of  Chesterfield ; 
justice  of  the  peace ;  and  "  for  thirty  years  a  member  of 
the  House  of  Burgesses." 

Between  1740  and  1751,  he  entered  for  over  20,000  acres 
of  land  in  the  present  counties  of  Amherst,  Buckingham, 
Appomattox,  and  Campbell  for  himself  and  sons,  together 
with  two  small  entries  for  Maj.  Richard  Kennon  and  Mr. 
Thomas  Edwards.  Boiling's  Creek,  south  of  Lynchburg, 
in  Amherst  County,  was  named  for  him.  He  married,  Au- 
gust 1,  1728,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Dr.  Archibald  Blair 
(of  the  House  of  Burgesses),  and  niece  of  Commissary 
James  Blair,  D.  D.,  founder  of  William  and  Mary  College. 
He  died  September  6,  1757.  He  was  the  son  of  Col.  John 
Boiling,  of  "  Cobbs  "  (born  1676),  "  who  engaged  in  com- 
merce, and  conducted  an  extensive  and  gainful  trade  with 
his  countrymen,  and  a  yet  larger  one  with  the  Indians 
(equally  his  countrymen),"  He  was  a  member  of  the 
House  of  Burgesses ;  married,  in  1697,  Mary,  daughter  of 
Richard  Kennon,  of  "Conjuror's  Neck"  (also  a  member  of 
the  House  of  Burgesses),  and  died  in  1729.     He  was  son 


230  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

of  Col.  Robert  Boiling  (1646-1709),  the  emigrant,  by  his 
wife,  Jane  Rolfe,  daughter  of  Thomas  Rolfe,  son  of  John 
Rolf e,  by  his  wife,  generally  incorrectly  called  "  Pocahon- 
tas," which  was  not  her  name ;  her  Indian  name  was  "  Ma- 
toaka,"  and  her  baptismal  name  was  "  Rebecca."  She  was 
a  daughter  of  "  Wahunsenacawh,"  the  chief  of  the  Pow- 
hatan tribe  of  Indians,  commonly  called  "  King  Powhatan" 
by  the  English. 

"  Matoaka  "  was  "  the  first  fruit  of  the  Eno-lish  church 

o 

among  the  Virginians,"  and  as  such  occupies  a  position  of 
unique  attraction  in  our  earhest  annals.  Her  husband, 
John  Rolfe,  was  one  of  the  founders  of  Virginia.  He 
wrote  one  of  the  most  accurate  accounts  of  the  enterprise, 
and  devoted  his  life  to  the  establishment  of  the  colony. 

Archibald  Boiling,  of  "Red  Oak,"  and  of  "The  Re- 
treat," the  father  of  the  second  wife  of  Col.  Joseph  Cabell, 
Jr.,  is  said,  in  the  work  just  referred  to,  to  have  been  born 
March  20,  1750.  But  on  the  9th  of  May,  1743,  Maj. 
John  Boiling  entered  for  his  son  Archibald  600  acres  of 
land  on  Possum  Creek  of  the  Fluvanna  (James)  River. 
So  the  major  must  have  had  another  son  by  this  name,  who 
died  young,  or  the  foregoing  date  of  birth  is  wrong,  as, 
although  entries  were  made  in  the  names  of  infants,  we 
cannot  suppose  the  major  to  have  taken  time  so  vehemently 
by  the  forelock  as  to  make  the  entry  seven  years  hefore  the 
child  was  born. 

Archibald  Bollino-  died  about  1829.  He  was  a  brother 
of  Col.  Robert  Boiling,  of  "  Chellowe,"  aforesaid,  and  his 
ancestry  was  the  same.  He  was  married  four  times.  The 
mother  of  Mrs.  Anne  Everard  Duval  Cabell  was  his  second 
wife,  Jane  Randolph,  the  daughter  of  Richard  Randolph,  of 
Curls  (member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses),  and  his  wife, 
Anne  Meade.  Which  Richard  was  an  uncle  of  John  Ran- 
dolph of  Roanoke,  and  a  son  of  Col.  Richard  Randolph,  of 
"Curies"  (1690-1748),  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses, 
and  treasurer  of  Virginia,  who  married  Jane  Boiling  (1703- 
1766),  the  daughter  of  Col.  John  BoUing,  of  Cobbs  (1676- 
1729),  aforesaid. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN  231 

Anne  Meade  was  the  daughter  of  David  Meade  by  his 
wife,  Susanna  Everard,  the  daughter  of  Sir  Richard  Ever- 
ard,  governor  of  North  CaroHna,  by  his  wife,  Susanna  Kid- 
der, daughter  of  Rt.  Rev.  Richard  Kidder,  D.  D.,  bishop  of 
Bath  and  Wells,  England. 

Sir  Richard  Everard  was  the  son  of  Sir  Hugh  Everard, 
the  son  of  Sir  Richard  Everard,  the  son  of  Sir  Richard 
Everard  (created  a  baronet  by  Charles  I.  in  January,  1629) 
by  his  wife,  Joan  Barrington,  daughter  of  Sir  Francis  Bar- 
rington  and  his  wife,  Joan  Cromwell,  aunt  of  the  Protector, 
Oliver  Cromwell,  and  daughter  of  Sir  Henry  Cromwell,  the 
son  of  Sir  Richard  Williams  (eldest  son  of  Morgan  Wil- 
liams by  his  wife,  Catherine  Cromwell,  sister  of  Thomas 
Cromwell,  the  great  Earl  of  Essex),  who  assumed  at  the 
desire  of  Henry  VIII.  the  surname  of  his  uncle,  Crom- 
well, and,  through  the  influence  of  that  once  powerful 
relative  himself  and  his  family,  obtained  great  wealth  and 
station.^ 

18.  Joseph  ^  and  Pocahontas  Rebecca  BoUing  Cabell  had 
issue :  — 

78.  i.    Sophronisba  E.*. 

79.  ii.    Sarah  B.^ 

iii.  Robert  BoUing  (1st),  b.  in  1787 ;  M.  D. ;  m.  in 
1808,  Ehza  Walthall,  of  Chesterfield  County, 
Va. ;  d.  October  7,  1808,  s.  p. 

80.  iv.   Joseph  M.^ 

V.    Archibald,  d.  infant. 

81.  vi.    Edward  Blair*. 

82.  vii.    Benjamin  W.  S.*. 

viii.  Archibald  B.*,  b.  at  Repton  in  May,  1795 ;  lost 
his  sight  in  early  youth ;  a  musical  genius, 
excelling  on  all  instruments,  but  especially 
the  violin  and  harp ;  d.  in  1822  in  Henderson 
County,  Ky.,  unmarried. 
ix.    Nicholas,  d.  infant. 

83.  X.    Mary  P.  R.^ 

1  See  The  Genesis  of  the  United  States,  vol.  ii.  pp.  826,  868. 


232  THE   CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

18.  Joseph^  and  (his  2d  wife)  Anne  Everard  Boiling 
(Duval)  Cabell  had  issue :  — 

84.  xi.   Jane  Randolph^. 

85.  xii.    John  Breckinridge*. 

86.  xiii.   Elizabeth  R.*. 

87.  xiv.    Robert  B."  (2d). 

88.  XV.    George  Washington  *. 

xvi.  Joseph  H.,  b.  November  23,  1815 ;  d.  May  15, 
1816. 

xvii.  William  Nicholas,  b.  November  1, 1817  ;  d.  Sep- 
tember 10,  1820. 

xviii.  Richard  R.,  b.  March  9,  1822  j  d.  October  9, 
1843,  unmarried. 

89.  xix.    Mary  A.  H.*. 

XX.  George  C,  b.  April  16,  1825 ;  d.  infant. 
And  several  others  who  died  in  early  infancy 
without  names.  "  There  are  said  to  have 
been  by  both  wives  39  children  in  all." 

19.  3Iarij  HojiJcins  ^  Cabell,  born  February  22,  1769, 
was  married  at  her  father's  residence  to  John  Breckinridge 
on  June  28,  1785.  They  lived  first  at  "  The  Glebe,"  in 
Albemarle  County,  a  few  miles  northwest  of  Warren.  They 
moved  to  Kentucky  in  1793,  two  years  after  its  admission 
to  the  Union,  and  three  years  before  Wayne's  treaty 
secured  to  the  white  settlers  peace  with  the  Indian  tribes. 
"Before  the  crack  of  the  rifle  or  the  war-whoop  of  the 
Indian  had  died  away  in  that  still  bloody  ground,  an 
assault  was  made  on  Bryant  Station  Block-House,  only  5 
miles  distant,  just  at  the  moment  at  which,  having  plodded 
his  weary  way  through  the  old  wilderness  track  (for  there 
was  no  road),  he  arrived  at  Lexington  with  his  young  wife 
and  three  infant  children.  When  the  news  came  of  the 
defeat  of  the  Indians,  the  hearts  of  all  were  raised  in  thank- 
fulness to  a  merciful  God.  These  facts  were  stated  in  a 
letter  from  Mr.  Breckinridge  written  in  1793  to  Joseph 
CabeU,  of  Repton,  in  which  he  refers  to  the  almost  defense- 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        233 

less  state  of  Lexington  at  that  time."  "  He  was  amply 
rewarded  for  his  enterprise,  for  emigrating  at  that  early 
day  enabled  him  to  acquire  a  princely  domain  of  30,000 
acres  of  land  for  his  descendants."  After  the  death  of  her 
husband  in  1806,  Mrs.  Breckinridge  visited  her  relatives  in 
Virginia  at  least  five  times ;  her  last  visit,  I  think,  was  in 
1838.  She  died  in  Louisville,  Ky.,  at  the  residence  of  her 
son.  Rev.  W.  L.  Breckinridge,  on  March  26,  1858,  in  her 
ninetieth  year. 

Her  old  Kentucky  home,  near  Lexington,  in  Fayette 
County,  was  called  "  Cabell's  Dale." 

The  Rev.  Dr.  E.  P.  Humphrey,  in  a  discourse  delivered 
in  1876,  referring  to  Mrs.  Breckinridge,  said :  "  Of  the 
mother  upon  whom  the  care  of  this  family  was  laid,  nothing 
more  need  be  said  than  this :  She  reared  her  sons  and 
daughters  in  such  a  manner  as  to  prepare  them  for  the 
career  which  was  set  before  them.  The  four  sons  were 
noted  for  their  will  power  to  the  end  of  their  lives.  It  is 
right  to  imagine  that  this  quality  in  their  boyhood  took  the 
form  of  willfulness.  If  this  was  so,  they  needed  restraint  as 
well  as  guidance.  All  honor  to  the  venerable  mother,  who 
was  made  equal  to  her  task  by  extraordinary  firmness,  judg- 
ment almost  unerring,  and  a  maternal  tenderness  whereby 
she  was  able  to  reconcile  in  her  household  the  law  of  right 
obedience  with  the  law  of  love." 

MRS.  MARY  H.   BRECKINRIDGE. 

"  Ah  !  never  pen  in  woman's  praise  I  ween 

More  fitly  than  for  thine,  0  matron  pure ! 

Was  put  to  paper ;  thou  who  did  secure 
The  love  of  loving  hearts  from  morn  till  e'en 
Of  lengthened  life,  and  still  in  memory  green 

Thy  acts,  being  seven  ages,  must  endure  ; 

Wife's,  mother's,  friend's  thy  role,  and  no  one  truer 
To  self  and  trust  through  every  changing  scene,  — 
Cornelia  of  our  land,  who  down  the  vale 

Of  years  was  hostess  of  that  dear  abode, 


234  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

Thy  husband  named  it  for  thee  Cabell's  Dale ; 

Thy  sons  with  mother's  teaching  upward  trod, 
Armed  with  this  precept  as  with  coat  of  mail, 

*  Fear  not  the  face  of  man  but  only  God.'  "  ^ 

R.  Richardson. 

John  Breckinridge  was  born  near  Staunton,  Va.,  Decem- 
ber 2,  1760,  removed  with  his  parents  to  Botetourt,  and 
was  educated  at  "  The  Augusta  Academy "  (now  Wash- 
ington and  Lee  University),  and  at  William  and  Mary  Col- 
lege. While  at  the  college,  and  before  he  was  twenty-one 
years  of  age,  he  was  elected  by  the  people  of  Botetourt  to 
represent  that  county  in  the  House  of  Delegates.  He  was 
a  subaltern  in  the  Virginia  militia  in  the  latter  part  of  the 
Revolution.  He  was  really  acting  as  a  lawyer  on  April  14, 
1780  (before  he  was  twenty-one),  when  he  was  at  "  Union 
Hill "  attending  to  some  business  for  Mrs.  Howard,  before 
Col.  William  Cabell,  Sr.,  justice  of  the  peace.  On  April 
20,  1781,  Hon.  John  Brown  (grandfather  of  the  late  Hon. 
B.  Gratz  Brown)  wrote  from  Botetourt  to  his  brother,  Phi 
Beta  Kcqyj^a,  Mr.  William  Cabell  (No.  11),  and  sent  the 
letter  to  "Union  Hill"  by  "Mr.  John  Brackenridge," 
whom  Mr.  Cabell  was  to  assist  in  some  business  connected 
with  the  Howard  estate,  near  the  present  Howardsville,  and 
not  far  from  the  "  Sion  Hill "  estate  of  Col.  Joseph  Cabell 
the  elder,  and  I  infer  that  he  first  met  his  future  wife  while 
attending  to  this  business.  "  June  28,  1785.  Polly  Cabell 
was  married  to  John  Brackenridge."  (William  Cabell's 
Diary.)  The  young  couple  settled  at  "  The  Glebe  "  in 
Albemarle,  an  estate  given  to  them  by  Col.  Joseph  Cabell. 
Mr.  Breckinridge  was  Col.  William  Cabell,  Sr.'s  lawyer 
from  this  time  until  his  removal  to  Kentucky,  and  he  is 
frequently  mentioned  in  Col.  Cabell's  papers.  He  practiced 
law  in  the  several  neighboring  counties,  "  at  the  bar  of 
which  he  met  the  world-renowned  Patrick  Henry  in  many 
encounters,  and  grew  in  reputation  by  the  ability  he  dis- 

1  Dr.  Davidson,  in  his  history  of  the   Presbyterian  Church  of  Kentucky, 
quotes  this  maternal  and  impressive  injunction. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        235 

played  in  those  forensic  contests ; "  and  after  his  removal  to 
Kentucky  he  represented  the  interests  of  the  people  of  this 
section  in  that  State.  On  April  8,  1796,  in  a  letter  from 
"Fayette,"  Ky.,  to  William  S.  Crawford  (who  married 
Sophia,  daughter  of  Gabriel  and  Sarah  Callaway  Penn),  of 
Amherst,  relative  to  the  estate  of  Col.  Richard  Callaway, 
he  makes  the  following  personal  reference :  "  I  have  been 
but  15  months  where  1  now  Hve.  I  found  all  things  nearly 
in  a  state  of  nature.  I  shall  however  by  Octr.  complete 
my  buildings,  and  put  my  farm  in  such  a  condition  as  to 
afford  us  plenty  of  Bread  and  Meat." 

His  hfe  soon  became  so  incorporated  with  the  history  of 
Kentucky  as  to  make  it  impossible  to  go  into  the  details 
in  a  brief  sketch  like  this.  He  was  a  member  of  the  leo-is- 
lature;  attorney-general  of  Kentucky;  Speaker  of  the 
House  of  Representatives ;  member  from  Fayette  County  of 
the  Constitutional  Convention  at  Frankfort,  August  17, 
1799 ;  author  and  advocate  of  the  celebrated  resolutions  of 
1798-1799 ;  United  States  Senator  from  Kentucky,  1801- 
1805 ;  Attorney-General  of  the  United  States  under  Jeffer- 
son, December  23,  1805,  to  his  death.  He  died  December 
14,  1806,  at  "  Cabell's  Dale,"  near  Lexington,  Ky.  Breck- 
inridge County,  Ky.,  was  named  for  him.  Some  of  his  re- 
ports as  Senator  and  as  a  commissioner  of  the  sinking  fund, 
some  of  his  opinions  as  attorney-general,  a  few  of  his 
speeches  and  other  public  utterances,  etc.,  have  been  pub- 
lished, and  Collins,  in  his  history  of  Kentucky,  gives  an 
appreciative  sketch  of  him.  He  was  a  son  of  Robert  Breck- 
inridge (by  his  second  wife,  Letitia,  daughter  of  John  Pres- 
ton, the  progenitor  of  one  of  the  Preston  families  of  Vir- 
ginia), who  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  Indian  wars ;  one 
of  the  trustees  for  the  new  town  of  Staunton,  1761 ;  after- 
wards removed  to  the  "  Upper  Country,"  and  when  the 
county  of  Botetourt  w^as  formed  in  November,  1769,  he  was 
the  first  presiding  justice  and  county  lieutenant  of  that 
county.     He  died  in  1772,  in  Botetourt. 

He  was  a  son  of  Alexander  Breckinridge,  who  emigrated 


236  THE   CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

from  Ireland  to  Pennsylvania  in  1728,  and  afterwards 
removed  to  Augusta  County,  Va.,  and  settled  near  the  pres- 
ent site  of  Staunton.  "  His  ancestors  were  originally  from 
Scotland." 

19.  Mary  H.^  Cabell  and  John  Breckinridge  had  issue :  — 

90.  i.  Letitia  Preston^. 

91.  ii.  Joseph  Cabell  ^. 

iii.  Mary  H.,  b.  at  "  The  Glebe,"  in  Albemarle ;  d.  in- 
fant. 

iv.  Robert  H.,  b.  at  "  The  Glebe,"  m  Albemarle ;  d. 
infant. 

92.  V.  Mary  Anne  ^. 

93.  vi.  John^ 

94.  vii.  Robert  Jefferson  *. 

95.  viii.  WilHam  Lewis  *. 

ix.  James  Monroe,  b.  July  11,  1806 ;  d.  in  1819. 

20.  An7i  Cabell,  born  February  15, 1771 ;  married  at  her 
father's  residence  on  February  14  or  15,  1788,  to  Robert 
Carter  Harrison.  The  young  couple  first  settled  on  the 
estate  known  as  "  Ampt  Hill,"  in  Cumberland  County,  Va., 
in  the  fork  of  Willis  and  James  rivers  "  on  lands  which  had 
come  down  to  that  branch  of  the  Harrison  family  from 
Robert  Carter,  commonly  called  '  King  Carter.'  In  the  lat- 
ter part  of  1806,  they  emigrated  to  Fayette  County,  Ky., 
with  their  nine  children  (the  tenth  being  not  yet  born), 
and  settled  on  North  Elkhorn,  on  the  larger  portion  of  that 
noble  tract  of  land  which  had  been  awarded  to  Shadrack 
Vaughan  for  military  services  in  Braddock's  war.  (Harri- 
son exchanged  his  Virginia  lands  for  Vaughan's  Kentucky 
lands.  Captain  Shadrack  Vaughan  married  Mary  Meri- 
wether ;  their  daughter  Kitty  married  Dr.  Andrew  Kean ; 
and  their  son,  John  Vaughan  Kean,  was  the  father  of  the 
Hon.  R.  G.  H.  Kean,  of  Lynchburg.)  They  called  their 
new  home  Elk  Hill,  and  at  this  last  abode  it  was  that  their 
children  were  reared.  They  were  educated,  if  not  liber- 
ally, well,  and  in  accordance  with  the  then  condition  and 
views  of  the  country.     The  family  mansion  was  the  abode 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        237 

of  hospitality.  The  rich  and  the  poor,  the  young  and  the 
old,  the  serious  and  the  gay,  all  met  on  this  welcome 
theatre,  and  there  communicated  to  each  their  views,  sen- 
timents, and  emotions.  There  was,  in  the  circle  of  friends, 
no  distinction  made  on  the  score  of  inequality  of  prop- 
erty, the  only  passport  to  it  being  real  or  supposed  per- 
sonal merit.  Family  and  connections  were  indeed  held  in 
their  true  regard,  but  others  were  also.  Nor  did  there 
ever  anything  happen  that  did  at  all  mar  the  enjoyment  or 
the  friendship  of  this  social  circle.  Several  of  the  mem- 
bers had  been  raised  in  the  Old  Dominion,  and  none  of 
them  cared  to  depart  from  the  maxims  of  the  family  train- 
ing. They  were  all  resolved  that  the  blame  should  not  rest 
on  them  if  Kentucky  should  sink  below  the  virtues  of  Vir- 
ginia, or  if  the  sons  and  daughters  of  Kentucky  should 
ever  degenerate  from  the  high  character  of  Virginia's  own 
children."  (Rev.  Joseph  C.  Harrison,  1858.)  Mrs.  Ann 
Cabell  Harrison  died  at  Elk  Hill,  Fayette  County,  Ky.,  on 
July  27,  1840. 

Her  husband,  Robert  Carter  Harrison,  —  born  at  "  Clif- 
ton," Cumberland  County,  Va.,  June  14,  1765,  died  at 
"Elk  HiU,"  Ky.,  September 9, 1840,  — was  the  son  of  Car- 
ter Henry  Harrison  and  Susanna  Randolph  his  wife. 

Carter  {Henry)  Harrison  was  probably  born  at  Berke- 
ley, on  James  River,  about  1729,  as  he  was  the  next  brother 
to  Benjamin  Harrison,  "  the  signer,"  who  is  said  to  have 
been  born  in  1726.  He  was  a  captain  in  the  war  of  1755. 
In  September  and  October,  he  was  laid  up  with  the  fever 
and  ague,  and  in  December,  1755,  Capt.  Carter  Harrison, 
by  persuasion  of  his  friends,  and  to  serve  his  brother 
(Henry),  who  had  served  under  Gen.  Braddock,  resigned 
his  commission  in  his  brother's  favor,  and  in  May,  1756, 
Capt.  Henry  Harrison  was  serving  under  Washington.  He 
was  fii'st  named  Carter,  and  Henry  was  added  on  the  death, 
in  infancy,  of  his  next  brother,  who  bore  that  name.  (Capt. 
Henry  was  the  foui'th  son.)  He  was  a  very  active  mem- 
ber  of    the   Cumberland    County   Committee,    being   the 


238  THE   CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

author  of  several  most  patriotic  resolutions.  (See  under 
Col.  George  Carrington.)  He  afterwards  served  in  the 
House  of  Delegates.  The  dates  of  his  marriage  and  death 
are  not  known  to  me.  He  was  buried  at  his  seat,  "  Clifton." 
He  was  the  son  of  Benjamin  Harrison,  of  Berkeley,  born 
between  1696  and  1706 ;  married,  prior  to  1725,  Anne, 
daughter  of  Robert,  called  King  Carter,  of  Corotoman.  He 
served  as  high  sheriff  of  his  county,  and  in  the  House  of 
Bursresses.  Himself  and  his  two  dauo^hters  were  killed  at 
Berkeley,  by  the  same  flash  of  lightning,  in  the  summer  of 
1745.  He  was  son  of  Benjamin  Harrison,  born  in  1673 ; 
was  settled  at  Berkeley,  in  the  county  of  Charles  City ;  at- 
torney at  law,  an  assistant  in  the  revisal  of  the  laws  of  the 
colony  in  1700 ;  "  Treasurer  of  the  Impositions  on  Liquors 
and  Slaves  "  in  1706 ;  "  the  Treasurer  of  the  Public  impo- 
sitions of  this  Colony  ;  "  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Burgesses, 
1706  to  1710.  He  married  EHzabeth  Burwell,  daughter  of 
Lewis  Burwell,  of  Gloucester ;  died  April  10,  1710,  and  was 
buried  at  Westover.  He  was  the  eldest  son  of  Benjamin 
Harrison,  of  Surry,  born  in  the  parish  of  Southwalk,  Va., 
September  20,  1645 ;  a  commissioner  for  Surry  County  in 
1667 ;  a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  as  early  as 
1692,  and  of  His  Majesty's  Council  of  Virginia  as  early  as 
1696,  in  which  office  he  continued  until  his  death,  on  Jan- 
uary 30,  17J3.  He  was  the  son  of  Benjamin  Harrison,  the 
emigrant.  As  Carter  Henry  Harrison,  the  father  of  Robert 
Carter  Harrison  (1765-1840),  was  brother  to  Benjamin 
Harrison,  the  signer,  their  ancestry  is  the  same.^ 

Susanna  Randolph,  the  wife  of  Carter  Henry  Harrison, 
was  a  daughter  of  Isham  Randolph,  probably  the  youngest, 
as  she  was  the  only  unmarried  daughter  at  the  date  of  her 
mother's  will,  December  5,  1760.  Isham  Randolph,  born 
about  1690,  was  sometime  agent  for  the  colony  of  Virginia 
in  England ;  married,  in  1717,  Jane  Rogers,  of  ShadweU 
Street,  London  ;  returned  to  Virginia  ;  appointed  adjutant- 

1  See  The  Ancestry  of  Benjamin  Harrison^  President  of  the  United  States, 
1889-1893,  by  Charles  P.  Keith.     Philadelphia,  1893. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        239 

general  of  Virginia,  1738;  colonel  of  Goochland  County 
militia,  1740;  member  House  of  Burgesses,  etc.  When 
he  built  his  seat,  which  he  called  "  Dunge  Ness,"  or  "  Dun- 
geoness"  (the  river  forming  the  shape  of  a  nose  there),  on 
James  River,  some  twenty  odd  miles  above  "  The  Falls," 
it  was  on  the  frontiers,  and,  I  suppose,  at  first  had  some- 
thing of  the  character  of  a  fortress.  His  will,  dated  April 
6,  1741,  was  proved  December  21,  1742.  He  provided  for 
a  promised  payment  "  to  Peter  Jefferson  upon  his  inter- 
marriage with  my  daughter  Jane  of  the  sum  of  -£200,"  and 
appoints  Jefferson  one  of  the  guardians  of  his  children. 
His  widow's  will,  dated  December  5,  1760,  was  proven 
July  21,  1761.  She  was  related  to  "  William  Lilburne 
Esquire  of  Kenton  in  the  Byshoprick  of  Durham."  Her 
daughters  married  as  follows  :  — 
Jane,  m.  Peter  Jefferson ;  marriage  bond  dated  October  3, 

1739.     (The  parents  of  Thomas  Jefferson.) 
Mary,  m.   Charles    Lewis,  Jr. ;    marriage  bond  dated  July 

15,  1746. 
Elizabeth,  m.  in  1750  John  Railey. 
Dorothea,   m.  John  Woodson ;    bond    dated    October   28, 

1751. 
Anne,  m.  (1)  Daniel  Scott,  bond  dated  November  26, 1751 ; 

(2d)  John  Pleasants ;  and  (3d)  James  Pleasants,  of  "  Con- 
tention."    The  last  two  were  Quakers. 
Susanna,  m.,  after  1760,  Carter  H.  Harrison. 

It  would  be  interesting  to  know  the  relationship  between 
Thomas  Jefferson  and  John  Lilburne  (1618-1657),  of  Dui^ 
ham,  first  a  Puritan,  then  a  Quaker,  whom  Hume  designates 
as  "the  most  turbulent,  but  the  most  upright  and  cour- 
ageous, of  human  kind." 

Isham  Randolph  was  a  son  of  William  Randolph  (1651- 
1711),  the  emigrant ;  clerk  of  Henrico,  1673-1683  ;  justice 
of  the  peace  of  Henrico,  1683-1711 ;  burgess ;  attorney- 
general  ;  member  Council,  etc.  He  married  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of  Henry  and  Catharine  Isham,  of  Bermuda  Hundred, 
on  James  River.     His  father,  Richard  Randolph,  of  Morton 


240  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

Hcill,  Warwickshire,  was  half  brother  to  Thomas  Randolph, 
the  poet.^ 

20.  Ann^  Cabell  and  Eobert  C.  Harrison  had  issue 
ten  :  — 

96.  i.    Susanna  Randolph*  Harrison. 

97.  ii.    Mary  Hopkins*  Harrison. 

98.  iii.    Joseph  Cabell*  Harrison. 

99.  iv.    Carter  Henry*  Harrison. 

100.  V.    Ann  Cabell*  Harrison. 

101.  vi.    Robert  Carter*  Harrison. 

102.  vii.    Elizabeth  Lewis*  Harrison. 

103.  viii.    Sarah  Randolph*  Harrison. 

104.  ix.    Virginia  *  Harrison. 

105.  X.    Pocahontas  R.  P*.  Harrison. 

21.  Elizcibeth^  Cabell  (2d),  born  about  1772,  and  named 
for  her  sister,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Cabell  Megginson,  who  died 
in  1771.  She  married  Col.  William  J.  Lewis,  of  Mount 
Athos,  Campbell  County,  Va.  They  resided  at  this  seat,  on 
James  River,  some  ten  miles  below  Lynchburg.  After  the 
death  of  her  husband,  in  1828,  she  moved  to  Kentucky, 
and  Hved  with  her  sister,  Mrs.  Breckinridge.  "  In  .  1838, 
these  two  old  ladies  visited  Virginia ;  being  fearful  of 
steam,  they  came  all  the  way  in  a  carriage  driven  by  Col. 
Lewis'  nephew,  Thomas  Towles."  This  is  one  account  sent 
me,  but  I  do  not  know  what  steam  route  in  1838  the 
reference  is  to.  Another  account  says  :  "  They  could  then 
reach  Kentucky  by  stage,  but  preferred  to  make  the  jour- 
ney in  their  own  carriage.  Mrs.  Breckinridge  said  she  had 
traveled  backwards  and  forwards  between  Virginia  and 
Kentucky  many  times  on  horseback,  attended  by  armed 
men,  as  the  country  was  then  full  of  Indians,  sometimes  not 
friendly."  Mrs.  Lewis  died  in  Louisville,  Ky.,  on  February 
6,  1855. 

Col.  William  J.  Lewis,  born  in  Augusta  County,  July  4, 
1766  (brother  to  Agatha  Lewis,  who  married  Col.  Oliver 

1  See   New   England  Historical  and  Genealogical  Register,  October,  1894, 
p.  489. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        241 

Towles,  whose  daughter  married  Landon  Cabell  Rives),  was 
the  son  o£  Col.  William  Lewis,  of  the  Sweet  Springs,  and 
grandson  of  John  Lewis,  "the  first  European  settler  of 
Augusta  County,  Va."  The  genealogy  of  the  family  is 
preserved  in  Peyton's  "  History  of  Augusta  County,  Vir- 
ginia." 

Col.  WilHam  J.  Lewis  was  many  years  a  leading  member 
of  the  Legislature  of  Virginia,  and  in  1817—1819  repre- 
sented his  district  in  Congress.  One  who  knew  him  said 
that  he  was  "  a  Legislator,  Statesman,  Philanthropist,  and  a 
Patriot  of  the  first  water."  He  died  at  Mount  Athos,  Oc- 
tober 26,  1828,  and  was  buried  at  the  summit  of  the  moun- 
tain he  had  lived  on  and  loved  so  well,  on  the  spot  selected 
by  himself,  in  a  vault  blasted  out  of  the  solid  rock. 

Col.  and  Mrs.  Lewis  left  no  children. 

IV.   COL.    JOHN  2  CABELL'S   CHILDREN. 

22.  Dr.  George  Cahell,  Sr.,  born  November  1,  1766; 
at  Hampden  Sidney  Acaderny,  1777-1779 ;  completed  his 
medical  education  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  and 
became  one  of  the  most  successful  physicians  and  surgeons 
in  the  Lynchburg  section  of  Virginia. 

He  was  the  personal  friend  and  physician  of  Patrick 
Henry,  the  orator,  —  attended  him  in  his  last  illness,  and 
was  present  at  his  death.  There  is  a  sketch  of  Dr.  CabeU 
in  "  Sketches  and  Recollections  of  Lynchburg,  by  the 
Oldest  Inhabitant,"  pp.  207-211,  and  of  his  wife,  pp.  174- 
176. 

He  lived  on  his  farm,  now  a  part  of,  but  then  adjoining, 
Lynchburg,  in  the  fork  of  Blackwater  Creek  and  James 
River,  known  as  "  The  Point  of  Honor." 

He  married  Sarah,  the  eldest  daughter  of  Judge  Edmund 
Winston  by  his  first  wife,  Alice  Winston,  who  was  his 
cousin.  Judge  Winston  married  secondly  the  widow  of 
Patrick  Henry,  the  orator.  He  practiced  law  in  this  sec- 
tion prior  to  1767,  and  was  a  judge  of  his  district  for 
many  years  after  the  Revolution.     He  died  at  an  advanced 


242  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

age  in  1813.  His  father,  William  Winston,  noted  as  a 
hunter,  Indian  fighter,  and  orator,  was  called  "  Langaloo 
Billy,"  and  there  are  many  anecdotes  of  him.  He  was  the 
son  of  Isaac  Winston,  the  emigrant.  There  are  several 
published  pedigrees  of  the  Winstons  in  books,  viz..  Slaugh- 
ter's "  St.  Mark's  Parish,"  Brock's  "  Vestry  Book  of  Hen- 
rico Parish,"  Henry's  "  Life  of  Henry,"  etc. 

Alice  Winston,  the  first  wife  of  Judge  Edmund  Winston, 
was  the  daughter  of  Anthony  Winston  by  his  wife,  Alice 
Taylor,  the  daughter  of  Col.  Edmund  Taylor,  of  Caroline 
(by  his  wife,  Anne  Lewis),  son  of  John  Taylor  (by  his  wife, 
Catherine  Pendleton,  daughter  of  Philip  Pendleton  (1650- 
1721),  from  Norwich,  England),  son  of  James  Taylor,  who 
emigrated  from  Carlisle,  England,  and  died  in  1698  in  Vir- 
ginia. 

The  Winston  family  is  very  ancient,  having  been  long 
seated  in  Wales  and  the  neighboring  shires  of  England. 
Robert  Cecil,  Earl  of  Salisbury  (a  leading  manager  of  our 
foundation),  was  notably  proud  of  his  "  Wynston  "  ances- 
try. The  Virginia  Winstons  are  said  to  have  emigrated 
from  Wales,  but  I  take  them  to  be  of  the  same  family  as 
Dr.  Thomas  Winston,  who  was  of  Panswick  in  Gloucester- 
shire.^ 

Mrs.  Sarah  Winston  Cabell  died  early  in  the  spring  of 
1826,  and  Bishop  Richard  Channing  Moore  thus  alludes  to 
her  in  his  report  made  to  the  Council  of  the  Episcopal 
Church  on  May  20,  1826:  "During  the  past  year  St. 
Paul's  Church,  Lynchburg,  has  been  called  to  mourn  the 
death  (a  death,  however,  too  full  of  the  Christian  hopes 
and  consolations  to  be  mourned)  of  one  whose  amiableness 
and  purity  of  manners,  whose  elevated  rank  in  society, 
whose  ardent  attachment  to  the  Church,  and  splendid  liber- 
ality in  its  advancement,  made  her  the  ornament  and  sup- 
port of  our  suffering  cause,  —  the  late  Mrs.  Sarah  Cabell." 

Dr.  George  Cabell,  Sr.,  died  about  two  years  before  his 
•wife,  in  December,  1823. 

1  See  The  Genesis  of  the  United  States,  vol.  ii.  pp.  849,  1056. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        243 

22.  Dr.  George  ^  and  Sarah  Winston  Cabell  had  issue :  — 

106.  i.    PauHna*. 

ii.   Edmund  Winston,  never  married. 

107.  iii.    George  Kuhn*. 

108.  iv.    Alices 

109.  V.    John  Breckinridge*. 

110.  vi.    William  J.  Lewis  *,  b.   1806 ;    Hampden  Sidney 

College,  1825 ;  University  of  Virginia,  1826 ; 
m.  January  3,  1828,  Eliza,  daughter  of  Judge 
William  Daniel,  Sr. ;  d.  s.  p. 

111.  vii.    Marion  Fontaine  *,  b.   1809 ;  m.  her   cousin.  Dr. 

Landon  R.  Cabell  (65) ;  d.  in  1834,  s.  p. 
viii.    Sarah,  d.  young. 

23.  Frederick^  Cabell  was  born  December  13,  1768. 
Devoted  himself  to  business  in  early  manhood.  He  was 
remarkable  for  energy  and  perseverance,  honesty  and  integ- 
rity, and  made  nearly  all  of  a  large  fortune  through  his 
own  efforts,  by  a  long  course  of  industry  and  economy, 
erettino"  nothino;  from  his  father's  estate  till  he  did  not  need 
it.  His  father  bequeathed  to  him  the  estate  on  the  north 
side  of  James  River,  just  above  Buffalo  station,  known 
as  "Struman."  He  also  acquired,  in  the  course  of  time,  a 
large  part  of  his  father's  estate  by  purchase  from  the  other 
heirs,  —  "  Green  Hill,"  with  all  the  lands  attached  thereto, 
including  the  farm  below,  now  known  as  "  Elm  Cottage," 
with  Hughes'  (now  Norwood)  Island,  opposite,  from  his 
brothers;  and  after  the  death  of  his  sister,  Paulina,  he 
bought  the  "  Fork  field  "  estate,  in  the  fork  of  Tye  and 
James  rivers,  from  her  executors. 

In  1801,  he  married  AHce  Winston  (sister  to  his  brother 
George's  wife,  see  22),  second  daughter  of  Judge  Edmund 
Winston,  then  of  "  Chesnutt  Hill,"  below  Lynchburg 
(in  the  present  county  of  Campbell),  afterwards  of  "  Hunt- 
ing Tower,"  in  Buckingham  County.^  Judge  Winston  was 
a  son  of  WiUiam  Winston  (a  great  hunter,  Indian  fighter, 

^  See  Sketches  and  Recollections  of  Lynchburg,  by  the  Oldest  Inhabitant,  pp. 
220-225. 


244  THE   CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

and  orator,  a  lieutenant  in  the  French  and  Indian  war,  etc.) 
by  his  wife,  "  a  sister  of  Col.  William  Dabney,  of  Aldring- 
ham,  Hanover,"  and  daughter  of  George  Dabney,  son  of 
Cornehus  Dabney,  a  chiu'chwarden  of  St.  Peter's  Parish, 
New  Kent  County,  in  1685.  Dabneys  owned  land  in  this 
county  prior  to  1678. 

Mrs.  Edward  Dabney  wrote  me  in  November,  1878: 
"  I  have  seen  letters  directed  to  '  York  River '  as  early  as 
1655,  to  Dabneys  of  Gloucester."  The  several  pedigrees 
of  this  family,  which  I  have  seen,  differ  in  the  early  genera- 
tions, and  I  have  no  means  of  ascertaining  which  is  cor- 
rect ;  but  it  is  certain  that  Dabneys  were  members  of  the 
Virginia  Company  of  London,  that  members  of  the  family 
came  early  to  Virginia,  and  probably  that  all  were  of  the 
same  family  connection.^ 

Alice  Winston  Cabell  was  an  elegant  woman,  of  talent 
and  culture.  She  died  suddenly  in  1814,  soon  after  the 
birth  of  her  youngest  child.  Her  husband  never  married 
again.  He  died  February  15,  1841,  and  was  buried  at 
"  Struman."  * 

23.  Frederick  ^  and  AHee  Winston  Cabell  had  issue :  — 

112.  i.    Mary  Mildred  ^  m.  John -^Horsley  (37). 

113.  ii.    Frederick  Mortimer^. 

iii.    Sarah  Syme,  b.  August  27,  1804 ;  d.  July  16, 

1821. 
iv.    Alice  Winston,  b.  April,  1806 ;  d.  infant. 

114.  V.    Edmund  Winston^. 

115.  vi.    Clifford  ^ 

116.  vii.    Paulina  Virsfinia  *. 

117.  viii.    Louis  Warrinor-ton  *. 

24.  JoJdi  Jordan  ^  Cahell  was  born  November  30, 1772  ; 
graduated  in  medicine  in  Philadelphia ;  estabhshed  himself 
as  a  physician  in  Lynchburg  ;  and  on  February  24,  1803, 
married  Miss  Henry  Ann,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Ann 
Davies.  He  lived  mostly  in  Lynchburg,  but  had  a  country 
residence  on  his  farm  in  Bedford,  where  most  of  his  chil- 

1  See  Dabneys  of  Virginia. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        245 

dren  were  born.  He  was  a  man  of  remarkable  energy,  and 
during  life  followed  diverse  pursuits.  While  practicing 
medicine  with  much  success,  he  also  managed  his  large 
landed  estates,  and  for  many  years  owned  a  store  in  Lynch- 
burg. I  have  some  of  his  store  accounts  during  1806- 
1812,  from  which  it  seems  that  the  business  was  chiefly 
conducted  by  his  clerks.  He  was  also  successively  the 
proprietor  of  more  than  one  political  paper,  and  occasion- 
ally wrote  for  each.  "  The  Jeffersonian  Republican,"  of 
Lynchburg,  was  established  by  John  A.  Wharton  and  him- 
self, but  it  was  only  in  existence  a  few  years.  He  pur- 
chased a  large  tract  of  valuable  lands,  with  salt  wells,  on 
the  Kanawha  River,  above  Charleston,  and  later  in  life 
"  established  himself  there  permanently,  carrying  on  with 
great  energy  and  perseverance  an  extensive  salt  manu- 
factory." 

Dr.  John  J.  Cabell  was  probably  one  of  the  first  in  Vir- 
ginia to  become  a  convert  to  Swedenborgianism,  —  certainly 
the  first  of  the  Cabell  name.  I  believe  that  he  became  a 
member  of  the  New  Jerusalem  Church  prior  to  1819. 

In  1830,  he  moved  to  his  salt-works  in  Kanawha  County, 
where  he  died  August  7,  1834.^ 

His  wife,  Henry  Ann  Davies,  "  one  of  the  most  pure- 
minded  excellent  women,"  died  March  18,  1843,  at  her 
residence  in  Lynchburg,  in  her  63d  year.  She  was  a 
daughter  of  Henry  Landon  Davies  (by  his  first  wife,  Ann 
Clayton),  son  of  Nicholas  Davies,  the  emigrant,  a  native  of 
Wales  and  a  merchant  in  Henrico  County  prior  to  1733, 
who  married  (1st),  in  December  of  that  year,  Mrs.  Judith 
Randolph,  nee  Fleming,  the  widow  of  Col.  Thomas  Ran- 
dolph, deceased,  of  Tuckahoe.  Her  brothers,  John  and 
Tarleton  Fleminsf,  were  her  trustees  in  her  marriag'e  con- 
tract,  or  bond,  with  her  second  husband. 

Davies  was  a  large  dealer  in  lands,  locating,  entering, 
patenting,  transferring,  buying,  and  selling  them  during 
life.     The  Rev.  William  Stith,  the    historian,  married  his 

^  See  Sketches  and  Recollections  of  Lynchburg,  pp.  115,  116,  212-215. 


246  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR   KIN 

wife's  daughter,  Judith  Randolph,  on  July  13,  1738 ;  and 
six  days  thereafter  Mr.  Stith  and  himself  entered,  with 
Mai.  William  Mayo,  the  surveyor  of  Goochland,  for  10,000 
acres  of  land  adjoining  John  Boiling  and  George  Braxton 
&  Co.,  and  on  August  4,  1739,  they  entered  for  10,000 
acres  more  adjoining  the  abovesaid.  These  lands  were 
below  Lynchburg.  His  various  entries  extended  from 
Muddy  Creek  in  Cumberland  to  the  Scotch-Irish  Falls,  near 
the  Blue  Ridge  in  Bedford.  These  entries  were  finally  all 
transferred  to  the  country  above  Lynchburg ;  and  in  Octo- 
ber, 1753,  Dr.  William  Cabell  made  him  an  inclusive  plat 
of  his  lands  on  both  sides  of  James  River,  between  Judith's 
Creek  and  the  Scotch-Irish  Falls,  the  same  being  31,850 
acres.  The  Davies-Stith  entries  were  transferred  above 
Lynchburg  in  1743.  In  the  division,  Stith  received  1711 
acres  of  the  original  Poplar  Forest  tract ;  he  added  2289 
acres  to  this  in  1745,  and  2000  acres  more  in  1749,  "  to 
make  it  6000  acres,"  of  which  he  had  an  inclusive  plat 
made.  Stith  died  in  1755.  I  do  not  know  how  the  "  Pop- 
lar Forest "  was  acquired  by  Thomas  Jefferson  ;  but,  be- 
ginning with  December  31,  1744,  his  father,  Peter  Jeffer- 
son, entered  much  land  in  the  same  region. 

Nicholas  Davies  was  still  living  in  Henrico  Parish,  Hen- 
rico County,  in  1740,  but  had  moved  to  St.  James  Parish, 
Goochland,  in  1745,  when  he  was  living  on  a  large  tract  of 
land  (which  he  afterwards  sold)  on  Muddy  Creek,  on  the 
south  side  of  James  River.  In  April,  1745,  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  grand  jury  in  Williamsburg  which  presented 
Rev.  John  Roan  (a  Presbyterian  minister),  Thomas  Wat- 
kins,  and  Joshua  Morris  for  "  reflecting  on  the  Established 
Rehg^ion."  In  1747  he  was  a  churchwarden  of  Southam 
Parish,  and  in  1748  a  justice  of  the  peace  for  Cumber- 
land. He  probably  moved  to  the  upper  country  prior  to 
1754.  He  was  still  living  in  August,  1793.  The  date  of 
his  death  is  not  known  to  me.  He  had  no  issue  by  his 
first  wife,  Mrs.  Randolph,  who  died  prior  to  1743.  He 
married  secondly  his  first  cousin.  Miss  Catharine  Whiting, 
by  whom  he  had  Henry  Landon  Davies  aforesaid. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        247 

Ann  Clayton  (who  married  her  first  cousin,  H.  L.  Davies, 
January  15,  1767}  was  a  daughter  of  John  Clayton  ( 1693- 
1773),  "the  botanist"  (by  his  wife,  EKzabeth  Whiting, 
sister  to  Catharine  Whiting,  the  second  wife  of  Nicholas 
Davies),  son  of  John  Clayton  (1665-1737),  for  many  years 
attorney-general  of  the  colony  of  Virginia ;  son  of  Sir 
John  Clayton  by  his  wife,  Alice,  daughter  of  Sir  William 
Bowyer,  of  Denham,  Bucks,  baronet,  by  his  wife,  Margaret, 
daughter  of  Sir  John  Weld,  of  Arnolds,  son  of  Sir  Hum- 
phrey Weld.  Both  of  these  Welds  were  of  the  founders  of 
Virginia.  Sir  WilHam  Bowyer' s  mother,  Anne,  was  the 
daughter  of  Sir  Nicholas  Salter,  another  founder.  She 
married  secondly  Sir  Arthur  Harris,  another  founder,  and 
nephew  to  Sir  Thomas  Smith,  the  chief  manager  of  the 
business  portion  of  our  first  foundation.  The  founders  of 
the  nation  continued  their  interest  in  the  new  country 
from  generation  to  generation.  The  descendants  of  Atty.- 
Gen.  Clayton  have  a  right  to  feel  a  pride  in  being  of 
Founder's  kin.^ 

24:.  Dr.  John  J.^  and  Henry  Ann  Da\des  Cabell  had 
issue :  — 

i.    Mary  Elizabeth,  b.  March  11,  1804;  d.  April 

13,  1822. 
ii.    Catharine  Ann,  b.  June  14,  1805  ;  d.  infant, 
iii.    John  Henry,  b.  November  20,  1806 ;  d.  infant. 

118.  iv.   Judith  Scott  \ 

V.    Frederick  Augustus,  b.  May  18,  1810  ;  d.  infant. 

119.  vi.    Sarah  Winston  ^. 

120.  vii.    Frances  Whiting*. 

viii.   Pauhna  J.  H.,  b.  April  5,  1818;  d.  May,  1835. 
ix.    John  Emanuel  Swedenborg,  b.  July  23,  1819 ; 
d.  infant. 

121.  X.    Henry  Ann  *. 

25.  Samuel  Jordan^  Cabell,  born  in  Buckingham 
County,  Va.,  January  19,  1777 ;  went  to  Monroe  County, 
Va.   (now  West  Virginia),  when  a  young  man,  where  he 

1  See  Genesis  of  the  United  States,  pp.  913,  991,  1044, 


248  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

married,  in  1796,  Susanna  Ewing.  They  removed  to  Casey 
County,  Ky.,  in  1808,  and  lived  there  until  December, 
1824,  when  he  purchased  a  large  tract  of  land  in  Green 
County,  Ky.,  where  he  continued  to  reside  until  his  death, 
February  28,  1854.  His  first  wife  died  about  1820,  and 
he  married  secondly  Mrs.  Montgomery  [nee  Wakefield),  of 
Green  County,  Ky.,  but  had  no  issue  by  her. 

"  Samuel  Jordan  Cabell  was  of  a  very  individual  char- 
acter, strong-minded,  austere,  and  of  a  very  rash  temper, 
yet  a  man  of  scrupulous  integrity  and  very  religious.  He 
was  very  plain,  yet  full  of  pride.  He  was  to  the  day 
of  his  death  the  ruler  of  his  domain,  and  this  fact  none 
dared  question.  He  started  to  the  West  when  a  very 
young  man,  and  he  was  just  such  a  man  as  will  always  suc- 
ceed under  such  conditions  as  usually  confront  the  early 
settlers  of  a  new  country,  and  a  sketch  of  his  life  with  the 
changes  which  he  saw  in  his  '  Westward  ho  ! '  would  be 
very  interesting.  At  his  death  he  left  quite  a  fortune, 
which  he  had  amassed  in  his  new  home.  He  only  visited 
his  brothers  in  Virginia  a  few  times,  but,  judging  from 
their  old  letters,  some  of  which  still  remain,  their  natural 
affection  for  each  other  was  never  diminished. 

"  While  in  him  there  were  some  things  it  may  be  not  to 
be  admired,  yet  his  strong  traits  (he  had  no  weak  ones) 
had  much  in  them  that  is  admirable,  and  certainly  he  was 
full  of  interest  as  a  character. 

"  He  became  deeply  indoctrinated  with  Presbyterian  prin- 
ciples, was  long  an  elder  in  that  church,  and  his  children 
and  grandchildren  have  followed  in  his  footsteps.  His 
descendants  have  been  followers  of  agricultural  pursuits, 
but  few  of  them  going  into  the  professions.  They  have 
been  conspicuously  absent  from  politics,  and  such  vocations 
as  are  calculated  to  bring  one's  life  into  notice.  Yet  they 
have  with  scarcely  an  exception  been  recognized  as  among 
the  most  worthy  and  respectable  of  those  among  whom 
they  have  lived.  They  have  advocated  and  practiced  the 
religious  as  well  as  the  mental  education  of  their  children 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN  249 

and  the  children  of  their  fellow-men.  In  politics  they 
have  been  and  are  of  the  Jeffersonian  school  and  modern 
Democracy." 

25.  Samuel  Jordan^  and  Susanna  Ewing  Cabell  had 
issue :  — 

122.  i.    Paulina  Jordan  ^. 

123.  ii.    William  E.^ 

iii.   John,  b.  March  1,  1800;    d.  March  7,  1821, 

unmarried. 
iv.   Edwin,  b.  October  28,  1801 ;  d.  September  10, 

1823,  unmarried. 

124.  V.    Jennetta  ^. 

125.  vi.    Elizabeth*. 

126.  vii.    Madison*. 

127.  viii.   Elvira  A.*. 

ix.    Samuel  R.,  b.  June  7,  1814;    d.  in  1851  of 
cholera,  in  the  South,  unmarried. 

128.  X.    Frederick*. 

xi.    George  Winston,  b.  1817  ;  d.  1836. 

V.    COL.   NICHOLAS 2  CABELL'S   CHILDREN. 

27.  Willimn  H?  Cabell  wrote  the  following  sketch  of 
himself  in  1846  :  — 

"  I  was  born  December  16,  1772,  at  '  Boston  Hill,'  in 
Cumberland  County,  Va.,  the  residence  of  my  maternal 
grandfather.  Col.  George  Carrington,  whose  wife  was  a 
daughter  of  Major  William  Mayo,  who  lived  in  that  part 
of  old  Goochland  which  is  now  Powhatan  County.  '  Bos- 
ton Hill '  is  within  five  or  six  miles  of  Cartersville. 

"  From  the  spring  of  1782  to  the  spring  of  1783,  I  went 
to  school  from  my  father's  to  George  Lambert,  a  teacher  of 
Enghsh.  From  February  or  March,  1784,  to  the  next 
Christmas,  I  went  to  school  at  my  maternal  grandfather's, 
'  Boston  Hill,'  to  Mr.  James  Wilson,  where  I  commenced 
the  study  of  the  Latin  language.  In  the  month  of  Feb- 
ruary or  March,  1785,  I  went  to  Hampden  Sidney  College, 
where  I  continued  until  September,  1789.     In  the  month 


250  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

of  February  or  March,  1790,  I  went  to  William  and  Mary 
College,  where  I  continued  until  July,  1793.  In  the  fall  of 
1793,  I  went  to  Richmond  to  complete  the  study  of  the 
law,  and  remained  there  until  June  13,  1794,  when  I  was 
licensed  to  practice  law,  after  an  examination  by  Judges 
Joseph  Prentis,  James  Henry,  and  William  Nelson. 

"  In  July,  1794,  commenced  the  practice  of  the  law. 

"On  the  9th  of  April,  1795,  I  married  Elizabeth  Ca- 
bell, the  youngest  daughter  of  Col.  William  Cabell,  of 
Union  Hill.  I  hved  in  his  family  till  his  death  in  1798, 
and  afterwards  with  his  widow,  at  Union  Hill,  till  the 
29th  of  January,  1801,  when  I  moved  to  my  own  house  at 
Midway. 

"  I  was  elected  to  the  Assembly  in  the  spring  of  1796. 
I  was  also  in  the  famous  Assembly  of  1798,  and  voted  for 
the  famous  resolutions  of  that  session.  I  was  an  elector  at 
the  first  election  of  Mr.  Jefferson,  and  filled  the  same  office 
on  one  or  two  subsequent  occasions. 

"My  first  wife  died  November  5,  1801,  shortly  after 
which  I  went  to  Charleston,  S.  C,  but  returned  the  follow- 
ing spring. 

"  I  was  a  member  of  the  Assembly  in  the  years  1802, 
1803,  and  1804. 

"  On  the  11th  of  March,  1805,  I  was  married  to  Agnes 
S.  B.  Gamble,  oldest  daughter  of  Col.  Robert  Gamble,  of 
Richmond. 

"  In  April,  1805,  I  was  again  elected  to  the  Assembly, 
and  attended  as  a  member  (December,  1805) ;  but  within  a 
few  days  after  the  commencement  of  the  session  I  was 
elected  governor,  in  which  office  I  continued  for  three 
years,  till  December,  1808,  when  I  was  elected  by  the 
Legislature  a  judge  of  the  General  Court  (commissioned  by 
Gov.  John  Tyler  on  December  15,  1808),  which  office  I 
held  until  April  3,  1811.  I  was  appointed  to  the  Court  of 
Appeals  by  Gov.  Monroe  and  the  Privy  Council  on  March 
21,  1811 ;  qualified  April  the  3d  following ;  was  elected  by 
the  Legislature  to  the  same  judgeship  on  December  11, 


JUDGE  WILLIAM    H.   CABELL 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        251 

1811,  and  commissioned  by  Gov.  George  William  Smith, 
which  office  I  continue  to  hold. 

"  After  the  adoption  of  the  new  Constitution  of  Virginia 
(1830),  I  was  reelected  a  judge  of  the  Court  of  Appeals  on 
April  11,  1831,  and  commissioned  by  Gov.  John  Floyd. 
On  the  18th  of  January,  1842,  I  was  elected  president  of 
that  court,  and  commissioned  by  Lieut.-Gov.  John  Ruther- 
ford. I  qualified  and  took  my  seat  January  20,  1842,  and 
am  now  occupying  the  same  position." 

To  Judge  Cabell's  sketch  of  himself  I  will  add  the  fol- 
lowing from  various  sources :  He  is  frequently  mentioned 
in  the  papers  of  Cols.  William  Cabell,  Sr.  and  Jr.,  of 
"  Union  Hill."  Col.  William,  Sr.,  notes  in  his  diary,  April 
26,  1785,  that  his  brother,  "  Col.  N.  Cabell,  went  to  Hamp- 
den Sidney  to  see  his  son  William." 

"Oct.  1st,  1789.  Lent  my  nephew,  Wm.  Cabell,  Jr., 
Boyer's  French  Dictionary,  and  Vertot's  History  of  the 
Revolution  of  Sweden  (2  vols.),  in  French.  Sallust  he  had 
some  time  a^o." 

After  leaving  Hampden  Sidney  in  September,  1789,  he 
continued  his  studies  at  home  until  his  entrance  at  Wil- 
liam and  Mary  in  the  spring  of  1790,  where  he  took  the 
degree  of  L.  B. 

He  told  his  son,  the  Hon.  E.  C.  Cabell,  that  "  his  name 
was  originally  simply  William  Cabell,  and  that  he  had 
inserted  the  letter  H.  —  which  did  not  stand  for  any  partic- 
ular name — to  distinguish  himself  from  others  of  the  same 
name." 

Prior  to  1795,  he  signed  his  letters  "  WiUiam  Cabell," 
and  Col.  William  Cabell,  Sr.,  always  writes  of  him  as  "  my 
nephew,  William  Cabell,  Jr.,"  or  as  "  Cousin  Billy  Cabell." 
He  married,  April  9,  1795,  Col.  Cabell's  daughter,  and 
when  he  came  to  "  Union  Hill "  to  live  he  made  the  third 
William  Cabell  of  the  same  household.  It  was  at  this  time, 
I  suppose,  that  he  inserted  the  "  H."  The  first  reference  to 
him  in  which  this  letter  is  used,  in  Col.  WiUiam  Cabell's 
diary,  is  the  following  :  — 


252  THE   CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

"June  26tli,  1795.  Sent  by  Wm.  H.  Cabell  £5.  to 
Busbrod  Washington  to  defend  the  relatives  of  Col.  Samuel 
Jordan  deed,  in  tbeir  respective  claims  to  a  tract  of  2400 
acres  on  Grassy  Creek  in  Henry  County." 

I  have  a  good  many  of  Judge  Cabell's  letters  to  his 
brother-in-law,  Col.  William  Cabell,  Jr. ;  they  are  all  inter- 
esting, but,  of  course,  too  long  for  insertion  in  a  work  of 
this  character. 

When  he  removed  from  Union  Hill  to  "Midway,"  in 
January,  1801,  his  wife's  health  was  not  good.  In  August, 
he  took  her  to  her  sister,  Mrs.  Eead,  in  Charlotte,  where 
she  improved  for  a  fortnight,  and  then  her  disease  (con- 
sumption) took  a  very  unfavorable  turn.  On  September  10 
they  returned  to  Amherst,  and  November  5,  1801,  his  wife 
died,  probably  at  "  Union  Hill,"  where  she  was  buried. 

Fearing  that  he  was  threatened  with  consumption  him- 
self, on  December  19, 1801,  "  he  set  out  to  Charleston,  S.  C, 
and  perhaps  farther  south,  to  remain  until  the  middle  of 
February."  He  returned  in  due  time,  resumed  his  practice 
was  elected  a  delegate  from  the  county  for  the  sessions 
1802-1803,  1803-1804,  1804-1805,  and  1805-1806,  but 
in  the  early  part  of  the  last-named  session  (December,  1805), 
was  elected  governor,  which  office  he  filled  until  December, 
1808.  Among  the  most  memorable  events  during  his  ad- 
ministration were  the  trial  of  Aaron  Burr ;  the  firing  on  the 
United  States  frigate  Chesapeake  by  the  British  sloop-of-war 
Leopard,  on  June  22,  1807  ;  and  the  blockading  of  Hamp- 
ton Roads,  on  July  3,  by  the  British  squadron  under  Com- 
modore Douglass.  His  message  of  December  8,  1807,  to 
the  General  Assembly  reviews  these  acts  of  the  British, 
breathes  war  or  retraction,  and  urges  the  in-time-of-peace- 
prepare-for-war  idea,  the  establishment  of  military  schools, 
etc. 

His  second  wife  was  sister  to  Hon.  William  Wirt's  sec- 
ond wife,  and  there  are  many  pleasant  references  to  him  in 
Mr.  Wirt's  excellent  letters. 

On  January  2,  1809,  the  county  of  "Kenawha"  was 


MRS.   AGNES   S.    B.   GAMBLE  CABELL 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        253 

divided  and  a  new  county  formed  therefrom,  which  was 
named  "  Cabell,"  for  Gov.  William  H.  Cabell.  His  home 
was  at  "  Midway  "  from  1801  to  1809  or  1810,  when  he 
bought "  Repton,"  in  Buckingham  County,  from  his  cousin 
Joe.  He  removed  there  prior  to  May  31,  1810,  and  prior 
to  August,  1811,  William  Wirt  and  himself  had  changed 
the  name  of  the  place  to  "  Montevideo."  Mr.  Wirt  was 
an  enthusiastic  admirer  of  the  view  from  the  residence. 

Judsfe  Cabell  sold  "Montevideo"  in  1822,  and  removed 
to  Richmond.  He  was  president  of  the  Court  of  Appeals 
of  Virginia  from  1842  until  he  retired  from  the  bench  in 
1851. 

His  acts  as  a  member  of  the  House  of  Delegates  are  pre- 
served in  the  journals  of  that  body,  1796-1805 ;  his  mes- 
sages, etc.,  as  governor,  in  the  legislative  journals  of  1805- 
1808 ;  his  opinions,  etc.,  as  a  judge,  in  the  respective 
court  reports  of  1808-1811  and  1811-1851. 

"  He  died  at  his  residence  in  Richmond,  on  Wednesday 
night,  January  12,  1853,  aged  80  years  and  27  days." 

On  Friday,  January  14,  on  motion  of  Mr.  Saunders,  the 
Senate  of  Virginia  adjourned  as  a  mark  of  respect  to  his 
memory.  On  motion  of  Mr.  Rives,  the  House  of  Delegates 
did  likewise. 

On  the  same  day,  at  a  meeting  of  the  judges  of  the  Court 
of  Appeals,  of  the  members  of  the  bar,  and  officers  of  the 
court,  in  the  court-room  of  the  state  court  house  in  the  city 
of  Richmond,  held  to  express  their  sense  of  the  exalted 
character  of  the  Hon.  William  H.  Cabell,  and  their  condo- 
lence with  his  family  for  his  decease,  the  Hon.  John  J. 
Allen  was  called  to  the  chair,  and  Mr.  G.  N.  Johnson 
appointed  secretary.  Mr.  Macfarland  delivered  a  brief  but 
touching  eulogy  upon  the  deceased,  and  submitted  the  fol- 
lowing among  other  resolutions,  which  were  unanimously 
adopted :  — 

"  Resolved,  that  we  cherish,  and  shall  ever  retain,  a  grate- 
ful remembrance  of  the  signal  excellence  of  the  Hon.  Wil- 
liam H.  Cabell,  as  well  in  his  private  as  in  his  public  life. 


254  THE   CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

There  were  no  bounds  to  the  esteem  which  he  deserved  and 
enjoyed.  Of  conspicuous  ability,  learning,  and  diligence, 
there  were  combined  therewith  a  simplicity,  uprightness,  and 
courtesy  which  left  nothing  to  be  supplied  to  insjnre  and 
confirm  confidence  and  respect.  It  was  natural  to  love  and 
honor  him ;  and  both  loved  and  honored  was  he  by  all  who 
had  an  opportunity  of  observing  his  unwearied  benignity  or 
his  conduct  as  a  judge.  In  that  capacity  wherein  he  labored 
for  forty  years  in  our  Supreme  Court  of  Appeals,  having 
previously  served  the  State  as  Governor  and  Circuit  Judge, 
such  was  his  uniform  gentleness,  application,  and  ability, 
so  impartial,  patient,  and  just  was  he,  of  such  remarkable 
clearness  of  perception  and  perspicuity,  precision,  and  force 
in  stating  convictions,  that  he  was  regarded  with  warmer 
feelings  than  those  of  merely  official  reverence.  To  him  is 
due  much  of  the  credit  which  may  be  claimed  for  our  judi- 
cial system  and  its  literature.  It  was  an  occasion  of  pro- 
found regret  when  his  infirmities  of  age,  about  two  years 
since,  required  him  to  retire  from  the  bench  ;  and  again  are 
we  reminded  by  his  death  of  the  irreparable  loss  sustained 
by  the  public  and  the  profession." 

A  copy  of  the  resolutions  were  sent  to  his  family,  and 
they  were  also  entered  upon  the  records  of  the  Court  of 
Appeals. 

The  meeting  resolved  to  attend  his  funeral,  and  to  wear 
for  one  month  the  usual  bado-e  of  mourning-. 

His  funeral  took  place  from  St.  Paul's  (Episcopal)  Church, 
of  which  he  was  a  member,  on  Saturday  morning,  January 
15.  The  sermon  was  preached  by  Rev.  Alexander  Jones, 
from  the  twelfth  verse  of  the  ninetieth  Psalm :  "  So  teach 
us  to  number  our  days  that  we  may  apply  our  hearts  unto 
wisdom."  He  alluded  to  Judge  Cabell's  great  integrity 
and  loveliness  of  character,  the  clearness  of  his  opinions,  the 
extent  of  his  acquirements,  the  uprightness  of  his  purposes, 
his  uncommon  mind,  etc.,  and  asked :  "  If  men  placed  faith 
in  his  decisions  upon  points  of  law,  should  they  not  also 
have  faith  in  his  ojiinions  and  judgment  with  regard  to  the 
subject  of  religion  ?  " 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        255 

He  was  buried  in  Shockoe  Hill  Cemetery,  in  the  section 
with  his  grandson,  William  C.  Carrington  (489). 

There  were  many  complimentary  notices  of  him  in  the 
newspapers  of  the  day.  The  notice  in  the  "  Richmond 
Whig "  concludes  as  follows :  "  The  eminent  ability  with 
which  he  performed  his  judicial  functions  won  for  him  the 
appellation  of  the  '  Mansfield  of  Virginia/  the  admiration 
of  the  bar,  and  the  universal  esteem  and  confidence  of  the 
people  of  the  State.  A  purer  and  better  man  in  all  the 
relations  of  life  never  lived  in  the  State,  and  a  fairer  speci- 
men of  the  perfect  gentleman  could  not  be  found  any- 
where." 

Agnes  Sarah  Bell  Gamble,  the.  second  wife  of  Gov. 
Cabell,  daughter  of  Col.  Robert  Gamble,  was  born  August 
22,  1783,  and  died  February  15,  1863,  at  the  residence  of 
her  son.  Dr.  J.  G.  Cabell,  in  Richmond.  A  woman  of  the 
loveliest  character,  she  had  been  for  many  years  a  devout 
member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church.  She  continuously 
urged  her  husband  to  accompany  her  to  church,  but  with 
only  occasional  success.  He  had  been  brought  up  in  the 
Episcopal  faith.  On  one  occasion,  about  twenty  years 
before  his  death,  in  a  spirit  of  pleasantry  he  replied  to  her 
urging  :  "  You  know  I  don't  consider  yours  the  true  faith. 
Now,  if  you  will  join  my  church.  The  Church,  I  will  always 
go  with  you."  She  smiled,  but  said  nothing  then.  The 
next  Sunday  she  said :  "  Now,  husband,  you  must  go  with 
me  to  church  to-day.  I  have  united  myself  with  the  Epis- 
copal Church,  —  your  church,  —  and  have  taken  a  pew  for 
us  in  Bishop  Moore's  church." 

The  judge  kissed  his  devoted  wife,  and  after  that  at- 
tended service  with  her  regularly,  becoming  a  communicant. 

On  his  death-bed  he  called  all  of  his  children  around 
him,  and  said  to  them  :  "  My  children,  ever  love  and  honor 
your  dear  mother.  She  richly  deserves  your  tenderest 
affections.  She  and  I  have  been  married  nearly  fifty  years, 
and  every  day  has  been  a  wedding  day." 

Col.  Robert  Gamble  (her  father)  was  born  September  3, 


256  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

1754,  in  Augusta  County,  Va. ;  educated  at  the  "  Augusta 
Academy,"  which  has  developed  into  the  Washington  and 
Lee  University ;  began  Hfe  as  a  merchant ;  entered  the 
Revohitionary  army  as  a  heutenant,  and  soon  became  a 
captain  in  the  Continental  line ;  fought  at  Princeton,  Mon- 
mouth, Stony  Point,  and  in  other  battles  of  the  Revolution, 
both  in  the  Northern  and  Southern  departments. 

He  was  a  captain  in  Col.  Febiger's  Virginia  regiment, 
and  at  Stony  Point  led  a  company  in  the  select  body  of 
150  men  under  Lieut.-Col.  Fleury.  He  claimed  that  his 
men  entered  the  fort  first ;  that  after  the  capture,  and  while 
he  was  attending  to  securing  the  prisoners,  Fleury  came  up, 
and,  seeing  the  flag  still  flying,  hauled  it  down,  thrust  it  in 
his  bosom,  and  gained  great  eclat  by  the  act.  Beheving 
that  the  gallant  action  of  his  command  should  have  been 
mentioned  in  Wayne's  report,  Ca^Dt.  Gamble  complained  to 
Gen.  Washington,  who,  while  admitting  the  injustice, 
appealed  to  his  patriotism,  saying  that  it  was  of  the  last 
importance  to  prevent  any  discord  or  jealousy  from  arising 
either  among  our  own  troops  or  our  French  aUies,  and 
therefore  Capt.  Gamble  urged  his  complaint  no  further. 
He  was  permanently  deafened  by  the  concussion  of  the 
guns  at  Stony  Point,  and  was  taken  prisoner  in  South  Caro- 
lina, where  he  served  under  Greene,  and  for  a  time  on  the 
staff  of  Baron  De  Kalb.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Virginia 
Society  of  the  Cincinnati. 

He  married  Catharine  Grattan,  and,  after  the  war, 
entered  the  mercantile  business,  in  partnership  with  his 
brother-in-law,  Robert  Grattan,  on  Main  and  Augusta 
streets,  Staunton.  In  1787,  he  was  a  lieutenant-colonel  of 
Augusta  militia.  In  1790,  he  removed  to  Richmond,  and 
became  one  of  the  most  prosperous  merchants  and  influ- 
ential citizens  of  that  city.  Gamble's  Hill  was  named  for 
him.  His  death,  which  resulted  from  being  thrown  from 
his  horse,  occurred  on  April  12,  1810.  He  was  buried  in 
St.  John's  Burial  Ground,  in  Richmond,  Va.,  where  memo- 
rials of  stone  have  been  erected  by  his  children  to  him  and 


COL     ROBERT  GAMBLE 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        257 

to  his  wife.  Many  references  to  him  have  been  preserved  in 
Kennedy's  "  Memoirs  of  WilHam  Wirt,"  in  "  Richmond  in 
By-gone  Days,"  and  in  various  histories,  etc.,  of  that  city. 
He  was  the  son  of  James  Gamble  (born  1729),  the  son  of 
Robert  Gamble,  who  left  Londonderry,  Ireland,  his  native 
place,  and  emigrated  to  Augusta  County,  Va.,  about  1735. 
The  Gambles  were  originally  from  Scotland. 

Catharine  Grattan  (the  wife  of  Col.  Robert  Gamble)  was 
born  in  Ireland  in  1753,  and  came  with  her  parents  to 
America  when  she  was  eight  years  old.  She  possessed 
great  energy  and  decision  of  character,  and  a  degree  of 
moral  and  physical  courage  equal  to  any  emergency.  Once, 
while  living  on  the  frontiers,  she  rode  thirty  miles  in  one 
night,  with  her  sister's  infant  in  her  lap,  to  notify  the  settle- 
ments of  the  approach  of  the  Indians.  She  died  December 
24,  1831,  in  her  seventy-ninth  year,  and  was  buried  by  her 
husband  in  St.  John's  Burial  Ground,  Richmond,  Va.  Her 
father,  Maj.  John  Grattan  (the  emigrant),  and  his  wife 
were  born  and  married  in  Ireland,  near  the  city  of  Belfast. 
"  The  great  orator  and  patriot,  Henry  Grattan,  was  his 
kinsman."  He  settled  in  the  present  County  of  Rocking- 
ham, on  the  north  branch  of  the  Shenandoah,  about  1761, 
having  come  from  Ireland  via  Philadelphia.  In  1774, 
he  was  a  churchwarden  of  Augusta  Parish.  At  the  first 
court  of  the  new  county  of  Rockingham,  April  27,  1778, 
he  was  one  of  the  first  justices  of  the  peace,  and  one  of  the 
first  coroners.  He  built  the  first  good  flour-mill  in  the  val- 
ley ;  was  a  merchant  engaged  in  a  large  trade  and  barter 
business,  with  Philadelphia  as  his  seaport. 

27.  William  H.=^  and  (his  first  wife)  (16)  Elizabeth^ 
Cabell  had  issue  :  — 

i.  Nicholas  Carrington,  b.  February  9,  1796,  at 
"Union  Hill;"  William  and  Mary  College, 
1816;  lawyer;  d.  October  13,  1821,  at  "Mon- 
tevideo ;  "  buried  at  "  Liberty  Hall ; "  unmar- 
ried. 
129.  ii.  Louisa  Elizabeth  *. 


130. 

V. 

131. 

vi. 

132. 

vii. 

viii. 

133. 

ix. 

134. 

X. 

135. 

xi. 

258  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR   KIN 

iii.  Abraham  Joseph,  b.  April  24,  1800,  at  "  Union 
Hill ;  "  William  and  Mary  College,  1818  ;  doc- 
tor ;  d.  in  October,  1831,  at  "  Dulce  Domum," 
his  residence  in  Florida ;  buried  at  Attalulga, 
Jefferson  County,  Fla. 

27.  William  H.^  and  (his  second  wife)  Agnes  S.  B.  Gam- 
ble Cabell  had  issue  :  — 

iv.  Catharine  Ann,  b.  August  12,  1806 ;  d.  October 
12,  1807. 

Emma  Catharine*. 

Robert  Gamble  *. 

Ehzabeth  Hannah*. 

William  Wirt,  b.  November  1,  1813,  d.  unmar- 
ried. 

Edward  Carrington  *. 

John  Grattan  *. 

Henry  Coalter  *. 

28.  George^  Ccibell,  born  October  5,  1774,  at  Warmin- 
ster ;  studied  medicine  in  Lynchburg,  under  Dr.  George  ^ 
Cabell,  Sr.  (22),  and  "  completed  his  medical  education  in 
the  Medical  Department  of  the  University  of  Penn."  He 
was  known  as  Dr.  George  Cabell,  Jr.,  to  distinguish  him 
from  his  first  cousin,  Dr.  George  Cabell,  Sr.  (22),  the  son 
of  his  uncle.  Col.  John  ^.  It  is  sometimes  hard  to  distin- 
guish between  the  two  in  the  Cabell  papers. 

Dr.  George  Cabell,  Jr.,  married  (first)  January  15, 
1798,  Susanna  Wyatt.  His  father  gave  him  the  estate  just 
below  Midway,  and  he  built  the  "  Bon  Aire "  mansion 
house,  where  he  lived  and  practiced  his  profession  with 
much  success  in  the  surrounding  country,  as  well  as  in 
Lynchburg. 

He  was  in  partnership  with  his  brother-in-law,  Dr.  Wil- 
liam B.  Hare,  for  some  years,  and,  I  think,  until  about 
1804,  when  Dr.  Hare  moved  from  "  Warminster  "  to  "  Hare- 
wood." 

On  September  22,  1804,  Patrick  Henry,  Jr.,  died,  and 
four  days  after  Dr.  Cabell  wrote  from  Lynchburg  to  Col. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        259 

William  Cabell,  saying :  "  Our  distress  on  receiving  yester- 
day the  melancholy  intelligence  of  Mr.  P.  Henry's  untimely 
death  may  be  more  easily  imagined  than  expressed.  We 
sincerely  sympathize  with  his  distressed  relatives  on  the 
unhappy  event,  and  shall  always  cherish  with  peculiar  pleas- 
ure the  fond  remembrance  of  his  many  amiable  and  endear- 
ing good  qualities  and  virtues." 

I  infer  from  the  letter  that  he  was  then  practicing  in 
Lynchburg.  I  have  a  note  from  Gustavus  A.  Rose,  dated 
October  5,  1806,  showing  that  he  was  then  studying  medi- 
cine under  Dr.  Cabell,  in  Lynchburg.  From  1807  to  1817, 
inclusive,  I  have  medical  accounts  showing  that  he  was 
practicing  in  this  neighborhood  during  this  period.  In 
1816  and  1817,  he  was  in  partnership  with  Dr.  Southall. 
I  have  several  of  his  letters,  but  they  relate  to  his  profes- 
sion or  practice,  mostly. 

His  wife  died  in  July,  1817,  about  which  time  he  removed 
to  Richmond.  He  was  an  earnest  Mason,  a  member  of 
Richmond  Randolph  Lodge  No.  19,  and  frequently  repre- 
sented that  lodge  in  the  "  Grand  Annual  Communication 
of  the  Grand  Lodo^e  of  Vir ovinia."  He  served  the  Grand 
Lodge  on  many  important  committees.  In  1820  and  1821, 
he  was  a  District  Deputy  Grand  Master;  in  1822,  Grand 
Senior  Warden  ^;ro  tern.,  etc.  His  book-plate  bore  a  Ma- 
sonic device. 

He  married,  secondly,  Eliza  Fitzhugh  May  (born  Decem- 
ber 13,  1794,  died  January  20,  1859),  "at  Col.  Wm. 
Mayo's  Plantation."  She  was  the  daughter  of  George  and 
Anna  Fitzhugh  May,  and  sister  of  Judge  John  F.  May,  of 
Petersburg.     He  had  no  issue  by  her. 

He  sold  "  Bon  Aire  "  during  his  life,  but  the  date  of  the 
sale  is  not  known  to  me.     He  died  February  22,  1827. 

Susanna  Wyatt,  his  first  wife  and  the  mother  of  his  chil- 
dren, was  a  daughter  of  Col.  John  Wyatt  by  his  wife  Wil- 
helmina  Jordan,  a  daughter  of  Col.  Samuel  Jordan  by  his 
second  wife,  Mrs.  Judith  Scott  Ware. 

Col.   John   Wyatt,   whose   elder   brother,    Col.    Thomas 


260  THE   CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

Wyatt,  came  to  Amherst  some  years  before  the  Revohition, 
was  from  King  and  Queen  County,  Va.  He  was  a  soldier  in 
the  Revolution ;  after  the  war  he  resided  on  his  plantation 
in  Amherst ;  he  removed  to  Lynchburg  soon  after  its  estab- 
lishment, about  1787,  "  where  to  the  day  of  his  death,  he 
continued  a  useful  and  revered  resident."  He  was  mayor 
of  Lynchburg  town  in  1806. 

He  was  appointed,  by  the  Episcopal  Convention  of  1814, 
on  the  committee  to  aid  in  "  providing  for  the  raising  of  a 
fund  to  be  applied  to  the  support  of  clergymen  in  vacant 
parishes  of  this  State."  His  will  was  dated  February  17, 
1827,  and  proved  March  5,  1827.  His  wife  survived  him 
some  years,  and  died  at  the  residence  of  her  son-in-law, 
Capt.  William  Norvell,  in  Lynchburg.  (See  "Sketches  and 
Recollections  of  Lynchburg.")  "  Col.  Wyatt  was  descended 
from  the  family  of  that  name  which  was  especially  promi- 
nent in  the  earliest  days  of  the  Colony  of  Virginia."  I 
suppose  that  he  descended  from  Rev.  Hawte  Wyatt  (for 
several  years  minister  at  Jamestown),  the  brother  of  Sir 
Francis  Wyatt,  the  last  governor  of  Virginia  under  the 
Company  (1621-1624),  and  the  first  under  the  crown 
(1621-1626).  A  grandson  of  Sir  Thomas  Wyatt,  the 
rebel ;  son  of  Sir  Thomas  Wyatt,  the  poet. 

28.  Dr.  George  ^  and  Susanna  Wyatt  Cabell  had  issue  :  — 

i.  William  H.,  b.  in  September,  1799 ;  d.  infant, 
ii.  Camilla  Anne,  b.  February  7,  1802 ;  d.  August  9, 
1803. 

136.  iii.  John  Nicholas*. 

iv.  George    Mortimer,  b.   September    17,    1806 ;    d. 
October  1,  1806. 

137.  V.  Elizabeth  C.^ 

138.  vi.  James  Lawrence*. 

29.  Elizabeth  ^  Cabell  was  born  May  5,  1776.  She  was 
married  at  Liberty  Hall  on  July  11,  1793,  to  Dr.  William 
B.  Hare. 

Dr.  Hare  was  born  in  King  and  Queen  County  in  1760. 
"Although  of  the  medical  profession,  like  most  men  of 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN         261 

education  at  that  day,  he  took  much  interest  in  polities, 
being  an  ardent  Republican,"  and  is  said  to  have  represented 
his  native  county  before  his  removal  to  Amherst.  To 
which  county  he  came  prior  to  1791,  in  which  year  he  prac- 
ticed in  the  family  of  Col.  William  Cabell,  Jr.,  at  Colleton. 
He  resided  in  Warminster,  and  after  his  marriage  repre- 
sented the  county  of  Amherst  in  the  House  of  Delegates  in 
1799-1801,  and  possibly  in  1802,  during  which  time  he 
was  practicing  his  profession  in  partnership  with  his  brother- 
in-law.  Dr.  George  Cabell,  Jr. 

His  wife,  Elizabeth  Cabell,  died  November  28,  1802,  and 
some  time  thereafter  he  removed  to  his  estate,  called  "  Hare- 
wood,"  on  one  of  the  upper  tributaries  of  Tye  River,  in  the 
present  county  of  Nelson. 

He  represented  this  district  in  the  state  Senate  from  1805 
to  1810  inclusive,  and  probably  in  1803-1804.  He  was  a 
man  of  complaisant,  agreeable  manners,  friendly  and  affa- 
ble, and  very  popular.  His  letters  to  Col.  William  Cabell, 
Jr.,  of  "  Union  Hill,"  are  of  the  kindest,  most  cordial  char- 
acter :  "  It  affords  me  real  pleasure  to  render  you  any  ser- 
vice at  any  time."  Even  when  busily  engaged  in  the  state 
Senate,  he  finds  time  to  see  that  Col.  Cabell's  groceries  are 
properly  packed  and  properly  shipped.  And  if  Col.  Cabell 
wants  an  advance  on  his  tobacco,  he  "  immediately "  sees 
Col.  Gamble,  secures  the  funds,  and  remits  at  once.  I  have 
many  of  his  letters. 

In  1808,  he  was  one  of  the  first  justices  for  the  new 
county  of  Nelson,  serving  as  such  the  remainder  of  his  life. 

In  1810,  he  was  chosen  a  member  of  the  Council  of 
State,  and  served  as  such  during  the  usual  term. 

May  24,  1810,  he  wrote  to  Col.  William  Cabell  from 
Richmond  relative  to  Mrs.  Elvira  A.  Henry's  interests  in 
the  Henry  estate :  "  Should  any  steps  be  taken  in  opposi- 
tion to  the  decision  of  the  Chancellor,  Mr.  Wirt  has  been 
engaged  to  assist  Col.  Wm.  Daniel  and  promised  to  pay  the 
strictest  attention  to  Mrs.  Henry's  interest."  In  this  letter 
he  alludes  to  his  lono'-continued  bad  health. 


262  THE   CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

Dr.  Hare  is  frequently  mentioned  in  the  letters  of  Wil- 
liam Wirt. 

After  the  expiration  of  his  term  as  councillor,  he  retired 
from  public  life,  as  he  had  long  before  from  professional 
life,  and  thereafter  resided  on  his  farm  until  his  death,  a 
notice  of  which  in  the  "  Richmond  Enquirer "  begins  as 
follows :  "  On  June  28,  1818,  died  Dr.  Wm.  B.  Hare  in  his 
58th  year,  at  his  seat  in  Nelson  Co.  This  inestimable  man 
exhibited  throughout  life  the  most  spotless  example  of  moral 
worth,  and  died  without  a  single  detraction  from  his  fame." 

On  Christmas  Day,  1833,  only  eight  weeks  before  Mr. 
Wirt's  death,  and  fifteen  years  after  Dr.  Hare's,  Mr.  Wirt 
wrote  from  Baltimore  to  Judge  Cabell  in  Richmond :  "  A 
merry  Christmas  to  you,  my  dear  Cabell,  and  to  all  your  fire- 
side !  I  said  to  Mrs.  Wirt  just  now,  '  Let  us  send  for  Dr. 
Hare  and  Cabell  to  help  us  make  egg-nog  for  our  compajiy.' 
Poor  dear  Hare  !  Do  you  remember  how  delighted  he  was 
with  his  occupation  at  our  sideboard,  in  the  dining-room  of 
our  white  house  in  Richmond  ?  How  he  would  talk  and 
beat  away,  and  laugh,  and  walk  across  the  room  occasion- 
ally to  the  fireplace !  I  think  I  can  see  him  now,  every 
moment  hear  his  voice,  see  his  dry,  funny  smile,  and  smack 
of  his  Hps  on  tasting  the  egg-nog  —  and  the  wise  shake  of 
his  head  —  ^  It  is  mighty  near  right,  but  not  quite  :  I  think 
it  wants  a  little  more  spirit  —  what  do  you  think,  Mr.  Ca- 
bell ?  '  Bless  his  old  heart,  I  say  again  !  Alas  !  How  long 
has  it  been  since  that  excellent  heart  has  ceased  to  beat ! 
Oh  world !  world  !  this  poor  bargain  of  life !  if  bargain  it 
may  be  called,  in  which  we  had  no  voice.  Yet  what  an 
excellent  bargain  we  used  to  think  it  in  those  days  when  we 
were  in  the  prime  of  our  manhood,  doing  well,  and  all  our 
friends  living  and  smiling  around  us  !  " 

And  so  to  that  noble  old  man's  great  heart  came  crowd- 
ing upon  him  the  fond  recollections  of  the  dearest  friends 
of  his  younger  days.  And  with  him  we  ask,  "  Where  are 
all  these  friends  of  those  halcyon  days  of  the  past  ?  Where 
are  all  their  children  ?     What  of  them  ?  "     It  is  to  answer 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        263 

such  questions  as  these  that  such  works  as  this  are  writ- 
ten :  to  preserve  the  memories  of  our  ancestors ;  to  recall 
their  virtues,  services,  and  accomplishments,  in  "  the  camp, 
the  court,  the  grove,"  on  the  field,  the  forum,  and  by  the 
fireside,  to  their  descendants,  in  order  that  the  ancient 
lights  of  this  grand  old  commonwealth  may  not  go  out 
forever. 

29.  Elizabeth  2  Cabell  and  Hon.  WilHam  B.  Hare  had 
issue :  — 

139.  i.    Hannah  Henningham  *. 

140.  ii.    Sarah  EHzabeth  ^ 

iii.    William  Nicholas  Cabell  ^  b.  November  5, 1802; 
d.  August  6,  1803. 

30.  Joseph  Carrington  ^  Cabell  was  born  December  26, 
1778 ;  was  educated  by  tutors  at  home ;  at  Hampden  Sid- 
ney College  in  1795-1796,  and  after  at  WilHam  and  Mary, 
where  he  took  the  A.  B.  degree. 

He  was  stiU  a  youth  when  his  uncle  William's  diary 
ended  in  1795,  and  the  following,  I  believe,  is  the  only  ref- 
erence to  him  therein  :  — 

"June  22nd,  1791.  Sent  my  brother  N.  Cabell  several 
books,  including  Ainsworth's  Latin  Dictionary  of  the  larg- 
est and  best  edition.     Sent  them  by  his  son  Joseph." 

He  was  educated  for  the  law,  but  I  believe  never  prac- 
ticed it.  He  embarked  for  Europe  November  23,  1802, 
and  returned  June  1,  1806.  On  January  1,  1807,  he 
married  in  Williamsburg,  Va.,  Miss  Mary  Walker  Carter. 
He  had  inherited  from  his  father  the  Slaty  Branch  (now 
"  Laneville ")  estate,  a  mile  or  so  below  Warminster,  and 
after  his  marriage  he  purchased  from  Mr.  Robert  Rives  the 
"  Edge  wood  "  property,  which  was  his  home  the  rest  of  his 
life. 

In  1808,  he  was  one  of  the  first  justices  for  the  new 
county  of  Nelson,  and  I  think  this  was  the  first  public  office 
held  by  him.  In  after  years,  he  was  offered  honorable  posi- 
tions in  the  diplomatic  service  abroad,  and  was  repeatedly 
solicited  to  become  a  candidate  for  the  Federal  Congress ; 


264  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

but  he  had  dedicated  his  life  to  his  native  State,  and 
declined  both.  He  is  also  said  to  have  "  declined  Cabinet 
appointments  under  Mr.  Monroe,  i£  not  Mr.  Madison." 
He  was  a  member  of  the  state  legislature,  either  in  the 
House  of  Delegates  or  Senate,  for  about  thirty  years ;  of 
the  House  in  1808-1809  and  1809-1810,  and  again  from 
1831  to  1835  from  Nelson  County ;  of  the  Senate  from 
1810  to  1829,  inclusive,  from  this  district. 

He  was  especially  an  advocate  of  education  and  of  in- 
ternal improvement,  being  Jefferson's  right-hand  man  in 
founding  the  University  of  Virginia,  and  "  the  father  of 
the  James  River  and  Kanawha  Canal." 

He  was  a  visitor  of  the  University  of  Virginia  from  1819 
to  his  death  in  1856 ;  the  Rector  in  1834-1836,  and  again 
from  1845  to  his  death  in  1856. 

He  was  one  of  the  original  incorporators  of  the  James 
River  and  Kanawha  Canal  Company,  chartered  March  16, 
1832,  and  at  the  meeting  of  the  stockholders  in  Richmond 
on  May  25,  1835,  was  elected  the  first  President  of  that 
company,  which  office  he  continued  to  fill  until  February 
10  or  March  5,  1846 ;  but  his  active  interest  in  the  com- 
pany only  ended  with  his  life.  He  became  a  life  member 
of  the  Virginia  Historical  Society  in  1848.  He  was  a  fre- 
quent speaker  in  the  state  Senate,  and  one  who  knew  him 
well,  and  was  well  competent  to  judge  him,  thus  wrote  of 
him :  "  I  have  heard  many  of  the  most  distinguished  ora^ 
tors  in  the  United  States ;  but  very  few  who  for  copious, 
easy,  instructive,  and  agreeable  elocution  excelled  him.  His 
Reports  as  President  of  the  James  River  and  Kanawha 
Canal  Company,  and  as  Rector  of  the  University  of  Vir- 
ginia, were  as  much  admired  for  their  style  as  for  their 
fullness  and  accuracv  of  information.  Judg^e  Allen,  late 
President  of  the  Court  of  Appeals,  is  reported  to  have 
said  that  he  considered  Mr.  Cabell's  '  Defence  of  the  Water 
line,'  one  of  the  ablest  arguments  he  had  ever  read  on  any 
subject." 

His  acts  as  a  legislator  will  be  found  in  our  legislative 


HON.  JOSEPH  CARRINGTON  CABELL 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        265 

journals ;  his  "  voluminous  and  luminous  reports,"  iii  re  the 
university  and  the  canal,  are  still  preserved.  Like  his 
brother.  Gov.  Cabell,  he  was  an  intimate  friend  of  William 
Wirt,  and  is  frequently  mentioned  in  his  correspondence. 
There  is  a  sketch  of  him  in  the  introduction  to  "  The  Cor- 
respondence of  Jefferson  and  Cabell."  He  is  frequently 
referred  to  in  the  lives  of  Jefferson.  He  was  a  man  of 
national  reputation,  and  references  to  him  will  be  found 
in  "  De  Bow's  Review,"  "Southern  Literary  Messenger" 
(1856),  and  in  various  volumes,  magazines,  and  newspapers. 
His  public  services  are  matters  of  history. 

After  his  retirement  from  public  life,  he  devoted  himself 
to  the  management  of  his  large  estates  during  the  remainder 
of  his  days. 

The  following  extracts  are  from  the  diary  of  the  late 
Mayo  Cabell,  Esq.,  of  "  Union  Hill :  "  — 

"Feb'y  4th  1856.  The  Rev.  Thos.  F.  Martin  of  the 
Episcopal  Church  administered  the  sacrament  to  Joseph  C. 
Cabell  Sr.  of  Edge  wood.  He  is  in  a  most  feeble  state,  but 
perfectly  resigned  and  in  full  faith  in  the  Saviour  of  men. 

"  Feby  5th  1856.  Departed  this  life,  Joseph  C.  Cabell  of 
Edgewood  in  the  78th  year  of  his  age.  Full  of  years  and 
full  of  honors.  He  has  left  a  spotless  name  that  will  be 
revered  and  remembered  by  all  of  his  surviving  relatives 
and  friends. 

"  Feb'y  7th.  The  interment  of  Joseph  C.  Cabell  took 
place  to-day  at  12  o'clock.  Rev.  Thos.  F.  Martin  officiated. 
Buried  in  his  garden  at  Edgewood,  by  the  side  of  Judge 
St.  George  Tucker,  and  his  wife,  and  Miss  Parke  Carter." 

The  following  explains  itself  :  — 

"  State  of  Virginia,  Executive  Department, 
February  8th,  1856. 

"  To  the  Senate  and  House  of  Delegates  of  the  General 
Assembly  of  the  State  of  Virginia :  — 

"  Gentlemen,  —  With  emotions  of  unaffected  grief,  I 
announce  to  you  that  Josejih  C.  Cabell,  late  Rector  of  the 
University  of  Virginia,  is  no  more.     He  died  at  his  resi- 


266  THE   CABELLS   AND   THEIR   KIN 

dence,  on  the  afternoon  of  the  5th  instant,  as  announced  to 
me  by  the  accompanying'  letter  from  his  relative  and  physi- 
cian, Dr.  J.  L.  Cabell,  received  here  this  morning. 

"  One  with  Mr.  Jefferson  in  founding  the  University,  a 
pioneer  in  the  State  improvements,  a  gentleman,  a  scholar, 
a  devoted  patriot  and  Virginian,  a  venerable,  good  man, 
departing  from  a  high  public  place  which  he  filled  with 
ability  and  fidelity,  I  commend  his  example  whilst  living, 
and  submit  that  his  memory  is  deserving  of  the  honor  I  pay 
him  now  that  he  is  dead. 

"  With  the  highest  respect, 

Henry  A.  Wise. 
[Governor  of  Virginia.]  " 

"  At  Edgewood,  Nelson  County,  Virginia,  on  Tuesday, 
Deer.  20th  1863,  of  a  lingering  and  painful  disease,  which 
she  bore  with  Christian  resignation  and  fortitude,  Mrs. 
Mary  W.  Cabell,  widow  of  the  late  Joseph  C.  Cabell.  She 
is  buried  in  the  graveyard  in  the  garden,  with  her  husband, 
her  mother,  and  other  relatives.     She  left  no  children." 

She  was  the  daughter  of  George  Carter,  Esq.,  of  Lancas- 
ter, and  his  wife  Lelia,  daughter  of  Sir  Peyton  Skipwith, 
Baronet.  After  the  death  of  her  first  husband,  Mrs.  Lelia 
Skipwith  Carter  married,  October  8, 1791,  Judge  St.  George 
Tucker,  being  his  second  wife ;  his  first  wife,  Mrs.  Frances 
Bland  Randolph,  was  the  mother  of  John  Randolph  of 
Roanoke. 

George  Carter,  Mrs.  Cabell's  father,  was  descended  from 
Robert,  commonly  called  "  King  Carter  of  Corotoman," 
both  throuofh  his  father  and  mother.  Mrs.  Cabell  had  an 
only  brother.  Dr.  Charles  Carter,  of  Corotoman,  who  left  an 
only  daughter.  Miss  Parke  Carter,  who  left  Corotoman  to 
her  aunt,  Mrs.  Cabell.  Thus  inheriting  so  much,  and  hav- 
ing so  much  in  her  own  right,  "  Cousin  Polly,"  as  she  was 
universally  known  in  the  family,  left  a  very  large  estate, 
and  one  of  the  most  remarkable  wills  that  ever  was  written, 
extending  with  codicil  after  codicil  until  it  made  a  large 
volume.     Having  no  faith  in  lawyers,  every  word  was  writ- 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        267 

ten  with  her  own  hand,  with  an  express  injunction  on 
almost  every  page,  and  to  every  heir,  that  "  no  lawyer 
should  have  anything  to  do  with  any  part  of  her  estate ; " 
and  the  consequence  was,  I  am  told,  that  the  lawyers  got 
three  fourths  of  it. 

30.  Joseph  C.^  and  Mary  W.  Cabell  had  no  issue. 

31.  Nicholas  ^  Cohell,  Jr.,  was  born  December  24,  1780. 
He  was  educated  by  tutors  at  home ;  at  Hampden  Sidney 
College  in  1798  and  1799 ;  and  at  William  and  Mary  in 
1800  and  1801.  "  Govr.  Wm.  H.  Cabell  thought  that  he 
had  naturally  the  best  mind  of  any  of  the  brotherhood." 
While  he  was  at  Hampden  Sidney,  Dr.  Archibald  Alexan- 
der was  president,  and  took  a  great  interest  in  this  pu2)il. 
Leaving  college,  he  took  charge  of  his  father's  private 
affairs,  which  during  his  father's  long  public  life  had  be- 
come somewhat  embarrassed.  His  strict  business  qualities, 
and  his  practical  progressive  system  of  agriculture,  soon 
enabled  him  to  clear  the  estate  of  every  incumbrance. 

He  met  his  wife,  Miss  Margaret  Read  Venable,  while 
attending  Hampden  Sidney  College,  and  married  her  on 
October  20,  1802.  They  lived  with  his  father,  and  at  his 
father's  death  he  inherited  the  Liberty  Hall  estate  proper, 
and  I  believe  the  house  which  had  been  the  home  of  his 
grandfather,  old  Dr.  Cabell. 

He  was  a  captain  of  the  militia  of  his  neighborhood,  his 
commission  being  dated  July  22,  1805,  and  one  of  the  first 
justices  of  the  county,  the  date  of  his  commission  being 
June  21,  1808. 

As  early  as  1801,  he  showed  symptoms  of  consumption. 
In  1808,  while  at  "  the  Red  Sulphur  Springs  "  in  Monroe 
County,  the  waters  of  which  were  thought  to  be  beneficial 
to  consumptives,  he  went  out  deer-hunting  with  Samuel 
Hansborough,  Esq.  They  were  separated  in  the  mountains, 
when  his  comrade  heard  the  report  of  his  gun,  and  going  to 
him  found  him  sitting  on  a  stone,  looking  much  fatigued 
and  very  pale. 

"  In  God's  name,  Nicholas,  what  is  the  matter  ?  " 


268  THE   CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

"  Sam,  I  have  killed  the  deer,  but  I  have  also  killed  my- 
self.    Look  here !  but  do  not  tell  my  wife." 

The  exertion  had  brought  on  a  fresh  hemorrhage,  and 
the  leaves  and  ground  at  his  feet  were  reddened  with  his 
blood.  He  soon  returned  home,  where  he  lingered  until 
June  25,  1809.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church,  and  died  in  the  faith  and  hope  of  a  Christian.  He 
was  buried  in  the  family  graveyard  at  Liberty  Hall. 

His  wife,  Margaret  Read  Venable,  born  May  11,  1782, 
after  the  death  of  her  husband  removed  with  her  children 
to  her  father's.  After  her  son  Francis  reached  manhood, 
she  returned  with  him  to  Liberty  Hall,  and  spent  the  most 
of  her  remaining  days  there. 

"May  31st  1857,  Mrs.  Margaret  R.  Cabell  of  Liberty 
Hall  departed  this  life.  An  early,  a  constant  and  true 
friend.  She  died  as  she  had  lived  for  40  years  of  her  life, 
a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  a  true  disciple  of 
Christ  and  with  the  bright  hope  of  the  Christian  in  her 
death.  She  will  be  interred  on  June  2nd  in  the  Liberty 
Hall  Burying-ground."     (Mayo  Cabell.) 

Her  father,  Samuel  Woodson  Venable,  of  Prince  Edward 
County,  born  September  19,  1756,  was  ensign  of  the  Hamp- 
den Sidney  Academy  Company  in  1776,  and  was  afterwards 
a  student  at  Princeton,  N.  J.  Early  in  1781,  he  was  an 
officer  in  Capt.  Thomas  Watkins'  company  of  Prince  Edward 
dragoons,  in  which  the  famous  Peter  Francisco  was  a  pri- 
vate, which  company  distinguished  itself  on  March  16,  in 
the  battle  of  Guilford  Court  House.  On  August  15,  1781, 
he  married  Mary,  the  oldest  daughter  of  Judge  Paul  Car- 
rington,  the  elder.     (See  under  11.) 

In  1782,  he  was  a  trustee  of  Hampden  Sidney  Academy, 
and,  in  1783,  of  Hampden  Sidney  College.  He  was  re- 
garded as  one  of  the  main  founders  of  the  college.  I  have 
several  letters  from  him  to  his  brother-in-law.  Col.  WilHam 
Cabell,  Jr.,  of  Union  Hill ;  they  relate  mainly  to  lands  in 
Kentucky  given  them  by  Judge  Carrmgton,  and  attended 
to  by  John  Breckinridge. 


NICHOLAS   CABELL,   JR.,    ESQ. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        269 

"  Dr.  Archibald  Alexander  was  accustomed  to  speak  of 
him  as  the  most  remarkable  instance  of  wisdom  matured  by 
experience  and  observation  that  he  had  ever  known  ;  in 
which  respect  he  was  fond  of  comparing  him  to  Franklin." 
He  died  September  7,  1821,  at  the  Sweet  Springs,  Va.,  leav- 
ing twelve  children,  all  of  whom  married  and  left  issue. 

His  father,  Nathaniel  Venable,  born  Nowmberi?  1733,  in 
Hanover  County,  married  March  29,  1755,  Elizabeth 
Woodson,  of  Prince  Edward  ;  member  House  of  Burgesses  ; 
merchant,  first  at  New  Store,  Buckingham  County,  and 
afterwards  at  Prince  Edward  Court  House;  vestryman  of 
St.  Patrick's  Parish  (the  vestry  book  in  his  handwriting  is 
now  at  the  Episcopal  Seminary  near  Alexandria) ;  "  became 
a  rabid  republican,  left  the  establishment,  and  organized  the 
first  Presbyterian  Church  in  Prince  Edward  County ; "  was 
a  justice  of  the  peace  of  his  county,  and  member  of  the  Vir- 
ginia House  of  Delegates.  He  was  one  of  the  earliest  pro- 
moters, and  one  of  the  first  trustees  (in  1775)  of  Hampden 
Sidney  Academy,  and,  in  1783,  of  Hampden  Sidney  Col- 
lege. "  He  was  the  real  founder  of  Hampden  Sidney  Col- 
lege, and  supported  it  during  a  portion  of  the  time  of  the 
Revolutionary  war."     He  died  December  27,  1804. 

His  father,  Abraham  V enables,  was  born  "  22  March 
1700  "  (0.  S.  or  N.  S.  ?) ;  he  married,  about  1723,  Martha 
(or  Hannah)  Davis,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  Davis,  from 
Devonshire,  England,  a  Quaker  of  Hanover  County,  Va. 
(She  was  born  July  14,  1703;  died  February  13,  1765. 
She  is  said  to  have  been  an  aunt  to  Dr.  William  Cabell's 
first  wife.  They  were  related,  but  what  the  relationship 
was,  in  the  absence  of  direct  evidence,  I  cannot  say.) 
Abraham  Venables  owned  a  great  deal  of  land  in  this  sec- 
tion in  Hanover,  Louisa,  and  Goochland  counties,  and  also 
on  "  Ye  Byrd  creek "  (near  the  present  Louisa  and  Flu- 
vanna line),  on  Hardware  Kiver,  and  in  the  South  Garden, 
Albemarle.  In  my  papers  the  name  is  spelled  "  Venable.9  " 
prior  to  1750 ;  after,  the  final  "  s  "  is  seldom  used.  He 
had  been  a  justice  of  the  peace  in  Hanover,  and  was  one  of 


270  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

the  first  justices  of  the  peace  of  Louisa,  from  the  first 
County  Court,  December  24?  1742 ;  was  a  vestryman  of 
Fredericksville  Parish,  1742-1761,  and  of  Trinity  Parish, 
1762-1768 ;  and  probably  of  St.  Paul's,  Hanover,  prior  to 
1742.  "  He  was  a  Captain  in  the  Colonial  Militia ;  for  a 
time.  County  Lieutenant  of  Louisa,  and  for  some  20  years 
Member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  from  Louisa  County. 
He  was  the  friend,  legal  client,  and  political  supporter  of 
Patrick  Henry.  His  son,  Wm.  Venable,  nominated  Patrick 
Henry  in  the  county  meeting  as  a  candidate  for  the  House 
of  Burgesses  of  1765.  He  is  said  to  have  been  the  most 
influential  man  of  his  name  that  ever  lived  in  Virginia,  and 
from  him  all  the  Virginia  Venables  descend."  His  will  is 
dated  April  11,  1768.  He  died  December  16,  1768,  and 
his  will  was  probated  January  9  following.  He  appointed 
"  my  friend,  Patrick  Henry,  trustee."  The  executors  were  : 
"  Mr.  Waddy  Thomjjson  and  my  sons  Abraham,  Nathaniel, 
Hugh  Lewis,  and  John."  [This  was  the  John  Venable 
(assistant  to  Capt.  Christopher  Irvine,  commissioner  of  the 
provision  law  of  Bedford)  who  impressed  John  Hook's 
steers,  October  10,  1781 ;  who  was  sued  by  Hook  for  the 
same  in  1783,  and  defended  by  Patrick  Henry.  The  case 
was  decided  "  for  the  plaintiff,  one  penny  damages."  Ven- 
able, who  removed  to  Georgia  in  1791,  married  Agnes  Moor- 
man, daughter  of  Charles  Moorman,  a  Quaker,  who  freed 
his  slaves  (see  Hening,  xii.  613) ;  another  of  his  daughters 
(Judith  Moorman)  was  the  first  wife  of  Christopher  An- 
thony, a  Quaker  preacher.  The  Charles  Moorman  who  was 
V enable' s  security,  also  of  Quaker  origin,  was  the  husband 
of  his  sister,  Mary  Venable,  etc.] 

Abraham  Venables  (1701-1768)  was  the  son  of  Abraham 
Venables,  who  emigrated  from  England  to  Virginia  about 
1685,  where  he  married,  about  1700,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Hugh  Lewis,  of  James  City  County,  and  widow  of  Henry 
Nicks.  He  is  said  to  have  "  died  early,  leaving  an  only 
son,"  as  aforesaid. 

Elizabeth  Woodson,  wife  of  Nathaniel  Venable  (1733- 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN        271 

1804),  was  born  in  June,  1740;  died  September  29,  1791. 
She  was  a  daughter  o£  Richard  Woodson,  of  "Poplar 
Hill,"  Prince  Edward  County,  by  his  wife,  Anne  Micheaux, 
daughter  of  Abraham  Micheaux  and  his  wife  Susanna 
Rochette,  or  la  Roche,  Huguenots.  "  In  the  reign  of  Louis 
XIV.,  during  the  religious  persecution  consequent  on  the 
revocation  of  the  Edict  of  Nantes,  Susanna  Rochette  lived 
in  Sedan,  France.  When  about  15  years  of  age  she  escaped 
to  Amsterdam,  where  she  married  Abraham  Micheaux  (a 
Huguenot),  and  continued  in  Holland  until  she  had  six 
children ;  they  emigrated  to  Virginia  and  settled  in  Hen- 
rico [some  accounts  say  Stafford]  County  early  in  the  18th 
century.  Abraham  Micheaux  was  the  nephew  of  the  cele- 
brated M.  James  Saurin,  minister  of  the  French  Church  of 
the  Savoy,  in  the  Strand,  London,  in  the  year  1703."  A 
prayer  book,  with  this  note  in  French  inscribed  on  a  blank 
page,  "  M.  Saurin,  minister,  has  sent  this  Book  of  Common 
Prayer  to  his  nephew,  Abram  Micheaux,  in  Virginia,"  was 
presented  in  1857  by  N.  F.  Cabell,  Esq.,  through  Bishop 
Meade,  to  the  Theological  Seminary  at  Alexandria. 

The  foregoing  is  the  family  tradition,  which  in  the  course 
of  time  has  gotten  somewhat  mixed.  Smiles  says  :  "  Jacques 
Saurin  was  the  greatest  of  the  Protestant  preachers.  He 
was  the  son  of  an  advocate  at  Nismes,  whose  three  sons  all 
took  refuge  in  England,  —  Jacques,  the  pulpit  orator ;  Cap- 
tain Saurin,  an  officer  in  William's  army ;  and  Louis,  some- 
time minister  of  the  French  Church  in  the  Savoy,  and  after- 
wards Dean  of  St.  Patrick's,  Ardagh.  From  Louis  were 
lineally  descended  the  Right  Revd.  James  Saurin,  Bishop 
of  Dromore,  and  the  Honorable  William  Saurin,  Attorney- 
General  for  Ireland  from  1807  to  1821.  Jacques  Saurin 
was  one  of  the  ministers  of  the  French  church  in  Thread- 
needle  Street,  London,  in  1701-1705  ;  he  then  went  to  the 
Hague,  and  Weiss  says :  *  Nothing  can  give  an  idea  of  the 
effect  produced  by  his  inspired  voice,  which  for  twenty-five 
years  resounded  beneath  the  vaulted  roof  of  the  temple  at 
the  Hague,  unless  it  be  the  profound  veneration  and  pious 


272  THE   CABELLS   AND  THEIR   KIN 

worship  with  which  the  memory  of  the  great  author,  con- 
tinually revived  by  the  perusal  of  his  writings,  has  remained 
surrounded  in  Holland.'  " 

Richard  Woodson,  of  "  Poplar  Hill,"  was  the  son  of 
Richard  Woodson  (by  his  wife,  Anne  Smith),  son  of  Robert 
Woodson  (by  his  wife  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Richard  Fer- 
ris, of  Curies,  in  Henrico),  son  of  John  Woodson,  the  emi- 
grant, who  is  said  to  have  come  to  Virginia  with  Sir  John 
Harvey  as  surgeon  to  a  company  of  soldiers. 

31.  Nicholas^  and  Margaret  Read  Venable  Cabell  had 
only  two  children  :  — 

i.  Elizabeth  Nicholas   Hare  *  Cabell,  b.  August  20, 
1803 ;  d.  July  17,  1822,  unmarried. 

141.  ii.  Nathaniel  Francis  ^  Cabell. 

32.  Mary  Ann  ^  Cabell,  born  January  2, 1783  ;  married 
May  3,  1804,  Capt.  Benjamin  Carrington.  They  lived  on 
her  husband's  estate,  near  the  mouth  of  Willis  River,  in 
Cumberland  County,  Va.  She  died  February  6,  1850,  at 
her  son-in-law's  (Daniel  J.  Hartsook,  Esq.)  in  Albemarle, 
and  was  buried  in  the  family  graveyard  at  Liberty  Hall. 
"  A  Christian  lady  greatly  beloved  of  her  family  and  friends 
—  and  a  pattern  of  domestic  virtue." 

Capt.  Benjamin  Carrington,  born  August  20,  1768 ;  died 
November  28,  1838,  was  a  son  of  Joseph  Carrington,  born 
February  6,  1741 ;  married  December  5,  1763,  Theodosia, 
daughter  of  Benjamin  Mosby,  Esq.  Joseph  Carrington 
was  a  member  of  the  Cumberland  County  Committee,  1774- 
1776 ;  member  of  the  House  of  Delegates  of  Virginia  in 
1778  and  1793  ;  a  lay  delegate  to  the  Episcopal  convention 
from  Littleton  Parish,  Cumberland,  in  1793 ;  died  April  4, 
1802.  He  was  the  sixth  son  of  Col.  George  and  Anne 
Mayo  Carrington,  of  "  Boston  Hill." 

32.  Mary  Anne  ^  Cabell  and  Capt.  Benjamin  Carrington 
had  issue :  — 

142.  i.  Joseph  Nicholas  *. 

ii.  Elizabeth  Cabell,  b.  October  1,  1807,  d.  August, 
1814. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GRANDCHILDREN  273 

143.  iii.  Sophonisba  Ann  *. 

iv.  Mayo  Booker,  h.  May  7,  1811 ;  lawyer ;  m.  May 
14,  1839,  Mary  A.  E.,  daughter  of  Judge  Wil- 
liam Nelson,  of  Hanover  County,  Va. ;  d.  Oc- 
tober 23,  1881,  s.  p. 

144.  V.  James  Lawrence  *. 

145.  vi.  Gilbert  Paul  \ 

vii.  George  William,  b.  February  11,  1817  ;  d.  Sep- 
tember 20,  1817. 

146.  viii.  Elizabeth  Hannah  ^. 

ix.  George  Booker,  b.  April  10, 1822 ;  never  married. 


PART   V. 

THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN,  THEIR 
DESCENDANTS,  AND  THOSE  ALLIED  TO  THEM 
BY  MARRIAGE;  CONTAINING  MUCH  HISTORY, 
BIOGRAPHY,  AND  GENEALOGY  SUBSEQUENT  TO 
THE  REVOLUTION;  COMING  DOWN  TO  THE 
PRESENT  TIME,  AND  RELATING  TO  CITIZENS 
OF  NEARLY  EVERY  STATE  OF  THE  UNION,  AND 
OF  SEVERAL  FOREIGN  COUNTRIES. 

"  The  past  and  present  here  unite 
Beneath  time's  flowing  tide, 
Like  footprints,  hidden  by  a  brook, 
But  seen  on  either  side. 

"  This  memory  brightens  o'er  the  past, 
As  when  the  sun,  concealed 
Behind  some  cloud  that  near  us  hangs, 
Shines  on  a  distant  field." 

Longfellow. 

I.  MARY  2  CABELL  HORSLEY'S  BRANCH. 
6.   WILLIAM  HORSLEY's   DESCENDANTS. 

33.  William^  Horsley,  born  in  1772;  a  farmer;  one 
of  the  first  magistrates  of  Nelson  County.  Va.,  in  1808  ; 
married  Sarah  Christian  (1784-1865),  daughter  of  James 
and  Martha  Christian ;  died  in  April,  1855,  leaving  issue 
three :  — 
i.  PauP  Horsley,  m.    Elizabeth  Abbott,  of  Buckingham 
County,    Va.      Issue  :    i.  Lelia  "^ ;    ii.  Benjamin ;    iii. 
William  Horsley. 
ii.  Martha^  Horsley,  m.  WiUis  Harris,  of  Nelson  County, 
Va.     Issue :  i.  William  H.^ ;  ii.  Ida ;   and  iii.  Fred- 
erick Harris. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN      275 

iii.  Mary^  Horsley,  m.    Eldridge  Jefferson,  of   Albemarle 
County,  Va.    Issue  :  i.  Sarah  ®  Jefferson. 


34.  Mary  Cabell^  Horsley  married  Micajah  Pendleton, 
of  Amherst  County,  a  nephew  of  Judge  Edmund  Pendle- 
ton, a  soldier  in  the  Revolutionary  war,  and  "  the  founder 
of  the  first  Temperance  Society  in  America."  His  father, 
Philip  Pendleton,  had  fifteen  children ;  the  estate  was  a 
case  of  long  division.  Micajah  began  life  a  poor  man,  but 
a  persevering  one.  He  is  said  to  have  been  discarded  sev- 
enteen times  by  Miss  Horsley  before  he  won  her  for  his 
wife.  He  died  at  a  great  age,  loved,  honored,  and  wealthy. 
Issue  seven  :  — 

i.  Martha  ^  Pendleton,  never  married, 
ii.  Edmund^  Pendleton,  never  married, 
iii.  Edna^  Pendleton,  m.  Dabney  P.  Gooch,  of  Am- 
herst (said  to  be  related  to  Sir  William  Gooch, 
governor  of  Virginia,  1727-1749).     Issue  :    i. 
Mary  ^  Gooch. 
iv.  Joseph^  Pendleton,  never  married. 
147.     V.  Letitia  Breckinridge  ^  Pendleton. 

vi.  Elizabeth^   Pendleton,  m.  Thomas   Emmet,  and 

left  issue  :  i.  Pendleton  Emmet, 
vii.  Robert  ^  Pendleton,  m.  Mary  Taliaferro,  of  Am- 
herst, and  left  issue  :  i.  Rosa  Pendleton. 
147.  Letitia  B.^  Pendleton  married  Hudson  Martin  Gar- 
land, Jr.       ["  He  was  a  sprightly  man  ;  a  literary  man  ;  a 
poet ;  spoke  well,  but   did  not  succeed  very  well  in  hfe." 
He  was  a  brother  of  the  late  Judge  James   Garland,  of 
Lynchburg  (sometime  M.  C),  and  of  Gen.  John  Garland, 
U.  S.  A.,    so  greatly    distinguished  in  the  Mexican  war, 
whose  daughter  married  Gen.  Longstreet,  of  the  C.  S.  A. 
His  father,  Hudson  M.  Garland,  Sr.,  was  a  lawyer  ;  repre- 
sented Amherst  in  the  Virginia  House  of  Delegates,  1805- 
1806;  captain  in  War  of  1812  ;  an  intimate  friend  of  Gen. 
Andrew  Jackson,  who  gave  him  a  cane  made  of  a  piece  of 
the  Constitution,  and  an  office  in  Washington,  which  he 


276  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR   KIN 

held  until  Tyler  came  in.  He  was  so  proud  of  his  cane 
that  he  carried  it  everywhere,  and  his  friends  called  him 
"  the  commodore."  He  was  a  son  of  James  Garland,  Jr., 
an  officer  in  the  Revolution  who  was  killed  at  Albemarle 
barracks,  while  officer  of  the  day,  by  Lawrence  Mansfield 
(a  sentinel)  by  accident.  "  James  Garland,  Jr.,  married 
Annie  Wingfield,  whose  mother  was  a  Hudson,  and  grand- 
mother a  Roy  all,  of  Bermuda  Hundred."] 

147.  Mrs.  Letitia  B.  Garland  left  issue  two  :  — 
i.  Breckinridge  C.*^  Garland. 

ii.  Henrietta  M.*^  Garland,  who  m.  Pleasant  S.  Dawson,  of 
Scottsville,  Albemarle  ;  and  had  Florence  Dawson,  who 
m.  William  Woodward  Barrow,  eldest  son  of  John 
Wylie  Barrow,  late  secretary  of  the  British  legation  at 
Rome,  and  grandson  of  the  late  Thomas  Culliford 
Barrow,  of  the  Admiralty,  Somerset  House.  Their 
children  are :  i.  Florence  Culliford  Barrow,  b.  August 
15,  1885 ;  ii.  Mary  Evertson  Barrow,  b.  June  27, 
1890 ;  iii.  Dorothy  Pendleton  Barrow,  b.  December 
3,  1893,  d.  December  5,  1894. 


35.    Robert  *  Horsley  married  Anna  Hopkins,  daughter  of 

John  Hopkins,  of  Goochland  County  Va.     Issue  six  :  — 
i.  Lavinia  ^  Horsley,  m.  Dr.  J.  J.  Twyman ;  d.  s.  p. 

ii.  Julia  ^  Horsley,  m.  Bennet  M.  De  Witt,  a  well-known 
editor  of  Democratic  papers  before  the  war.  He  is 
said  to  have  assisted  E.  A.  Pollard  with  his  Southern 
history  of  the  war.  Issue  :  i.  Mary  A.*^ ;  ii.  Louis  J. ; 
and  iii.  Bennet  M.  De  Witt,  Jr. 

iii.  Rebecca  ^  Horsley,  m.  Mr.  Austin ;  no  issue. 

iv.  Robert  Henry  Horsley,  never  married. 

v.  William  N.  Horsley,  b.  1829  ;  University  of  Virginia, 
1850 ;  graduate  Richmond  Medical  College,  1852 ;  a 
doctor ;  captain,  C.  S.  A. ;  m.  Frances  Megginson. 
Issue  :  i.  William  ^ ;  ii.  Rolfe  ;  and  iii.  Anne  Horsley. 

vi.  Archibald  Horsley,  never  married. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     277 

36.  Samuel  Cabell''  Horsley ;    at  Washington    College, 
1804-1806  ;  surgeon  in  U.  S.  Navy  ;  served  in  War  of  1812  ; 
"  was  in  Perry's  Flag  ship  at  the  battle  of  Lake  Erie,  and 
when  that  ship  went  down,  escaped  with  Commodore  Perry 
and  others  in  an  open  boat  to  another  vessel  of  the  Ameri- 
can squadron."     His   share  of  prize   money,  1 3,000.     He 
continued  in  his  post  of  surgeon  until  his  death.     He  died 
in  the  United  States  service  at  Portsmouth,  Va.,  in  1828. 
He  married  Mary  Ann  Banning-Denny  of  Talbot  County, 
Md.   (daughter   of  Mary  Tilghman   Banning   and  Robert 
Denny).     Issue :  — 
i.  William  Henry  ^  Horsley,  d.  s.  p. 
ii.  Roderick  McC.^  Horsley,  d.  s.  p. 
iii.  Samuel  CabelP  Horsley,  d.  s.  p. 

iv.  Virginia  Ann  ^  Horsley,  m.  Jacob  P.  Hartman,  of  Indi- 
ana, but  later  of  Baltimore,  Md.     Issue  :  — 
i.  Wilton  Horsley  ^  Hartman,  m.,  but  d.  s.  p. 
ii.  Otis  Campbell  ^  Hartman,  d.  s.  p. 
iii.  Jacob  Henry  ^  Hartman,  M.  D.,  of  Baltimore, 
m.  Mary  Rose  White  of  that  city.    Issue  :  i. 
Mary  Kate  ^  Hartman. 
iv.  Mary  Kate  ^  Hartman,  d.  young. 
v.  Helen  Virgina  ^  Hartman,  m.  Henry  Halsey,  of 
Pennsylvania.     Issue  :  —  i.  Cabell  ^  Halsey. 


37.  John*  Horsley,  b.  September  17,  1787;  merchant; 
farmer ;  man  of  affairs ;  m.  (first)  August  4,  1814,  Phila- 
delphia Hamilton  Dunscombe,  at  the  residence  of  Maj.  Wil- 
liam Duval,  in  Buckingham  County,  Va.  She  was  born  in 
1797 ;  died  in  March,  1817,  at  the  Elk  Creek  Mills,  and 
was  buried  at  the  residence  of  Micajah  Pendleton,  near  her 
husband's  sisters.  Her  father.  Major  Andrew  Dunscombe, 
a  soldier  of  the  Revolution,  from  New  York,  distino-uished 
as  a  financier,  was  sent  by  the  legislature  of  that  State, 
after  the  war,  to  settle  her  claim  against  the  State  of  Vir- 
ginia.    Located  in  Richmond,  and  in  1787  was  appointed 


278  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

by  tlie  executive  of  Virginia  commissioner  for  settling  the 
war  accounts  between  this  commonwealth  and  the  United 
States.  This  occupied  him  several  years,  after  which  he 
held  an  office  in  the  first  bank  established  in  Richmond, 
and  is  also  said  to  have  been  at  one  time  a  Master  in  Chan- 
cery of  Judge  Wythe's  court.  He  was  mayor  of  Richmond 
in  1795 ;  died  in  1804.  He  married  Philadelphia  Duval, 
dauo'hter  of  Col.  Samuel  Duval,  who  was  in  colonial  times 
member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  from  Hanover.  Sister  to 
Col.  Shepherd  Duval  and  Maj.  WilHam  Duval,  soldiers  of 
the  Revolution,  and  aunt  to  Gov.  WiUiam  Pope  Duval,  of 
Florida,  the  original  of  Washington  Irving's  "  Ralph  Ring- 
wood,"  and  of  J.  K.  Paulding's  "  Nimrod  WHdfire."  Maj. 
Andrew  Dunscombe's  father  was  a  Scotchman,  a  follower  of 
"  Charles  Edward  the  Pretender  "  at  Culloden.  His  mother 
was  the  daughter  of  an  Amsterdam  merchant.  His  daughter, 
Philadelphia  H.  D.  Horsley,  left  an  only  child,  named  for 
his  grandfathers. 

148.  i.  WilHam  Andrew  ^  Horsley. 

37.  John'^  Horsley  married  (second)  February  4,  1819, 
Mary  Mildred  CabeU  (112).  She  was  born  at  "  Soldier's 
Joy,"  January  15,  1802,  and  died  March  3,  1880,  at 
Mountain  Retreat."  Her  husband  died  at  "  Mountain  Re- 
treat," his  residence,  in  Nelson  County,  September  6,  1850, 
having  had  issue  by  his  second  wife  :  — 

149.  ii.  Frederick  Cabell  ^  Horsley. 

150.  iii.  Edmund  Winston  ^  Horsley. 

151.  iv.  Nicholas  Cabell  ^  Horsley. 

152.  V.  Alice  Winston  ^  Horsley. 

vi.  Paulina^  Horsley,  married  Mr.  John  Baker,   of 

Nelson.     No  issue, 
vii.  Mary  Elizabeth  ^  Horsley,  unmarried. 

153.  viii.  Frances  Mildred  ^  Horsley. 

154.  ix.  John  ^  Horsley,  Jr. 

148.  William  Andrew^  Horsley,  born  September  6, 
1815  ;  graduated.  University  of  Virginia,  1837 ;  graduated. 


DR.   WILLIAM   A.    HORSLEY 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     279 

Medical  Department,  University   of   Pennsylvania,  1841 ; 
began  the  practice  of   medicine  at    New  Market,   Nelson 
County,  Va.,  in  October,  1841,  and  continued  the  practice 
in  that  neio-hborhood   during;   life.      He    died    at    "  Rock 
Cliff,"   his  seat  on  James  River,  July  27,  1887.     At  the 
time  of  his  death  he  owned  and  occupied  a  large  and  valua- 
ble estate,  a  part  of  the  old  Cabell  domain.     He  was  a  man 
of  fine  natural  capacity  ;  a  skillful  physician ;   a  modest, 
unassuming,  and  intelligent  gentleman ;  a  diligent  and  suc- 
cessful man  of  business,  of  uprightness  and  integrity;   a 
model  husband  and  father ;  revered  by  his  household,  and 
esteemed  by  his  friends  and  neighbors.     He  married,  Octo- 
ber 2,   1845,   Eliza  G.  Perkins,  daughter  of  George  and 
Eliza  Richardson  Perkins,  of  Cumberland  County,  Va.,  who 
survives  him.     Issue  seven  :  — 
i.  Eliza  R.*^  Horsley,  b.  October  8,  1847. 
ii.  John  Dunscombe  ^  Horsley,  b.  April  30,  1849  ;  V.  M. 
I. ;  soldier,  C.  S.  A. ;  University  of  Virginia,  1868- 
1869  ;  lawyer  ;  the  present  judge  of  the  fifth  circuit 
of  Virginia ;  married,  February  23,  1879,  Mrs.  Flor- 
ence Tunstall,  widow  of  John  Tunstall,  and  daughter 
of  William  Massie  (by  his  last  wife,  Miss  Effinger), 
the  son  of  Maj.  Thomas  Massie,  of  the  Revolution. 
Issue  :  i.  Catharine  Dunscombe  ^ ;  ii.  Bland  Massie  ^ ; 
iii.  Thomas  Staples  Martin " ;  and  iv.  Eliza  Perkins  ^ 
Horsley. 
iii.  Mildred  Cabell  "^  Horsley,  born  February  22,  1851 ;  m. 
October  16,  1877,  Charles  B.  Easley  of  HaHfax.    Is- 
sue :  i.  Ehza  Perkins  ^ ;  ii.  Charles  Bruce  ^ ;  iii.  Mil- 
dred Lee  ^ ;  iv.  Andrew   Horsley  ^ ;  v.   John  Duns- 
combe ^ ;  vi.  Edmund  Taylor  ^ ;  vii.  Owen  Randolph  ^ ; 
and  viii.  Ruth  Cabell  ^  Easley. 
iv.  Ann-Maria  Perkins  ^  Horsley,  b.  December  14,  1853  ; 
m.  June  24,  1891,  Thomas  Perkins  Gantt,  of  Buck- 
ingham.    Issue  :  i.  William  Andrew  Horsley ' ;  and 
ii.  Henry  Dunscombe  ^  Gantt. 
V.  Clara  Lee  ^  Horsley,  b.  December  21,  1855. 


280  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

vi.  Mary  Perkins  ^  Horsley,  b.  October  3,  1858  ;  principal 
of  "  The  Montgomery  Female  Seminary,"  Christians- 
burg,  Va. 

vii.  Philadelphia  Dunscombe  ^  Horsley,  b.  July  21,  1864. 

149.  Frederick  Cabell^  Horsley,  born  February  22, 
1822  ;  graduated  at  Washington  College,  and  in  the  Medi- 
cal Department  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  ;  M.  D., 
California;  married  in  November,  1857,  Dora  Pleasants,  of 
California,  a  granddaughter  of  Gov.  James  Pleasants,  of 
Virginia.     Issue  three  :  — 

i.  Frederick  ^  Horsley. 
ii.  Mildred  Maude  ^  Horsley,   m.  in   April,  1893,   Oliver 

Emerson  Bennett,  of  Massachusetts. 
iii.  Cabell  ^  Horsley. 

150.  Edmund  Winston  ^  Horsley,  born  1824  ;  married  in 
February,  1851,  Lucie  Gwatkins,  of  Bedford  County,  Va. 
Issue,  three  :  — 

i.  Mina  ^  Horsley. 
ii.  Edmonia  Winston  '^  Horsley,  m.   Picton    Saunders,  of 

Bedford  City. 
iii.  Fannie  Otey  ^  Horsley,  m.  Judge  Calloway  Brown,  of 
Bedford  City. 

151.  Nicholas  Cabell  ^  Horsley,  born  1826 ;  married 
(first)  in  1852,  Elizabeth  Wilkes,  of  Bedford.  She  died, 
leaving  three  sons :  i.  Frederick  C.° ;  ii.  Benjamin  Wilkes  ^ ; 
and  iii.  Nicholas  Cabell  ^  Horsley.  He  married,  secondly, 
Nannie  Deane,  of  North  Carolina,  and  died  leaving  issue  by 
her  :  iv.  Nannie  ^ ;  v.  Irene  '^  (m.  Rev.  Mr.  Clopton,  of  Man- 
chester, Va.) ;  vi.  Kate  Winstead  ^ ;  vii.  Roland  ^ ;  and  viii. 
Mabel  ^  Horsley. 

152.  Alice  Winston^  Horsley,  married,  in  1852,  Rev. 
Samuel  W.  Watkins,  of  Prince  Edward  County,  Va.,  son  of 
Henry  E.  Watkins  (and  his  wife,  Agnes  Venable,  daughter 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  281 

of  Samuel  W.  Venable  (1756-1821)  and  his  wife,  Mary 
Carrington,  daughter  of  Judge  Paul  Carrington,  St.,  by  his 
first  wife,  Margaret  Read),  son  of  Francis  Watkins,  Sr.,  of 
"  Poplar  Hill,"  Prince  Edward  County,  Va.,  by  his  Avife, 
Agnes  Woodson,  daughter  of  Richard  Woodson  and  his 
wife,  Ann  Michaux.     See  under  No.  31,  etc. 

152.  Mrs.   Alice   Winston  ^  Watkins  is    now  livino-   in 

o 

Charlotte,  N.  C.  "  Her  husband  died  some  years  after  the 
war  leavino;  two  children  :  "  — 

i.  Mildred   Cabell^   Watkins,   compiler   and    author    of  a 
"  Primer  of  American  Literature,"  1895. 
•  ii.  Henry  Edward  ^  Watkins. 

153.  Frances  Mildred  ^  Horsley  married,  in  1869,  Robert 
P.  Anderson,  Jr.,  of  Prince  Edward  County,  Va. ;  son  of 
Robert  P.  Anderson,  Sr.  (by  his  wife,  Fanny  Park  Poin- 
dexter),  son  of  Rev.  R.  H.  Anderson  and  his  wife,  Hen- 
ningham  Venable,  daughter  of  Samuel  W.  Venable  (1756- 
1821).  She  died,  leaving :  i.  Mary  Cabell  ^ ;  ii.  Frances 
Poindexter^;  iii.  Eliza  Parke  *^;  and  iv.  Roberta  °  Ander- 
son. 

154.  John  ^  Horsley,  Jr.,  V.  M.  I. ;  member  Co.  H,  49th 
Virginia,  Early's  Brigade,  Ewell's  Division,  Jackson's  Corps, 
C.  S.  A.  He  afterwards  joined  Col.  Mosby's  Independent 
Command.  He  married,  in  1868,  Rose  Evelyn  Shelton 
[daughter  of  Dr.  John  Marshall  Shelton  (and  his  wife, 
Mary  H.  Digges),  of  Nelson  County,  Va.  He  represented 
the  county  in  the  House  of  Delegates,  1862-1864,  as  his 
grandfather.  Col.  Joseph  Shelton,  had  done  in  1813-1818 
and  1820-1824].     Issue:  — 

i.  John  Shelton^  Horsley,  an  M.  D.  of  the  University  of 
Virginia ;  a  physician  and  surgeon,  of  Staunton,  Va. 
ii.  Frederick  Melville  °  Horsley. 
iii.  Guy  Winston  ^  Horsley. 


282  THE   CABELLS  AND   THEIR   KIN 

8.   ELIZABETH  3  HORSLEY  MC  CULLOCH's  DESCENDANTS. 

38.  Mary*  McCulloch,  born  February  25,  1771,  died 
September  19,  1851 ;  married,  May  17,  1792,  Peter  Pres- 
ley Tbornton.  He  was  born  in  Brunswick  County,  Va., 
November  12,  1765,  and  died  in  Amherst  County,  Va., 
August  6,  1856.  He  had  six  elder  brothers,  all  of  whom 
were  soldiers  of  the  Revolution.  His  father,  William 
Thornton,  Sr.,  was  born  December  20,  1717,  and  his 
mother,  Jane  Clack,  was  born  January  9,  1721.  His 
grandfather,  Francis  Thornton,  was  born  June  7,  1692, 
and  died  February  6,  1737.  His  great-grandfather,  Wil- 
liam Thornton,  Jr.,  was  born  March  27,  1649,  and  died 
February  15,  1727.  "  It  is  said  that  three  brothers  — 
Thorntons  —  came  to  Virginia  in  the  early  settlement  of  the 
colony,  and  became  the  ancestors  of  the  Thorntons  in  Va." 
Jane  Clack  is  said  to  have  been  the  daughter  of  Sterling 
Clack,  and  granddaughter  of  the  Rev.  James  Clack,  young- 
est son  of  William  and  Mary  Clack,  of  the  parish  of  Mardm, 
near  Devises,  in  Wiltshire,  England,  who  "  came  out  of 
England  in  August,  1677 ;  arrived  in  Virginia  upon  New 
Year's  Day  following;  came  into  the  Parish  of  Ware, 
Gloucester  County,  Va.,  on  Easter,  Avhere  he  continued 
minister  near  forty-five  years  till  he  died,  Dec.  20th,  1723." 
38.  Mary  *  McCulloch  and  Peter  Presley  Thornton  were 
the  parents  of  ten  children  :  — 

i.  Elizabeth  H.^  Thornton,  b.  March  7,  1793 ;  d. 

November  7,  1849  ;  unmarried, 
ii.  William  S.'^  Thornton,  b.  November  9,  1794 ;  d. 

in  February,  1865;  unmarried, 
iii.  Roderick  M.^  Thornton,  b.  August  28,  1796,  d. 

June  24,  1842 ;  unmarried. 
155.      iv.  Jane  Clack  ^  Thornton. 

V.  Isabella  M.^  Thornton,  b.  November  9,  1800  ;  d. 

in  February,  1849  ;  unmarried, 
vi.  Mary  Jones  ^  Thornton,  b.  October  27,  1802  ;  d. 

September  11,  1823  ;  unmarried. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  283 

vii.  Peter  Presley  ^  Thornton,  b.  February  25,  1806  ; 
d.  July  3,  1836;  unmarried. 

156.  viii.  James  Francis  ^  Thornton. 

157.  ix.  Robert  H.^  Thornton. 

158.  X.  Belinda  A.^  Thornton. 

155.  Jane  Clack  ^  Thornton,  born  August  24, 1798;  died 
May  15,  1863 ;  married,  August  24,  1820,  Mr.  William  C. 
Hannah,  of  Charlotte  County,  Va.  (a  private  in  Capt.  George 
Hannah's  troop  of  cavalry,  1814),  and  had  four  children, 
viz. :  — 

i.  Presley  T."  Hannah,  b.  June  1,  1821 ;  d.  January 
19,  1850,  in  Lynchburg ;  never  married. 

159.  ii.  Ann  E.^  Hannah. 

iii.  William    S.^    Hannah,    b.    November    28,    1828; 
fought  in  the  C.  S.  A.  at  Bull  Run  and  Manas- 
sas as  lieutenant  of  a  company  from  Lynch- 
burg ;  after,  was  elected  captain  of  a  company 
from  Amherst ;  served  under  Jackson  ;  died  in 
the  hospital  at  Richmond  from  the  effect  of  a 
wound  received  at  Chancellorsville.     "  He  was 
a  brave  soldier." 
iv.  Robert  A.*^  Hannah,  b.  April  26,  1834;  d.  Septem- 
ber 26,  1836. 
159.  Ann  E.'^  Hannah,  born  December  18, 1825  ;  died  in 
November,    1864 ;  married,   in    1845,   Robert  Nicolson,   a 
native  of  Lerwick,  Shetland  Isles,   Scotland ;   a  soldier  in 

the  C.  S.  A.     Had  issue  : 

i.  William^  Nicolson,  soldier  C.   S.  A.;  killed  at  Gettys- 
burg, 
ii.  Jeanie  ^  Nicolson,  m.  Francis  J.  Rockenback,  a  native  of 
Strasburg,  Germany  (of  German  and  French  parent- 
age) ;  a  lieutenant  in  C.  S.  A.     Issue  two  :  — 

i.  Samuel  D.^  Rockenback,  b.  in  Lynchburg,  Va., 
January  7,  1869;  graduated  V.  M.  L,  1889; 
appointed  second  lieutenant  U.  S.  A.  from 
civil  life,  1891;  lieutenant  lOtli  Cavalry,  U. 


284  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

S.  A. ;  elected  commandant  of  Cadets  at  V. 
M.  I.,  1894. 
ii.  Anne^  Rockenback. 
iii.  Mary^  Nicolson,  m.  Archibald  H.  Mitcham,  of  Lynch- 
burg, Va.,  and  has :  i.  John  R.^ ;  ii.  Elizabeth  ^ ;  iii. 
Clarence  H.^ ;  and  iv.  Willie  Orin  ^  Mitcham. 
iv.  Robena  McC.^  Nicolson,  m.   George  Griffin  Leckie,  of 
Lynchburg,  Va.,  and  has  :  i.  Harry  G.^  and  ii.  Robena 
A.^  Leckie. 
V.  William  S.^  Nicolson,  b.  after  his  elder  brother  William 
was  killed ;   m.  Eva  L.  Dornin,  of  Lynchburg,  and 
has  :  i.  Robert  Edwin  ^  Nicolson. 

156.  James  Francis  ^  Thornton  (born  October  24,  1807; 
died  in  December,  1878)  married,  1840,  Lucy  F.,  daughter 
of  Dabney  Phillips,  Esq.,  of  Amherst.  They  had  nine 
children,  all  living  November  1,  1881  :  — 

i.  Nannie  J.*^  Thornton,  m.   1860,  Joseph  Staples,  Esq., 

of  Amherst, 
ii.  Peter  P.'^  Thornton,  m.,  1868,  Emily  Watts, 
iii.  George  D.*^  Thornton,  m.,  1867,  Sallie  Gatewood. 
iv.  Mary  ^  Thornton,  m.,  1864,  Dr.  Henry  Berry,  of  Am- 
herst. 
V.  William  ^   Thornton,  m.,   1874,   a    daughter  of    Rev. 

Thomas  B.  Gatewood. 
vi.  Jeanie^  Thornton,  m.  Nathaniel  Sandidge,  Esq.     He 

d.  1879. 
vii.  Elizabeth*'  Thornton,  m.  Charles  Williams,  Esq. 
viii.  Ella  '^  Thornton,  m.,  1883,  William  Dow. 
ix.  Ida  ^  Thornton,  m.,  in   1886,  Marshall  Williams,    of 
Amherst. 

157.  Robert  H.^  Thornton,  born  October  16,  1809;  mar- 
ried three  times;  married,  January  27,  1853,  Maria  L. 
Wingfield  (the  mother  of  his  children),  daughter  of  Rev. 
Charles  Wingfield,  of  the  Albemarle  Baptist  Association. 
He  was  a  native  of  Hanover  County.     He  was  not  only  an 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     285 

able  preacher,  but  a  cultivated  teacher.  He  married  a 
daughter  of  Capt.  Lewis  Nicholas,  and  niece  of  Gov.  Nicho- 
las. He  died  January  24,  1864.  Eobert  H.  Thornton  was 
living  in  1881 ;  the  date  of  his  death  is  not  known  to  me. 
He  left  issue  :  — 

i.  Charles  Presley  ^  Thornton,  b.  March  15,  1854. 

ii.  Mary  Gary  *^  Thornton,  b.  September  3,  1855. 
iii.  Gamilla  J.^  Thornton,  b.  May  10,  1857. 
iv.  Eobert  Horsley  ^  Thornton,  b.  June  3,  1859. 

158.  Belinda  Ann  ^  Thornton,  born  November  23,  1811; 

died  July  20,  1835 ;  married,  March  24,  1828,  Francis  E. 

Quarles,  Esq.,  of  King  and  Queen  Gounty,  Va.,  and  left 

three  children :  — 

i.  Mary  T.^  Quarles,  b.  March  28,  1829  ;  d.  May  4,  1849  ; 

never  married, 
ii.  Lucy   D.^   Quarles,    b.    February    11,    1831 ;    married 

Thomas  A.  Staples,  Esq.,  of  Richmond,  who  died  in 

1872,  leaving  his  widow  childless. 
iii.  Elizabeth  Jane  ^  Quarles,  b.  April  22,  1833 ;   married 

James  J.  Dornin,  Esq.,  of  Richmond  and  Manchester. 


39.  Elizabeth*  McCulloch,  born  March  11,  1773,  died 
March  20,  1833 ;  married,  June  6,  1802,  Samuel  Boyle 
Davies  (born  December  22,  1774,  died  February  2,  1829), 
of  Bedford  County  [son  of  Henry  Landon  Davies  and  his 
wife,  Ann  Clayton  (married  January  15,  1767).  Henry  L. 
Davies  was  a  son  of  Nicholas  and  Catherine  Whiting  Da- 
vies. His  wife,  Ann  Clayton,  was  a  daughter  of  John  Clay- 
ton the  botanist  (and  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Whiting),  son  of 
John  Clayton,  for  many  years  attorney-general  of  Virginia. 
See  under  24].     Issue  :  — 

160.  i.  Anne  C.  E.^  Davies. 

.  ii.  Roderick  McC'  Davies,  b.  October  20,  1804 ;  d. 
s.  p. 

161.  iii.  William  Brown  ^  Davies. 

162.  iv.  EHzabeth  ^  Davies. 


286  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR   KIN 

160.  Anne  C.  E."  Davies  (born  June  12,  1803 ;  died  Oc- 
tober 26,  1848)  married,  October  9,  1822,  her  first  cousin, 
Gen.  Odin  G.  Clay.  "  He  was  born  about  1800,  near  the 
present  Forest  depot,  Bedford  County,  Va ;  "  moved  to 
CampbeU.  "  From  1827,  when  he  entered  the  Virginia 
House  of  Delegates,  from  Campbell  County,  his  busy,  use- 
ful, and  honored  life  was  constantly  in  the  public  eye  ; " 
member  of  the  House  of  Delegates  for  about  twenty  years ; 
active  in  securing  the  charter  for  the  old  Virginia  and  Ten- 
nessee Raih'oad,  and  in  the  construction  of  this  important 
railway  ;  was  for  the  first  six  years  its  president ;  appointed 
a  member  of  the  board  of  public  works  in  1854,  he  continued 
in  this  position  several  years.  In  his  old  age  he  was  in  the 
habit  of  spending  the  winter  months  in  Lynchburg,  and  he 
died  at  the  Norvell  House  in  that  city  in  his  eighty-second 
year.  "  No  man  ever  more  thoroughly  deserved  or  more 
universally  received  the  implicit  confidence  of  the  com- 
munity." He  was  a  son  of  Rev.  Charles  Clay,  ordained 
by  the  bishop  of  London  in  1769 ;  minister  of  St.  Anne's 
Parish,  x^lbemarle,  October  22,  1769,  to  1784 ;  an  earnest 
patriot,  he  declared  in  his  sermons  that  the  "  cause  of  lib- 
erty was  the  cause  of  God."  He  was  interested  in  the 
Albemarle  Iron  Works  and  one  of  his  churches  was  "  The 
Forge ;  "  a  personal  friend  of  Thomas  Jefferson  ;  "  nearly 
related  —  probably  a  first  cousin  —  to  Henry  Clay;"  went 
to  Chesterfield  (which  I  think  was  his  native  county)  1784— 
1785,  and  to  Bedford  in  1785,  where  he  owned  a  farm 
(near  Mr.  Jefi:erson's),  and  continued  to  live  there  until  his 
death  in  1824.  He  married  Editha  Davies  (born  April  17, 
1777),  daughter  of  Henry  Landon  and  Ann  Clayton  Davies. 

160.  Mrs.  Anne  C.  E.^  Clay  left  issue,  "  six  sons  and  one 
daughter.  Four  of  her  sons  were  in  the  2d  Virginia  Cav- 
alry, Army  of  Northern  Virginia,  C.  S.  A." 

161.  William  Brown  ^  Davies  (born  April  8,  1806;  a 
physician  of  Bedford  County,  Va. ;  died  September  1, 
1846)  married,  April  14,  1829,  his  cousin,  Editha  Davies 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     287 

(born  March  4,  1807;  died  in  1875),  daughter  of  Nicholas 
Clayton  Davies  (son  of  Henry  Landon  Davies)  and  his  wife, 
Elizabeth  Crawford,  daughter  of  David  (1734-1802)  and 
EHzabeth  Henderson  Crawford,  and  had  issue :  — 
i.  Samuel  Nicholas '  Davies,  b.  1831 ;  d.  1831. 
ii.  William  Boyle  '^  Davies,  b.  April  22,  1832  ;  graduated 
A.  B.,  Washington  College,  1851-1852  ;  physician 
assistant   surgeon,  2d  Virginia  Cavalry,  C.   S.  A. 
killed  in  Stafford  County,  Va.,  in  February,  1863 
married,  February  25,  1857,  Sarah  J.  Elhs,  of  Am- 
herst, and  had  :  i.  Sarah  E/ ;  ii.  William  Boyle,^  and 
iii.  Eva  Allen  ^  Davies. 
iii.  Arthur  Landon  '^  Davies,  d.  infant. 
iv.  John  Whiting  '^  Davies,  b.  September  6, 1837  ;  private, 
19th  Virginia  Regiment,  C.  S.  A. ;  killed  June  16, 
1864,  near  Chester  Station  ;  unmarried. 
V.  Henrian  EHzabeth  ^  Davies,  b.   October  18,  1839 ;  d. 
February  23,  1876  ;  m.  at  Mountain  View,  Bedford 
County,  April  7,  1864,  Capt.  Edwin  N.  Wise,  a  sol- 
dier in  the  C.  S.  A. ;  son  of  George  P.  Wise,  of 
Alexandria,  Va.,  and  his  wife,  Sinah  Ann  Newton, 
daughter   of   William   Newton   and  sister   to   Com. 
John  S.  Newton,  U.  S.  N.,  Hon.  Thomas  Willoughby 
Newton,  M.  C.  from  Arkansas,  etc.     Issue :  i.  Jean- 
nie  Stuart  ^ ;    ii.  Editha  Newton  ^ ;    and  iii.  Edwin 
Wise. 
vi.  Roderick  Henry  ^  Davies,  b.  March  13,  1841 ;  private, 
2d  Virginia  Cavalry,  C.  S.  A. ;  was  twice  wounded ; 
m.,  May  10,  1864,  Caroline  S.  Jones,  of  Alabama. 
She  died  in  Lynchburg  some  years  ago,  and  he  re- 
moved to  Kentucky ;  has  one  son  grown  :  i.  Alexan- 
der ^  Davies. 
vii.  Martha  Patricia^  Davies,  d.  infant,  1845. 
viii.  Beverly^  Davies,  d.  infant,  1846. 

162.  Elizabeth  McCuUoch^  Davies,  born  April  4,  1808; 
died  April  10,  1837 ;  married,  October  4,  1835,  Lodovick 


288  THE   CABELLS   AND  THEIR   KIN 

A.  Moorman  (born  April  1,  1809;  died  July  25,  1870),  son 
of  John  Hope  Moorman  (born  November  13,  1783;  died 
Aiio-ust  29,  1862),  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Johnson  (born 
January  22, 1790;  died  May  20, 1861).  They  were  married 
July  12,  1805,  in  the  old  Quaker  meeting-house  near 
Lynchburg.  John  Hope  Moorman  and  Elizabeth  Johnson 
both  descended  from  Charles  Moorman  and  his  son  Thomas, 
the  overseers  of  Camp  Creek  Meeting,  Louisa,  in  1744. 

162.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  McC.  Moorman  left  an  only  child : 
i.  Elizabeth  Ann  McCulloch'^  Moorman,  born  April  1, 
1837,  living  1894 ;  married  (first),  January  3,  1861,  James 

B.  Anthony  (born  March  19,  1838,  died  June  16,  1870). 
Issue :  — 

i.  Abner  James  Brown  Anthony,  b.  March  27,  1862. 

162.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  A.  McC^  Anthony  married  (second), 
September  8,  1879,  Morton  Pannill,  of  Campbell  County, 
Va.  He  died  August  26,  1880,  s.  p.  Both  of  her  hus- 
bands served  in  the  C.  S.  A. 


40.  Frances*  McCulloch,  born  July  15,  1781;  married, 
in  1799,  Benjamin  Shackelford,  of  King  and  Queen  County, 
Va. ;  resided  in  that  county  until  about  1807,  when  they 
removed  to  Amherst  County,  Va.,  which  county  Mr.  Shack- 
elford represented  for  one  or  more  sessions  in  the  Virginia 
House  of  Delegates.  The  family  moved  to  Kentucky  about 
1817,  and  settled  in  Richmond,  Madison  County,  where 
Mr.  Shackelford  died  March  9,  1819,  aged  45,  and  was 
buried  in  the  old  Irvine  burying-ground.  He  was  a  son  of 
Col.  Lyne  Shackelford  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Philip  Taliaferro,  of  King  and  Queen  County,  Va.  She 
descended  from  the  old  Virginia  families.  Carter,  Grymes, 
Smith,  Baytop,  etc. 

40.  Mrs.  Frances*  McC.  Shackelford  survived  her  hus- 
band many  years;  removed  with  her  daughter  to  Hanni- 
bal, Mo.,  where  she  died  and  was  buried.     Her  children 
were :  — 
163.  i.  Elizabeth  M.^  Shackelford. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  289 

164.  ii.  Frances  A.  Shackelford. 

iii.  Roderick  S.  Shackelford,  b.  June  13,  1804;  re- 
moved to  Macon  County,  Mo. ;  and  once  rep- 
resented the  county  in  the  Missouri  legislature. 

iv.  Benjamin  T.  Shackelford,  b.  April  12,  1807 ;  a 
successful  merchant  of  Louisville,  Ky. ;  m. 
Nannie,  daughter  of  Judge  Robert  Trimble, 
a  native  of  Berkeley  County,  Va.,  for  whom 
Trimble  County,  Ky.,  was  named;  d.  about 
1837,  s.  p. 
V.  Rosa  T.  Shackelford,  d.  in  childhood. 

vi.  Behnda  M.  Shackelford,  b.  November  18, 1812 ; 
m.,  January  24,  1839,  Dr.  Jerman,  of  Madison 
County,  Ky. ;  moved  first  to  Hannibal,  Mo., 
then  to  St.  Louis,  where  Dr.  Jerman  became 
a  physician  of  some  note.  He  d.  July  25, 
1874 ;  she  d.  August  14,  1879,  s.  p. 
vii.  Martha  J.  Shackelford,  b.  May  26,  1814;  m. 
about  1830,  Alfred  Warner,  a  native  of  Con- 
necticut and  a  banker  of  Lexington,  Ky.  She 
survived  her  marriage  only  a  few  years,  and 
d.  s.  p. 
viii.  George  H.  Shackelford,  b.  October  17,  1817 ; 
a  merchant  of  Hannibal,  Mo. ;  m.  Miss  Hill, 
of  St.  Louis,  and  d.  about  1850,  leaving :  i. 
Emma,^  m.  John  Hewitt,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo. ; 
ii.  David  ;  and  iii.  "  Minnie  "  Shackelford. 

165.  ix.  Richard  C.  Shackelford. 

163.  Ehzabeth  M.^  Shackelford,  born  February  14, 1800 ; 
married,  January  26,  1819,  Robert  Clark,  of  Winchester, 
Clark  County,  Ky.  He  was  born  July  10,  1793 ;  served 
in  the  War  of  1812,  in  all  of  the  battles  under  Gen.  Har- 
rison ;  was  an  attorney  at  law,  but  owing  to  a  duel  which  he 
fought,  retired  from  the  bar ;  was  for  many  years  clerk  of 
Estill  County  courts ;  noted  for  great  personal  and  moral 
courage.     He  died  in  1853,  s.  p. 


290  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

164.  Frances  A.^  Shackelford  (born  April  13,  1802,  died 
November  26,  1866)  married  in  1826,  in  Richmond,  Ky., 
Patterson  Clark,  of  Clark  County,  Ky.,  brother  to  Robert 
Clark,  who  married  her  sister.  Although  but  a  youth,  he 
enhsted  in  the  War  of  1812 ;  was  taken  prisoner  at  Dud- 
ley's defeat;  remained  seven  years  in  captivity  with  the 
Indians,  then  escaping  through  Ohio,  he  reached  home  in 
Kentucky.  He  was  a  son  of  Robert  Clark,  a  native  of 
Virginia,  who  established  the  first  iron  works  in  eastern 
Kentucky,  on  "  Red  River."  According  to  some  accounts, 
Clark  County,  Ky.,  was  named  for  him,  according  to  others, 
it  was  named  for  Gen.  George  Rogers  Clark. 

He  was  brother  to  Gov.  James  Clark,  of  Kentucky,  to 
Bennett  Clark  (the  father  of  Hon.  John  B.  Clark,  of  Mis- 
souri), and  to  Christopher  Clark  (who  married  a  daughter  of 
John  Hook,  remained  in  Virginia,  and  represented  the  Bed- 
ford District  in  Congress  in  1804-1806).  These  brothers 
(there  were  other  brothers  and  sisters  whose  descendants  are 
scattered  over  the  West)  were  the  sons  of  Robert  Clark,  b. 
(in  then  Louisa  now  Albemarle  County)  "  13th  day,  6th 
month,  1738 "  (according  to  the  register  of  Camp  Creek 
Monthly  Meeting),  i.  e.,  August  13,  1738  (0.  S.).  He  mar- 
ried Susan  Henderson,  daughter  of  John  Henderson,  whose 
will,  dated  June  8,  1782,  recorded  October  12,  1786,  men- 
tions sons  :  Bennett,  John,  and  William  ;  daughters  :  Fran- 
ces Henderson,  Elizabeth  Crawford,  Susannah  Clark,  Mary 
Bullock,  and  Hannah  Bullock.  Robert  Clark  sold  out  his 
lands  in  Albemarle  to  John  Grills  and  others  in  1765,  and 
removed  to  the  present  county  of  Campbell,  then  Bedford, 
and  some  time  after  1779  he  emigrated  to  Kentucky,  where 
he  died.  He  was  a  son  of  Micajah  Clark  (by  his  wife, 
Judith,  daughter  of  Robert  Adams),  the  son  of  Christopher 
and  Penelope  Clark.     (See  under  52.) 

164.  Mrs.  Frances  A.^  Clark  left  two  surviving  chil- 
dren :  — 

i.  Robert  B.^  Clark,  b.  in  Irvine,  Estill  County,  Ky.,  April 
27,    1832;    educated    Kentucky    Military   Institute, 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     291 

Frankfort,  Ky. ;  prospector  and  miner  in  New  Mex- 
ico in  1881. 
ii.  Frances®  Clark,  b.  July  4,  1838;  m.,  December  11, 
1860,  in  St.  Louis,  Robert  Cook,  a  retired  merchant ; 
removed  to  Philadelphia,  where  he  d.  in  1874.  He 
was  b.  in  Delaware ;  son  of  a  physician  of  English 
descent.  He  left  three  daughters :  i.  Elizabeth  C.^ ; 
ii.  Frances  C.^ ;  and  iii.  "  Addie  "  Cook. 

165.  Richard  C.^  Shackelford  (born  June  17, 1819;  living 
1894)  married,  October  14,  1846,  Anna   Scott,  of  Paris, 
Ky.,  who  was  a  granddaughter  of  Judge  Robert  Trimble. 
He  is  a  merchant  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.     Issue,  two  daughters : 
i.  Frances  ^  Shackelford,  b.  May  9,  1852 ;  m.,  April  22, 
1875,  Charles  W.  Knapp,  who  has  always  been  con- 
nected with  the  "  St.  Louis  Republic,"  formerly  "  Mis- 
souri Republican,"  and  is  now  the  managing  editor  of 
that  paper.     He  is  a  native  of  Missouri ;  his  father,  a 
native  of  New  York.    He  has  one  child  :  i.  Genevieve  ^ 
Knapp,  b.  March  18,  1876. 
ii.  Genevieve  ^  Shackelford,  b.  January  10,  1857 ;  m.,  Jan- 
uary 20,  1882,  Henry  H.  Keller,  formerly  of  Lexing- 
ton, Ky.  (and  a  soldier  in  the  C.  S.  A.),  now  of  St. 
Louis,  Mo.     Issue  three  :  ^  — 
i.  Henry  Shackelford'  Keller,  b.  December  14,  1882. 
ii.  Genevieve '  Keller,  b.  December  21,  1884. 
iii.  David  Hayes'  Keller,  b.  October  25,  1888. 


41.  Isabella  *  McCulloch,  born  January  22,  1784 ;  died 
June  5,  1860 ;  married  in  September,  1815,  by  Rev.  Charles 
Crawford,  to  Mr.  Edward  Waugh,  son  of  Thomas  Waugli, 
Esq.,  of  Amherst.  Mr.  Waugh  died  January  14,  1820, 
leaving  an  only  child  :  — 

i.  Pembroke  Edward  '  Waugh,  b.  July  17,  1816  ;  d.  in 
November,  1885.  He  was  at  Washington  College, 
Lexington,  Va.,  1835-1836 ;  lived  near  Big  Island,  in 
Bedford  County ;  was  married  at  "  Green  Bottom," 


292  THE   CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

Cabell  County,  W.  Va.,  January  4, 1848,  by  Rev.  Heze- 
kiali  Chilton,  to  Miss  Eustatia  Jenkins.  Her  mother  was 
Janetta  Grigsby  McNutt,  daughter  of  Rachel  Grigsby 
and  Alexander  McNutt,  of  Rockbridge  County,  Va. 
Mrs.  Eustatia  Waugh  died  June  17,  1864.  Pembroke 
E.  Waugh  married  (2d)  October  5,  1870,  Sarah,  daugh- 
ter of  Launcelott  Minor,  Esq.,  of  Amherst,  but  had  no 
issue  by  her.     By  his  first  wife  he  had  :  — 

i.  Eustatia  Elizabeth  ^  Waugh,  d.  young. 

ii.  Isabella   Janetta    Waugh,   m.    October   24,    1878, 
James,  son  of  Col.  Thomas  Woods,  of  Amherst 
County,  Va. 
iii.  William  McCuUoch  Waugh. 
iv.  Albert  Gallatin  Waugh. 

V.  Edward  Ashby  Waugh. 


42.  Nancy  EUis*  McCulloch,  born  November  27,  1788; 
was  christened  by  Rev.  Charles  Crawford,  and  "  named  for 
her  sponsors"  (Mrs.  Ellis  and  her  daughter,  afterwards  Mrs. 
Hunter).  She  was  married  at  "  Verdant  Vale,"  by  Rev. 
Charles  Crawford,  on  February  29,  1816,  to  Mr.  Joseph 
Glasgow,  of  Rockbridge  County,  Va.  "  She  was  accom- 
panied on  her  bridal  trip  by  her  beautiful  nieces,  Ehzabeth 
Thornton  and  Elizabeth  Shackelford  (afterwards  Mrs.  Clark, 
of  Kentucky),  making  a  trio  of  unusual  beauty,  long  to  be 
remembered." 

Joseph  Glasgow  was  born  at  "  Green  Forest,"  his  father's 
home  on  North  River,  about  six  miles  east  of  Lexington,  in 
Rockbridge  County,  Va.,  October  14  1783;  he  served  in 
the  "  Rockbridge  Light  Horse  Cavalry,"  under  Col.  James 
McDowell,  in  the  War  of  1812 ;  after  marriage,  settled 
on  his  farm  on  James  River,  and  built  a  luxurious  home, 
named  "  Union  Rid2:e "  in  honor  of  his  wife's  mother's 
ancestral  home.  He  was  the  son  of  Arthur  Glasgow  (who 
emigrated  to  America  with  his  father's  family,  coming  prob- 
ably from  Scotland,  first  to  Pennsylvania  and  thence  to 
Virginia)  and  his  wife,  Rebecca  (widow  of  John  McCorkle, 


MRS.    NANCY   ELLIS   McCULLOCH   GLASGOW 


JOSEPH  GLASGOW,   ESQ. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  293 

■who  filled  a  soldier's  grave  at  the  battle  of  the  Cowpens), 
daughter  of  John  McNutt  and  his  wife,  Catharine  Ander- 
son, emigrants  probably  from  Scotland. 

Mrs.  Nancy  Ellis  Glasgow  had  been  reared  in  the  Epis- 
pal  Church,  but  after  moving  to  the  valley  she  joined  the 
Presbyterian,  the  church  of  her  husband.  She  died  May 
10,  1868.  Her  funeral  services  were  conducted  by  the 
Rev.  David  Shanks.  She  had  two  children  :  — 
i.  Rebecca  J.^  Glasgow,  b.  September  13, 1817;  d.  July  25, 

1837;  "  an  accomplished,  lovely  woman." 
ii.  Elizabeth  J.  A.^  Glasgow,  b.  November   1,  1819;  m., 

July  16,  1850,  Hobson  Johns,  Esq.     He  d.  without 

issue.     She  is  living,  1895. 


43.  William  H.'^  McCuUoch,  born  December  10,  1791. 
"He  was  a  captain  in  the  War  of  1812,  and  although 
very  young,  served  faithfully.  He  married  at  Col.  William 
Nelson's,  in  Westmoreland  County,  Va.,  Mary  Douglass, 
daughter  of  James  Douglass,  of  Alexandria,  Va.,  and  Sal- 
lie  Evans,  of  Delaware.  James  Douglass  was  a  merchant 
and  mill  owner.  His  property  was  twice  burned  by  the 
British  during  the  War  of  1812.  His  father  came  from 
Scotland,  and  claimed  to  be  of  the  historic  house  of  the 
Douglas." 

Mrs.  Mary  Douglass  McCulloch  died  eighteen   months 
after  marriage,  leaving  an  only  child  :  — 
166.  i.  Roderick  Doug-las^  McCulloch. 

43.  William  H.*  McCulloch  was  a  vestryman  of  the  Epis- 
copal Church  for  Lexington  Parish,  Amherst  County,  in 
1825-1829,  probably  before  and  after.  His  second  wife 
was  Mary  Champe  Carter,  daughter  of  Edward  Carter,  Jr., 
of  Blenheim,  by  his  second  wife,  Lucy  Wood.  Edward 
Carter,  Jr.,  was  the  son  of  Edward  Carter,  Sr.,  of  Blenheim 
(by  his  wife,  Sarah  Champe)  ;  the  son  of  John  Carter,  the 
secretary  (by  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Hill,  of  Shirley) ;  the  son 
of  Robert  Carter,  called  "King  Carter  of  Corotoman"  (by 
his  wife,  Judith  Armistead) ;  the  son  of  John  Carter,  the 


294  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

emigrant  from  England,  by  his  wife,  Sarah,  the  daughter  of 
Gabriel  Ludlow,  of  England.  (See  the  "  Ancestry  of  Ben- 
jamin Harrison,"  by  Charles  P.  Keith.) 

Lucy  Wood,  who  married  Edward  Carter,  Jr.,  was  the 
daughter  of  Col.  Valentine  Wood  (son  of  Henry  Wood,  the 
first  clerk),  of  Woodville,  Goochland  County,  Va.,  and  his 
wife,  Lucy  Henry  (sister  to  Patrick  Henry,  the  orator), 
daughter  of  Col.  John  Henry,  who  emigrated  to  Virginia 
from  Scotland.  Col.  Henry's  wife  was  a  Winston,  and  her 
ancestor  is  said  to  have  come  from  Wales.    (See  under  54.) 

Sarah  Champe  was  a  daughter  of  Col.  John  Champe,  of 
Lamb's  Creek,  King  George.  I  do  not  know  who  his  emi- 
grant ancestor  was.  The  other  emigrant  ancestors  of  Mary 
Champe  Carter — Hill,  Armistead,  Wood,  etc.  —  were 
from  England.  They  are  well-known  old  Virginia  families. 
William  H.  McCulloch  inherited  his  father's  seat,  "  Verdant 
Vale."  In  1834,  he  sold  the  place  to  Mrs.  Isabella  Waugh, 
and  moved  to  Callaway  County,  Mo.  About  1840,  he 
removed  to  the  vicinity  of  Osceola,  St.  Clair  County,  Mo., 
where  he  purchased  "  Westwood,"  a  fine  estate.  "  He 
filled  various  political  positions,  although  he  was  an  ardent 
Whig  in  a  strong  Democratic  county."  He  died  March  5, 
1855.  His  widow,  Mary  C.  McCulloch,  died  near  Spring- 
field, Mo.,  October  10,  1879.  Issue  nine  :  — 
ii.  Edward  ^  McCulloch,  d.  infant, 
iii.  Robert  McCulloch,  d.  unmarried, 
iv.  William  McCulloch,  d.  unmarried. 

167.  V.  Lucy  C.  McCulloch. 

vi.  Richard  Ellis  McCulloch,  killed  in  battle  of  Prai- 
rie Grove,  Ark.,  1862,  in  C.  S.  A. ;  unmarried. 

vii.  EHzabeth  McCulloch,  d.  December  24,  1864, 
unmarried. 

viii.  Charles  McCulloch,  b.  1839;  a  planter  of  Texas, 
near  Waco ;  m.  Elizabeth  Gee,  and  has  two 
children :  i.  Alice  Champe,^  b.  1886 ;  and  ii. 
Mary  McCulloch,  b.  1891. 

168.  ix.  Champe  Carter  McCulloch. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     295 

X.  George  Valentine  McCulloeh,  b.  1844 ;  a  planter 
of  Texas,  near  Waco ;  m.  Mary  Emlet,  and 
has  three  children :  i.  Charles  Carter,^  b.  1877 ; 
ii.  Lotta  Belle,  b.  1879  ;  and  iii.  William  Lanier 
McCulloeh,  b.  1887. 

166.  Roderick  Douglas^  McCulloeh,  born  at  "Verdant 
Vale ;  "  went  to  Missouri  with  his  father  in  the  fall  of 
1834 ;  went  into  business  with  Crow  &  Co.  in  Osceola, 
then  a  frontier  settlement,  in  October,  1836 ;  married,  Feb- 
ruary 25,  1840,  EHzabeth  McC.  Nash,  daughter  of  Dr. 
Gabriel  Penn  Nash,  of  Osceola,  Mo.,  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth 
Madison  McClanahan.  Dr.  Nash  was  a  son  of  Abner 
Nash,  by  his  wife,  Matilda  Penn,  a  daughter  of  Col.  Ga- 
briel Penn,  of  Amherst  County,  Va.,  a  first  cousin  to 
John  Penn,  the  signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence. 
Gabriel  Penn  was  born  July  17,  1741 ;  a  sergeant  in  the 
1st  Virginia  Regiment,  under  Col.  William  Byrd,  in  1764 ; 
member  Revolutionary  Convention,  etc. ;  died  in  1798.  He 
married,  in  September,  1761,  Sarah  Callaway,  a  daughter 
of  Col.  Richard  Callaway,  of  Bedford  County,  Va.  Col. 
Callaway  was  born  about  1719  ;  married  (first)  about  1740  ; 
patented  lands  in  Brunswick  and  Lunenburg  counties,  Va., 
in  1747-1754 ;  sergeant,  heutenant,  and  major  in  French 
and  Indian  War,  1755-1763 ;  a  trustee  of  the  new  town 
of  New  London  (then  in  Bedford,  now  Campbell  County), 
Va.,  in  1761;  patented  lands  in  Bedford,  1762-1770; 
went  several  times  to  Kentucky ;  possibly  moved  to  North 
Carolina  between  1771  and  1774 ;  went  to  Kentucky  to 
locate  early  in  1775 ;  was  a  member  of  the  Transylvania 
Convention  held  at  Boonesborough  in  May,  1775  ;  his  fam- 
ily reached  Boonesborough  about  September  26,  1775,  in 
which  year  he  raised  the  first  corn  in  Madison  County,  Ky. 
His  daughters,  Elizabeth  and  Frances  Callaway,  with  Jemima 
Boone,  were  captured  by  the  Indians  July  14,  1776,  and 
retaken  by  Boone  the  next  day.  This  incident  is  made  use 
of  by  Cooper  in  "  The  Last  of  the  Mohicans."     On  August 


296  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

7  following,  Elizabeth  Callaway  married  Samuel  Hender- 
son, one  of  her  rescuers  (a  brother  of  Judge  Richard  Hen- 
derson) ;  and  their  daughter,  Fanny  Henderson,  born  May 
29,  1777,  was  the  first  white  child  born  in  Kentucky  of 
parents  married  in  Kentucky.  Col.  Callaway  and  Col. 
John  Todd  were  elected  burgesses  to  the  General  Assembly 
of  Virginia  from  Kentucky  County,  on  April  18-19,  1777, 
at  the  first  election  held  in  Kentucky.  He  set  off  for  Rich- 
mond on  May  23.  He  aided  in  the  defense  of  Boones- 
borough  in  the  big  attack  in  September,  1778.  Evan 
Shelby  and  himself  were  appointed  commissioners  for  mark- 
ing and  opening  a  road  over  the  Cumberland  Mountain  to 
Kentucky,  by  act  of  Virginia  Legislature,  October,  1779  ; 
and  the  same  legislature  placed  the  first  ferry  (at  Boones- 
borough)  in  Kentucky  under  his  charge.  He  was  killed  by 
Indians,  near  Boonesborough,  March  8,  1780.  Callaway 
County,  Ky.,  was  named  for  him. 

Gabriel  Penn  was  a  son  of  Robert  Penn,  "  a  relative  of 
Wm.  Penn  the  Quaker,"  by  his  wife,  Mary  Taylor,  daughter 
of  John  Taylor  (by  his  wife,  Catherine,  daughter  of  Philip 
and  Isabella  (Hart)  Pendleton),  son  of  James  Taylor,  who 
emigrated  from  Carlisle,  England,  to  Virginia. 

Elizabeth  Madison  McClanahan  was  the  oldest  dauofhter 
of  Agatha  Lewis  and  Col.  Elijah  McClanahan,  of  Botetourt 
County,  Va.  Agatha  Lewis  was  the  daughter  of  Col. 
Andrew  Lewis,  of  Bent  Mountain,  who  was  a  son  of  Gen. 
Andrew  Lewis,  the  hero  of  Point  Pleasant,  whose  statue 
is  among  the  group  around  the  equestrian  statue  of  Gen. 
Washington,  in  the  capitol  grounds  at  Richmond.  He  was 
the  son  of  John  Lewis,  who  is  said  to  have  been  "  the  first 
European  settler  of  Augusta  County,  Va."  He  emigrated 
from  Ireland.  On  the  paternal  side  he  is  said  to  have  been 
of  Huguenot  origin.  On  the  maternal  side  he  was  Scotch. 
The  mother  of  Agatha  Lewis  was  a  Miss  Madison,  of  Eng- 
lish descent. 

Mrs.  EHzabeth  McClanahan  McCuUoch  died  April  17, 
1848.  Roderick  Douglas  McCuUoch  died  March  8,  1853, 
at  Gonzales,  Texas,  leaving  three  children  :  — 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     297 

i.  Robert  "^  McCuUoch,  b.  in  Osceola,  Mo.,  September  15, 
1841 ;  educated  at  V.  M.  I. ;  entered  C.  S.  A.  as 
lieutenant  "  Danville  Grays ;  "  promoted  captain  ; 
adjutant,  ISth  Virginia ;  wounded  in  first  and  second 
battles  of  Manassas,  at  Gaines'  Mill,  and  at  Gettys- 
burg, where  he  was  taken  prisoner ;  sent  to  John- 
son's Island;  and  paroled  in  March,  1865.  He  was 
married,  June  18,  1868,  by  Rev.  David  Shanks,  to 
Emma,  daughter  of  Thomas  Preston  Paxton,  of 
Rockbridge  County,  Va. ;  moved  to  St.  Louis,  Mo., 
in  January,  1869 ;  is  largely  interested  in  the  street 
railways  of  that  city.  Has  three  surviving  children  : 
i.  Richard^  (a  graduate  of  St.  Louis  University,  in 
business  with  his  father) ;  ii.  Roberta ;  and  iii.  Grace 
McCulloch. 

ii.  Mary  Douglass^  McCulloch,  b.  May  14,  1844;  was  m., 
December  24,  1867,  by  Rev.  William  F.  Junkin,  to 
Dr.  George  Baxter  McCorkle ;  educated  at  W.  C;  a 
captain  in  C.  S.  A.,  and  a  descendant  from  "  John 
McCorkle,  the  patriot  hero,  who  filled  a  soldier's 
grave  at  the  Cowpens,  in  S.  C,  January  17,  1781." 
They  have  four  surviving  children :  i.  George  Bax- 
ter ^ ;  ii.  Lelia  Johns ;  iii.  Mary  Juliette ;  and  iv. 
Emma  Strickler  McCorkle. 

iii.  Elizabeth  Virginia  ^  McCulloch,  b.  April  1,  1848 ;  m. 
by  Rev.  David  Shanks,  on  October  2,  1873,  to  Joseph 
Rowland  Echols ;  educated  at  V.  M.  I. ;  4th  sergeant 
D  Company  Cadet  Corps,  C.  S.  A.,  at  New  Market, 
May  12,  1864;  d.  in  1890,  leaving  four  children: 
i.  Mary  Cabell  ^ ;  ii.  Harriet  Miller ;  iii.  Joseph  Row- 
land ;  and  iv.  Robert  McCulloch  Echols. 

167.  Lucy  C.^  McCulloch  married  Col.  Robert  E.  Acock, 
of  Polk  County,  Mo. ;   "  Democratic  presidential  elector  in 
1852,  and  many  times  in  the  Missouri  state  Senate."     He 
died  in  1862,  leaving  an  only  child  :  — 
i.  Bertie^  Acock,  who  was  m.  in  Waco,  Texas,  in  1889,  to 


298  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR   KIN 

Rev.  William  Wilson  De  Hart,  then  rector  of  St.  Paul's 
Episcopal  Church  in  Waco,  now  rector  of  St.  Andrew's 
in  Tampa,  Florida,  a  Grand  Prelate  of  the  Knights  of 
Pythias,  and  a  prominent  Mason.  He  is  a  native  of 
Louisville,  Ky.,  but  the  family  were  originally  from 
New  Jersey  and  New  York,  to  which  belonged  Abigail 
De  Hart,  who  m.  Col.  John  Mayo,  of  Richmond,  and 
became  the  mother  of  Mrs.  Gen.  Winfield  Scott,  Mrs. 
Dr.  R.  H.  Cabell,  etc. 

168.  Champe  Carter^  McCuUoch,  born  February  13, 
1841,  at  "  Westwood,"  near  Osceola,  St.  Clair  "County, 
Mo. ;  received  his  academic  education  at  a  private  school 
near  Lexington,  Va. ;  was  being  educated  for  the  law,  but, 
the  war  breaking  out,  entered  the  army.  At  the  battle  of 
Wilson's  Creek,  Mo.,  he  was  captain  and  assistant  adjutant 
2d  Cavalry  Brigade,  Missouri  State  Guard  (C.  S.  A.),  under 
General  Cawthorn.  Maj.  Charles  E.  Rogers,  of  St.  Louis, 
the  adjutant  of  this  brigade,  having  been  killed  in  that  bat- 
tle, Capt.  McCulloch  was  promoted  major  and  adjutant,  and 
subsequently  fought  in  the  battles  of  Lexington,  Lone 
Jack,  and  Dug  Springs,  Mo.,  and  Elk  Horn  and  Prairie 
Grove,  Ark.  When  the  Missouri  State  troops  were  mus- 
tered into  the  regular  C.  S.  A.,  he  was  detailed  by  Gen. 
Sterling  Price  to  go  to  Missouri  with  Col.  Jackman,  and 
recruit  a  regfiment  of  volunteers.  He  had  succeeded  in 
organizing  a  company  when  they  were  taken  by  surprise  on 
Cedar  Creek,  in  Cedar  County,  Mo.,  by  a  large  body  of 
Federal  troops,  and  the  greater  part  of  the  company  killed, 
wounded,  or  captured.  Major  McCulloch,  escajDing,  made 
his  way  to  Shreveport,  La.,  where  he  was  appointed  clerk  in 
the  ordnance  department,  and  acted  in  that  capacity  during 
the  rest  of  the  war. 

After  the  peace,  he  settled  in  Waco,  Texas ;  married.  May 
22,  1867,  Emma  Basset ;  was  for  many  years  a  successful 
merchant,  having  as  a  partner  his  first  cousin,  Edward  H. 
Carter  (also  of  Virginia  origin) ;  for  some  time  warden  and 


HON.   CHAMPE  CARTER   McCULLOCH 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  299 

vestryman  at  St.  Paul's  Parish,  Waco ;  his  home  is  known 
as  "  Cokimbus  Place ; "  he  retired  from  business  some  years 
ago,  and  was  elected  mayor  of  the  city  of  Waco,  which 
position  he  still  holds.  He  was  tendered,  in  1888,  by  his 
friend,  Gen.  L.  S.  Ross,  the  office  of  Secretary  of  State  of 
Texas,  but  declined  the  appointment.  He  is  a  member  of 
Pat  Cleburne  Camp  of  Confederate  Veterans.  His  wife, 
Emma  Basset,  is  the  daughter  of  Louis  Basset,  Esq.,  of 
Matagorda  County,  Texas,  formerly  of  Sussex,  England  (of 
an  old  Anglo-Norman  family),  and  his  wife,  Sarah  Gwin, 
daughter  of  John  Gwin  and  his  wife,  Jane  Walker,  of 
Cahaba,  Dallas  County,  Alabama. 

168.  Major  and  Mrs.  C.  C.  McCuUoch  have  had  issue 
ten  :  — 

i.  Charles  W.^  McCulloch,  d.  infant. 

ii.  Champe  Carter*^  McCulloch,  Jr.,  b.,  1869;  A.  B., 
Waco  University,  Texas,  1885 ;  Ph.  D.,  Baylor 
University,  Texas,  1891 ;  M.  D.,  University  of  Vir- 
ginia, 1891 ;  ad  eundem  M.  D.,  Columbia  College, 
N.  Y.,  1892 ;  assistant  surgeon,  with  relative  rank  of 
ensign,  U.  S.  Navy,  1892  ;  at  present  (1894)  first 
lieutenant,  medical  department,  U.  S.  A.;  Fellow, 
American  Academy  of  Medicine  ;  m.,  October  23, 
1889,  Mary  Azalete  Gurley,  daughter  of  Davis  Rob- 
ert Gurley,  an  extensive  land-owner  and  planter  of 
McLennan  County,  Texas  [he  was  major  on  staff  of 
Gen.  Van  Dorn,  C.  S.  A.,  and  is  now  Brig.-Gen.  and 
A.  A.  G.  on  staff  of  Gen.  John  B.  Gordon,  com- 
manding United  Confederate  Veterans],  and  his 
wife,  Louisa  Earle.  Issue :  i.  Mary  Gurley,^  b. 
1890 ;  and  ii.  Champe  Carter'  McCidloch,  b.  1892. 
iii.  Mary  Roberta  ^  McCulloch,  d.  infant. 
iv.  Sarah  Basset^  McCulloch,  b.  1872;  graduated,  first 
honor,  Beethoven  Conservatory  of  Music,  St.  Louis, 
Mo.,  1891 ;  m.,  July  26,  1894,  Charles  Ferguson,  a 
civil  engineer,  of  Terrell,  Texas. 
V.  Roderick   Roy*^  McCulloch,  b.   1875;   m.,   February 


300  THE   CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

27,  1895,  his  double  second  cousin,  on  the  maternal 
side,  Cora  Lee  Macon,  of  Houston,  Texas.     He  is  a 
law  student. 
vi.  Louis  Basset '  McCulloch,  b.  1880. 
vii.  Lucy  Adele  McCulloch,  b.  1882. 
viii.  Earle  Cabell  McCulloch,  d.  infant, 
ix.  Shirley  Hope  McCuUoch,  b.  1888. 
X.  Grace  McCuUoch,  b.  1891. 


9.  JOHN  horsley's  descendants. 
44.  Jane  ^  Horsley,  born  about  1780 ;  married,  prior  to 
October,  1804,  John  Roberts.     He  survived  his  wife  many 
years  ;  died  in  1859,  leaving  five  children :  — 
i.  John  ^  Roberts. 
ii.  Joseph  ^  Roberts,  m.  Mrs.  Jane  Perkins,  nee  Harris,  and 

had  issue. 
iii.  Elizabeth  ^  Roberts,  m.  Archibald  Megginson. 
iv.  Addison^  Roberts,  m.  Miss  Harris. 
V.  Frances^  Roberts,  m.  Alexander  Paxton  Campbell  (b. 
October    15,    1816 ;     A.    B.,    Washington    College, 
1839  ;  d.  January  31,  1886)   [eldest  brother  of  the 
late  Prof.  John  L.  Campbell,  A.  B.,  L.L.  D.,  of  Wash- 
ington and  Lee  University ;  and  son  of  Robert  Smith 
Campbell,  b.  March  16,  1790;  d.  December  12, 1861 
(by  his  wife,  Mary  Isabella  Paxton,  daughter  of  Jo- 
seph  Paxton   and  Esther   Lyle) ;  son   of   Alexander 
Campbell  (1750-1806),  son  of  Dougal  Campbell,  who 
came  to   Rockbridge   County,   Va.  (where  he   d.  in 
1795),   from   Pennsylvania;    son  of  John   Campbell 
(and  his  wife,  Grace  Hay),  son  of  Duncan  Campbell, 
of  the  noble  house  of  Breadalbane  (b.  in  Scotland), 
and  his  wife,  Mary  McCoy] .     Issue  :  — 
i.  Robert  A.^  Campbell,  d.  unmarried, 
ii.  Elizabeth  Horsley^  Campbell,  m.  Samuel  Patter- 
son, of  Fincastle.     No  issue, 
iii.  Lavinia  Brown  ^  Campbell,  m.  Walton  G.  Watts, 
of  Roanoke,  Va.     No  issue. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  301 

iv.  Frank  Alexander  ^  Campbell,  m.,  in  1890,  Mattie 
Firly,  of  Roanoke. 


45.  John  *  Horsley,  Jr.,  b.  about  1785  ;  Washington  Col- 
lege, 1806  ;  lawyer  ;  first  attorney  for  the  commonwealth 
of  the  new  county  of  Nelson,  Va.,  1808 ;  which  office  he 
continued  to  hold  until  1817,  when  he  resigned.  He  mar- 
ried, September  25,  1817,  Mary  Chambers  Yancey,  of  Buck- 
ingham, and  removed  to  that  county ;  became  colonel  of 
the  county,  a  representative  in  the  state  legislature,  etc. 
He  died  while  hunting,  at  a  deer  stand,  in  December,  1827. 
[His  wife,  Mary  C.  Yancey,  born  January  22,  1792,  died 
in  May,  1873,  was  a  daughter  of  Maj.  Charles  Yancey, 
born  in  Trinity  Parish,  Louisa  County,  Va.,  March  22, 
1770;  married,  April  5,  1791,  Anne  Spencer  (born  May 
30,  1769,  died  May  29,  1795),  of  Buckingham,  and  re- 
moved to  that  county ;  was  high  sheriff  of  the  county, 
1797-1799;  "for  34  years  in  the  Va.  Legislature;"  mem- 
ber Convention  of  1829-1830 ;  a  noted  man  in  his  day,  was 
called  "the  Duke  of  Buckingham,"  and  was  "a  wheel-horse 
of  the  unterrified  Democracy."  He  died  April  18,  1857. 
He  was  the  son  of  Rev.  Robert  Yancey  (rector  of  Tillotson 
and  Trinity  parishes,  in  Louisa  County,  Va.,  from  1768  to 
his  death,  in  1774),  by  his  wife,  Ann  Crawford,  whose 
funeral  sermon  was  preached  at  "  Traveller's  Rest "  (Ma- 
jor Yancey's  old  home  in  Buckingham  County),  by  Bishop 
Moore,  of  Virginia,  January  1,  1815.  She  was  a  daughter 
of  David  (1697-1766)  and  Ann  Anderson  (1708-1803) 
Crawford.    See  "  Memorials  of  the  Crawfords."]    Issue  :  — 

169.  i.  Robert  Yancey^  Horsley. 

170.  ii.  Ann  EHza  ^  Horsley. 

171.  iii.  Charles  Yancey^  Horsley. 

172.  iv.  John  ^  Horsley. 

169.  Robert  Y.^  Horsley,  born  November  1,  1820 ;  mar- 
ried, April  28,  1852,  Cordelia  S.  Beasley,  of  Appomattox 
County,  Va.,  and  had  issue  :  — 


302  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

i.  Charles  Yancey  "^  Horsley,  b.  1853. 

ii.  Robert  Crawford  "^  Horsley,  b.  1856. 
iii.  Ann  Chambers''  Horsley,  b.  1857  ;  d.  1858. 
iv.  Rose  B.'  Horsley,  b.  1859. 

V.  Mary  J.^  Horsley. 
vi.  Alice  ^  Horsley. 
vii.  Elizabeth  '^  Horsley. 

170.  Ann  Eliza  ^Horsley,  born  January  22,  1822;  liv- 
ing ;  married,  in  1842,  Nicholas  Mills,  Jr.,  of  Richmond, 
Va.     They  had  issue  four  :  — 

173.  i.  Mary  Elizabeth  •^  Mills. 

174.  ii.  SaUie  Payne*' Mills. 

iii.  Ella  Yancey''  Mills,  b.  May  10,  1854;  m.  John 
G.    Friend,    of    Petersburg,    Va. ;    d.    in    May, 
1872,  in  Richmond,  Va.,  s.  p. 
iv.  Anna"  Mills,  d.  young. 
173.  Mary  Elizabeth"  Mills,  born  at  "Traveller's  Rest," 
March   12,    1843 ;   married,  March   3,    1863,  Capt.  Camm 
Patteson  ;  died  in  1878.     [Her  husband  was  born  in  Am- 
herst County,  Va.,   February  21,  1840;    took  the  B.   L. 
degree.    University    of    Virginia,  1859 ;    attorney  at  law 
captain.  Company  D.,  56th  Virginia  Regiment,  C.  S.  A. 
presidential  elector  for  Virginia  on  Democratic  ticket,  1884 
member    State    Central    Democratic    Committee ;    member 
Board  of  Visitors,  University  of  Virginia ;  represents  Buck- 
ingham and  Cumberland  in   Virginia  House  of  Delegates. 
Son  of  Dr.  David  Patteson,  of  "  Sycamore  Islands,"  Buck- 
ingham, and  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Camm,  daughter  of  John 
Camm  (who  represented  Amherst  in  the  House  of  Delegates 
in  1803  and  after),  the  son,  I  believe,  of  the  celebrated  Rev. 
John  Camm,  of  William  and  Mary  College.]     Issue  :  — 
i.  W.  D."^  Patteson,  b.  January  4,  1864 ;  attorney  at  law ; 
m.    January    16,    1895,    Mary    G.    Lewis,   daughter 
of  Zachary  R.  Lewis,  of  Nelson  County. 
ii.  Anna  Mills'^  Patteson,  b.   April  12,   1866;  m.   (first) 
James  Dunlop  Duval,  of  Richmond,  who  was  killed 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  303 

in  a  railroad  accident,  August   7,  1889,  leaving :  i. 

James  Dunlop  ^  Duval,  Jr. 
ii.  Mrs.  Anna  M."^  Duval,  m.  (second),  in  February,  1894, 

her  cousin,  Otho  Mills  Sutton, 
iii.  Mary  Camm  ^  Patteson. 
iv.  Camm  Hobhouse ''  Patteson. 
V.  Ella  F.^  Patteson. 

174.  Sallie  Payne '^  Mills,  born  February  9,  1845;  liv- 
ing ;  married,  in  1868,  Otho  Sutton,  formerly  of  Baltimore, 
now  of  "  Island  View,"  in  Buckingham  County,  Va.     Issue 
four :  — 
i.  Dorsey  M.^  Sutton,  unmarried. 
ii.  Otho  Mills  ^  Sutton,  m.  Mrs.  Anna  M.  Duval, 
iii.  Nicholas  M.^  Sutton. 
iv.  Sarah  ^  Sutton. 

171.  Charles  Y.^  Horsley,  born  November  30,  1824; 
died  July  1,  1894 ;  married  (first),  October  23,  1851,  Mar- 
garet E.  Harris  (born  March  18,  1834;  died  April  24, 
1856),  daughter  of  Col.  John  Harris,  of  Buckingham.  She 
left  two  surviving  children  :  — 

i.  John*^  Horsley,  b.  July  25,  1852. 

ii.  Charles  ^  Horsley,  b.  September  11,  1853 ;  both  unmar- 
ried in  1894. 
Charles  Y.^  Horsley  married  (second),  in  1868,  Jean 
Montgomerie,  of  Lynchburg,  Va.  [daughter  of  Hugh 
Montgomerie,  a  native  of  Scotland,  and  his  wife  (married 
November  26,  1823),  Ann  J.  Colquhoun,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Colquhoun,  a  resident  of  London,  England,  where 
his  daughter  was  educated;  but  of  Scotch  extraction.] 
Issue :  — 

iii.  Nannie  Montgomerie  ^  Horsley. 
iv.  Ella  Tyler «  Horsley. 

v.  Colquhoun  ^  Horsley. 

172.  John  ^  Horsley,  Sr.,  born  August  1,  1826 ;  died 
November  30,    1887;    married    (first),    January    3,    1861, 


304  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

Louisa  Scoville  Brady,  of  Wheeling,  W.  Va.  (born  June 
16, 1839;  died  December  26,  1877).  [A  granddaughter  of 
Judge  Caldwell  and  his  wife.  Miss  Halstead,  and  a  grand- 
niece  of  Capt.  Samuel  Brady,  "  the  Revolutionary  soldier 
who  made  the  famous  leap  when  escaping  from  the  In- 
dians."]    Issue :  — 

i.   George  Brady  ^  Horsley,  d.  infant. 
ii.  Alexander  CaldwelP  Horsley,  b.  June  28,  1863;  m., 
November  12,   1890,  Willie  C.  Gilmer,  a  niece  of 
Gov.  Thomas  Walker  Gilmer,  of  Virginia ;    Secre- 
tary U.  S.  Navy,  1844,  etc.     Issue :  i.  Louise  Sco- 
ville^; and  ii.  Alexander  CaldwelF  Horsley. 
iii.  Mary   Elizabeth  ^   Horsley,    b.    July    10,    1865  ;    m., 
December  19,  1894,  at  "  Traveller's  Rest,"  Henry 
Burton  Taylor, 
iv.  John  Sydnor  ^  Horsley,  b.  April  7,  1867. 
V.  Louise  Brady  ^  Horsley,  b.  March  9,  1869. 
vi.  Ida  Yancey '^  Horsley,  b.  April  7,  1871. 
vii.  Jeannette  Neave  *^  Horsley,  b.  January  19,  1873. 
viii.  Annie  Dunscombe  ^  Horsley,  b.  January  29,  1875. 
ix.  Mildred  Louisa  Scoville*^  Horsley,  b.    December    19, 
1877. 
Mr.  John  ^  Horsley  married  (second),  November  20, 1883, 
Mary  Susan  Stagg,  of  Richmond,  Va.,  and  died,  leaving 
one  child  by  her  :  — 
X.  Fannie  Eldridge  ^  Horsley. 


n.  COL.  WILLIAM  2  CABELL  THE  ELDER'S  BRANCH. 
10.    COL.    SAMUEL    J.^    CABELL's    DESCENDANTS. 

46.  William  Syme*  Cabell,  born  March  13, 1786 ;  Wash- 
ington College,  1804 ;  married,  June  10,  1808,  Elizabeth 
Dorothea  Spotswood  Payne ;  sold  his  lands  in  Amherst  and 
Nelson  counties,  Va.,  in  1832,  and  removed  to  Hinds 
County,  Miss.,  where  he  died  June  27,  1842.  His  wife 
(born  July  1,  1788 ;  died  January  5,  1859)  was  a  daughter 
of  Col.  Philip  Payne,  of  Bedford  County,  Va.  (see  50),  by 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     305 

his  wife,   Eliza  Dandridge   (born  September  12,  1764),  a 
granddaughter  of  Gov.  Alexander  Spotswood,  and  sister-in- 
law  of  Patrick  Henry.     Issue,  an  only  child  :  — 
i.  William    Alexander    Spotswood^    Cabell,   b.   June    16, 
1811,  in  Nelson  County,  Va. ;  removed  with  his  father 
in  1832  to  Mississippi ;    m.,  September  5,   1838,  by 
Rev.  D.   Comfort,    a    Presbyterian    minister,  to    Ann 
Elvira  Elizabeth  Payne,  of  Bedford  County,  Va. 

He  d.  in  Hinds  County,  Miss.,  January  2, 1883.  His 
wife  (b.  October  27,  1813 ;  d.  May  10,  1879)  was  the 
eldest  daughter  of  Dr.  Nathaniel  West  Payne  (son  of 
Col.  Philip  Payne),  by  his  first  wife  (m.  December  15, 
1812)  Catherine  Willson  Alexander,  daughter  of  Capt. 
Robert  Alexander,  of  Virginia.  He  was  a  physician  of 
prominence ;  went  from  Virginia  to  Clinton  County, 
Miss.,  about  1828,  where  his  first  wife  d.  July  26, 
1833.     After  her  death  he  returned  to  Virginia. 

They  had  only  two  children  :  — 
i.  Sarah  Syme*^  Cabell,  b.  February  18,  1811,  in 
Hinds  County,  Miss. ;  m.,  February  4,  1864,  Col. 
C.  L.  Thomas,  a  cotton  planter,  a  breeder  of  fine 
stock,  a  man  of  fine  social  standing  in  Hinds 
County,  Miss.,  where  he  is  now  residing  with  his 
wife  ;  without  issue. 
ii.  WiUiam  Alexander*'  Cabell,  b.  May  23,  1843; 
served  three  years  in  the  C.  S.  A.,  one  year  a  pri- 
vate in  4th  Mississippi  Cavalry,  Adams'  Brigade, 
and  two  years  in  Bradford's  Scouts,  who  oper- 
ated on  the  Mississippi  River  between  Baton 
Rouge  and  Vicksburg ;  after  the  war  studied  med- 
icine, but  never  followed  it  as  a  profession,  prefer- 
ring cotton  planting,  to  which  life  he  has  devoted 
himself.  He  m.,  September  14,  1871,  Miss  How- 
ard Jefferson,  of  Hinds  County,  Miss.,  daughter 
of  Peter  Field  Jefferson,  a  lineal  descendant  of 
Field  Jefferson,  a  brother  of  Col.  Peter  Jefferson, 
the  father  of  Thomas  Jefferson.     Issue :  — 


306  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

i.  Syme  Thomas^  Cabell,  b.  June  29,  1872. 
ii.  William  SpotswoocU  Cabell,  b.  June  29, 1872. 
iii.  Couitenay  Parham^  Cabell,  b.  July  8,  1874. 
iv.  Lilith  Cabell',  b.  October  27,  1879. 

[Under  the  old  laws  of  primogeniture  the  fore- 
going twins  would  be  the  present  legal  represen- 
tatives of  old  Dr.  William  Cabell,  the  emigrant, 
descending  as  they  do  "  from  the  eldest  son  of 
the  eldest  son."] 


47.  Mildred  Meriwether^  Cabell  married,  about  1803, 
Joseph  Kirkland  Green,  a  native  and  resident  of  Jefferson 
County,  Miss.,  engaged  in  cotton  planting,  and  went  with 
her  husband  to  that  State.  He  was  a  son  of  Col.  Thomas 
Marston  Green  and  his  wife,  Martha  Wills  (who  is  said 
to  have  descended  from  the  distinguished  Howard  family 
of  England),  both  natives  of  James  City  County,  Va.  Col. 
Thomas  M.  Green  was  a  colonel  in  the  Continental  army ; 
after  the  Revolution  he  removed  to  Georgia,  which  State 
claimed  a  portion  of  the  Mississippi  territory,  organized 
Bourbon  County  out  of  a  portion  of  her  claim,  and  sent 
Col.  Green  there  with  a  commission  as  magistrate.  It  was 
while  acting  in  this  capacity  that  he  united  in  the  bonds  of 
matrimony  Gen.  Andrew  Jackson  and  Mrs.  Robards,  who 
was  visiting  at  his  home  on  Coles  Creek,  in  the  present  Jef- 
ferson County,  Miss.  Col.  Thomas  Marston  Green  repre- 
sented the  Mississippi  territory  in  the  Seventh  Congress  of 
the  United  States,  1802-1803,  and  it  was  in  Washington 
that  his  son,  Joseph  K.  Green,  first  met  Miss  Cabell,  whose 
father  was  then  the  representative  of  the  Amherst  (Va.) 
district. 

47.  Mrs.  Mildred  M.'^  Cabell  Green  had  issue  five :  — 
175.     i.  Martha  Augusta^  Green. 

ii.  Samuel  CabelP  Green,  m.,  in  1832,  his  first 
cousin,  Augusta  Kirkland,  daughter  of  Archi- 
bald Kirkland  and  his  wife,  Jane  Green  (sister 
of   Joseph   K.    Green),    of   Jefferson    County, 


THE  FOUNDER'S   GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  307 

Miss.       He    owned  a  large    cotton  plantation, 
worked  by  150  negroes;  d.  in  January,  1835,  s.  j). 

176.  iii.  Lucy  Ann  ^  Green. 

iv.  Sarah   Virginia^  Green,  m.  Amnion    Hancock,  a 
leading    merchant    of    Lynchburg,    Va.,    and 
mayor  o£  the  town  in  1829,  1837,  and  ISil. 
She  d.  s.  p. 
V.  Thomas  H.^  Green,  d.  young. 
47.  Mrs.  Mildred   M.^  Cabell  Green  m.  (second)   Maj. 
Levin  Cartwright,  U.  S.  A.     She  died  June  14,  1819,  at 
Choctaw  Agency,  in  north  Alabama,  leaving  an  only  son  by 
her  second  husband  :  — 

vi.  Levin  ^  Cartwright,  d.  young. 

175.  Martha  Augusta^  Green,  born  January  31,  1806; 
married,  January  8,  1829,  Joseph  Eggleston  Jones ;  she 
died  October  10,  1864.  Her  husband  (born  January  2, 
1793 ;  died  April  17,  1852)  was  the  youngest  of  twelve  chil- 
dren of  Joseph  and  Anna  Jones,  of  Albemarle  County,  Va. 
He  served  with  the  Mississippi  troops  in  the  War  of  1812, 
under  Maj.  Thomas  Hinds,  who  married  a  sister  of  Joseph 
K.  Green ;  he  was  in  the  battle  of  New  Orleans,  January  8, 
1815.  Gen.  Jackson,  in  a  General  Order,  complimented  the 
Mississippi  cavalry  and  their  gallant  leader,  Maj.  Thomas 
Hinds.  After  his  marriage,  Mr.  J.  E.  Jones  moved  to 
Claiborne  County,  Miss.,  and  owned  at  his  death  2000  acres 
of  land,  devoted  to  the  raising  of  cotton.  Like  his  father, 
he  had  twelve  children  :  — 

177.  i.  Joseph  Cabell  ^  Jones. 

ii.  Thomas  Henry  ^  Jones,  b.  March  6,  1831 ;  served 
in  4th  Mississippi  Cavalry,  under  Gen.  N.  B. 
Forrest,  in  the  C.  S.  A. ;  d.  June  7, 1868  j  un- 
married. 

178.  iii.  Eugene  Demetrius  ^  Jones. 

iv.  Augusta^  Jones,  b.  1833;  d.  1844. 
V.  Samuel   Cabell '^  Jones,  b.   December    12,   1834; 
"was   returning    home    (from    the    Louisville 


308  THE   CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

Medical  College,  where  lie  had  graduated)  on 
the  steamboat  Princess,  one  of  the  finest  on 
the  Mississippi  River,  when  it  blew  up,  Feb- 
ruary 27,  1857,  killing  him  and  more  than 
fifty  others."     He  never  married. 

179.  vi.  Sarah  Virginia  "^  Jones. 

180.  vii.  Archelaus  Kirkland  ^  Jones. 

181.  viii.  William  Syme  ^  Jones. 

ix.  Meriwether  Lewis  ^  Jones,  b.  July  8,  1842  ;  "  the 
flower  and  the  pride  of  the  family."  When 
the  war  began,  he  was  at  the  head  of  his  class 
in  the  University  of  Mississippi ;  joined  Com- 
pany K,  12th  Mississippi  Regiment,  C.  S.  A., 
and  was  killed  in  the  battle  of  Ellison's  Mills, 
near  Richmond,  June  27,  1862  ;  unmarried. 
X.  James  Railey  ^  Jones,  b.  1844  j  d.  1848. 

182.  xi.  Lucy  Anna  ^  Jones. 

183.  xii.  Meredith  Dabney  ^  Jones. 

177.  Joseph    CabelP   Jones,    born    October   8,    1829; 
served  in  Cowan's  Battery,  C.  S.  A.,  throughout  the  war ; 
was  with  the  Western  army  ;  is  now  a  farmer  near  St.  Elmo 
post-office.   Miss.      He   married,   January   27,  1852,  Jane 
Carpenter  (born  January  6,  1832 ;  died  September  7,  1867), 
and  had  issue  :  — 
i.  Mary  Augusta  ^  Jones,  b.  December  3,  1852. 
ii.  Joseph  Horace  ^  Jones,  b.  July  25,  1854 ;  m.,  March 
27,   1884,  Sallie   Alba  Fortenbery  (b.  December  9, 
1864),  and  has :  i.  Eva  Alba  ^ ;   ii.  Archie  C.^ ;  iii. 
Virginia^ ;  and  iv.  Joseph  Lucien^  Jones. 
iii.  Archie  Eggleston  ^  Jones,   b.  October  10,  1856 ;  m., 
October  23,  1888,  Julia  Hughes  (179),  and  has :  i. 
Preston  Hughes'* ;  and  ii.  Mary  Augusta^  Jones. 
iv.  Martha  Henrietta  ^  Jones,  d.  1884  ;  unmarried. 
V.  Claude  Marston  ^  Jones,  b.  January  25,  1861 ;  m..  May 
17,  1889,  Ida  May  Thompson,  and  has :  i.  Josie  Ca- 
bell ^ ;  and  ii.  Ida  May  ^  Jones. 
vi.  Janie  Eva  ^  Jones,  b.  February  11, 1863 ;  m.,  February 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     309 

13,  1884,  Joseph  H.  Little;  and  had:   i.   Virginia 
Augusta  ^    (dead) ;    ii.    Joseph    Claude  ^ ;   iii.    Dora 
Velma  ^ ;  and  iv.  William  Kirby  ^  Little. 
vii.  Lucy  Ruth  ^  Jones,  d.  1882  ;  unmarried. 

178.  Eugene  Demetrius'^  Jones,  born  May  28,  1832; 
was  second  lieutenant,  Company  K,  36th  Mississippi  Infan- 
try, C.  S.  A. ;  was  in  Vicksburg  during  the  siege ;  was  shot 
in  right  ankle  in  battle  in  front  of  Atlanta,  and  discharged 
permanently  disabled.  He  is  now  a  successful  planter  near 
Carlisle,  Miss.  He  married  (first),  August  11,  1864,  Anna 
M.  Jones,  who  died  without  issue  June  17,  1865.  He  mar- 
ried (second),  January  17,  1867,  Mary  S.  Jones,  and  has 
one  son :  — 

i.  Eugene  Demetrius  ^  Jones,  Jr.,  b.  in  November,  1867. 

179.  Sarah  Virginia  ^  Jones,  born  February  22,  1837  ; 
married,  February  25,  1858,  Dr.  William  Preston  Hughes 
(born  December  9,  1827),  a  native  of  Claiborne  County, 
Miss  ;  graduated  at  the  Louisiana  Medical  College  in  1854 ; 
is  now  living  in  the  old  homestead  at  St.  Elmo,  Miss.,  en- 
gaged in  both  cotton  planting  and  the  practice  of  medicine. 
Issue :  — 

i.  Julia  ^  Hughes,  b.  1863;  m.  Archie  E.  Jones  (177). 
ii.  Helen  Erna^  Hughes,  b.  1767;  m.,  1889,  Samuel  Ed- 
ward Dudley,  and  had:  i.  Sarah  Virginia^;  and  ii. 
Grace  ^  Dudley. 
iii.  Henry  Preston  ^  Hughes,  b.  1869. 
iv.  Thomas  Meriwether^  Hughes,  b.  1873. 
V.  Mildred  Virginia^  Hughes,  b.  1874. 
vi.  Catharine  Byrnes^  Hughes,  b.  1881. 

180.  Archelaus  Kirkland'^  Jones,  born  June  3,  1839; 
graduated  at  University  of  Mississippi,  1860 ;  with  his  two 
younger  brothers,  enlisted  in  Company  K,  12th  Mississippi 
Regiment,  in  May,  1861 ;  reached  Manassas  the  night  after 
the  battle  of  July  21,  1861.  The  captain  of  his  company  was 
killed  at  Seven  Pines,  May  31,  1862,  when  he  was  elected 
captain.  His  company  went  into  the  seven  days'  fight  near 
Richmond,  Va.,  June  26  to  July  1,  1862,  with  four  swords 


310  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

and  sixty-three  muskets,  and  came  out  with  one  sword  and 
fourteen  guns,  all  the  rest  killed  or  wounded.  His  brother, 
Meriwether,  was  killed  at  Ellison's  Mills,  June  27 ;  and  his 
second  lieutenant,  John  C.  Calhoun,  his  wife's  only  brother, 
was  killed  at  Frazier's  Farm.  He  was  wounded  at  Frazier's 
Farm,  June  30,  1862  ;  at  Bristoe  Station,  August  26,  1862  ; 
and  Yellow  Tavern,  August  18,  1864,  and  captured  and 
sent  to  Fort  Delaware ;  after  four  weeks  was  exchanged  as 
being  unfit  for  service.  Regained  his  health,  and  rejoined  his 
command  in  March,  1865.  Was  second  officer  in  command 
of  his  regiment  at  Fort  Gregg,  in  front  of  Petersburg,  April 
2,  1865,  "  the  last  and  most  sanguinary  battle  of  the  war, 
considering  the  number  of  men  engaged  on  our  side ;  with 
200  men  we  held  the  fort  for  two  hours  against  Gibbon's 
whole  corps,  supported  by  two  divisions  from  another  corps. 
We  killed  not  less  than  1000  Federals.  We  belono-ed  to 
Featherston-Harris  Brigade,  Mahone's  Division."  From 
Fort  Gregg  he  was  taken  to  Washington,  and  was  confined 
in  the  "  Old  Capitol "  prison.  "  None  of  the  prisoners  slept 
the  night  Mr.  Lincoln  was  assassinated,  owing  to  the  howl- 
ing of  the  mob  outside,  who  threatened  to  tear  down  the 
walls  and  murder  them."  From  thence  he  was  taken  to 
Johnson's  Island,  in  Lake  Erie,  detained  until  June  26, 
when  he  was  released ;  reached  his  home  July  4,  1865. 
He  participated  in  all  the  great  battles  fought  by  the  Army 
of  Northern  Virginia,  except  two,  when  he  was  disabled  by 
wounds.  He  was  elected  clerk  of  Claiborne  County  (Miss.) 
Chancery  Court  in  1877,  and  still  fills  that  ofiice.  He 
married,  October  24,  1867,  Mary  Henry  Calhoun  (born  Sep- 
tember 28,  1842),  daughter  of  Ezekiel  W.  Calhoun,  of 
South  Carolina,  who  was  first  cousin  of  John  C.  Calhoun, 
the  statesman.  He  resides  at  Port  Gibson,  Miss.,  and  has 
issue :  — 

i.  John  Meriwether'  Jones,  b.  July  26,  1868. 

ii.  Cabell  Calhoun '  Jones,  b.  January  24,  1870. 

iii.  Anna  Amelia'  Jones,  b.  October  23,  1871. 

iv.  Archelaus  Ku'kland'  Jones,  b.  May  8,  1873. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN      311 

V.  William  Thomas  ^  Jones,  b.  March  19,  1875. 
vi.  Mary  Low  ^  Jones,  b.  April  8,  1877. 
vii.  Ettie  Elise  ^  Jones,  b.  May  11,  1879. 
viii.  Virginia  Hughes^  Jones,  b.  February  23,  1881. 

181.  William  Syme  ^  Jones,  born  November  10,  1840 ; 
enlisted  in  Company  K,  12tli  Mississippi  Regiment,  C.  S. 
A.,  May,  1861 ;  discharged  at  Davis  Ford,  on  surgeon's  cer- 
tificate of  disability,  December,  1861 ;  again  enlisted  in 
1863  in  4tli  Mississippi  Cavalry ;  wounded  in  battle  near 
Canton,  Miss.,  taken  prisoner,  and  confined  in  Fort  Dela- 
ware till  close  of  war.  He  is  now  eno^aoed  in  farminor-  at 
Meridian,  Miss.  He  married,  in  1880,  Martha  Patterson ; 
she  died,  leaving  one  child  :  — 

i.  William  Spencer  ^  Jones,  b.  1887. 

182.  Lucy  Anna  ^  Jones,  born  October  27,  1846;  mar- 
ried, April  25,  1866,  James  Grafton  Spencer  (born  Septem- 
ber 13,  1844),  a  native  of  Claiborne  County,  Miss.  Left 
Oakland  College,  Miss.  ;  entered,  as  a  private.  Cowan's 
Battery,  C.  S.  A.,  and  served  throughout  the  entire  war. 
He  then  began  farming  near  Port  Gibson,  Miss. ;  was 
elected  to  the  lower  house  of  the  Mississippi  legislature  in 
1892,  and  on  November  6,  1894,  was  elected,  as  a  Democrat, 
to  the  Fifty-fourth  United  States  Congress  from  the  Seventh 
District  of  Mississippi.     Issue  :  — 

i.  Sarah  Marshall  ^  Spencer,  b.  July  3,  1869. 
ii.  Horatio  Nelson  ^  Spencer,  b.  December  16,  1871. 
iii.  Elizabeth  Grafton  '^  Spencer,  b.  July  28,  1873. 
iv.  Meredith  Jones  ^  Spencer,  b.  July  9,  1876. 
V.  James  Grafton  ^  Spencer,  b.  April  12,  1888. 

183.  Meredith  Dabney^  Jones,  born  March  26,  1848; 
graduated  at  Jefferson  Medical  College,  Philadelphia,  Pa., 
in  April,  1870;  commissioned  assistant  surgeon,  U.  S.  N., 
in  May,  1871,  and  surgeon  in  April,  1884.  Sailed  as  sur- 
geon on  U.  S.  relief  ship  Rodgers,  Lieut.  Berry  command- 
ing, in  search  of  Capt.  De  Long  and  party,  who  had  gone 
out  on  the  Jeannette  in  search  of  the  north  pole.  The 
Rodgers  burned  while   blocked  in  the  ice  in  the   Arctic 


312  THE   CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

Ocean,  and  the  crew  had  a  most  romantic  experience  and 
wonderful  escape.  He  resigned  from  the  navy  in  May, 
1885 ;  is  now  an  aurist,  residing  in  St.  Louis,  Mo. ;  was 
elected  to  fill  the  chair  of  otology  in  the  Barnes  Medical 
College,  St.  Louis,  in  June,  1892,  which  position  he  still  fills. 
He  married,  September  25,  1884,  Arie  Craig  (born  April  6, 
1866),  daughter  of  John  Watson  Craig  and  Caroline  Cross 
Craig,  of  Chambersburg,  Pa.,  and  has  one  child :  — 
i.  Arie  Niccols^  Jones,  b.  September  4,  1888. 

176.  Lucy  Ann  ^  Green,  born  about  1810 ;  married 
(first),  December  17,  1829,  William  Carpenter ;  he  died 
February  2,  1831,  and  their  only  child,  William  ^  Carpenter, 
died  infant.  Mrs.  Lucy  Ann  Green  married  (second),  April 
28,  1833,  Levi  Cunningham  Harris.  He  was  in  the  War 
of  1812 ;  in  the  cavalry  regiment  commanded  by  Maj. 
Thomas  Hinds ;  was  shot  through  the  right  shoulder  in  the 
battle  of  New  Orleans,  January  8,  1815,  and  forever  after 
lost  the  use  of  his  riaht  arm  and  hand.  Prior  to  the  war 
he  was  a  successful  merchant.  He  was  a  most  excellent, 
elegant.  Christian  gentleman.  He  died  at  his  home  in  Clin- 
ton, Hinds  County,  Miss.,  January  28,  1863.  His  wife 
died  January  12,  1854.     Issue  eight :  — 

i.  Marie  Louise  ^  Harris,  b.  1834 ;  d.  1834. 
ii.  Levi  CabelP  Harris,  b.  1836;  d.  1836. 

184.  iii.  Elizabeth  Savage  ^  Harris. 

iv.  Mildred  Green «  Harris,  b.  1841;  d.  1855. 

185.  V.  Mary  Bradford^  Harris. 

186.  vi.  Lucy  Ann  ^  Harris. 

187.  vii.  Martha  Augusta  ^  Harris. 

viii.  Charles  Jordan  ^  Harris,  b.  1849 ;  d.  1863. 
184.  Elizabeth  Savage  *^  Harris,  born  December  25,  1837  ; 
married,    August   28,    1863,    John    Templeton  Green,    of 
Vicksburg,  who  died  October  9,  1892.     She  died  in  Vicks- 
burg,  Miss.,  May  25,  1873.     Issue  :  — 
i.  Thomas  Marston^   Green,  b.    at  "White    HaU,"  Clai- 
borne County,  Miss.,  May  27,  1864  ;  living  at  Vicks- 
burg; unmarried. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  313 

ii.  Elizabeth  Harris'  Green,  b.  in  Clinton,  Miss.,  Septem- 
ber 30,  1865 ;  m.,  AprH  11,  1888,  in  Selma,  Ala., 
Junius  Moore  Riggs,  of  Montgomery,  librarian,  etc., 
of  the  State  of  Alabama. 

iii.  Sidney  Stuart'  Green,  b.  1868;  d.  1871. 

iv.  Harris '  Green,  b.  at  Goodrich's  Landing,  East  Carroll 
Parish,  La.,  September  5,  1870. 

V.  Frank  Templeton  '  Green,  b.  1872 ;  d.  1874. 

185.  Mary  Bradford  *'  Harris,  b.  May  14,  1843 ;  married 
H.  M.  Colson,  a  native  of  Port  Gibson,  Miss.  He  served 
through  the  war  as  a  private  in  Company  K,  12th  Missis- 
sippi Regiment,  C.  S.  A.,  Northern  Virginia ;  was  severely 
wounded  at  Frazier's  Farm,  June  30,  1862 ;  now  a  mer- 
chant of  Port  Gibson.     Their  only  child  :  — 

i.  Lucy  Hughes '  Colson,  b.  March,   1872 ;   m.,  July  20, 
1893,  Mr.  W.  G.  MiUender. 

186.  Lucy  Ann  ^  Harris,  born  July  9,  1845  ;  married. 
May  4,  1872,  Daniel  Partridge.  A  native  of  Mobile,  Ala. ; 
enlisted  in  5th  Alabama  Regiment,  Col.  R.  E.  Rodes,  C.  S. 
A.,  Northern  Virginia ;  served  three  years  as  first  lieuten- 
ant in  the  line,  and  the  last  year  as  captain  on  the  staff  of 
Brig.-Gen.  Sanders.  He  is  a  successful  cotton  broker  at 
Selma,  Ala.     His  wife  died  February  4,  1884.     Issue  :  — 

i.  Daniel '  Partridge,  b.  March  3,  1873. 
ii.  Preston  Hughes'  Partridge,  b.  September  27,  1874. 
iii.  Lucy  Green '  Partridge,  b.  May  4,  1876. 
iv.  Charles  Stevens'  Partridge,  b.  June  30,  1879. 

v.  Mary  Winslow'  Partridge,  b.  April  29,  1881. 
vi.  Mildred  CabeU'  Partridge,  b.  1883;  d.  1884. 

187.  Martha  Augusta  ^  Harris,  born  February  9,  1847 ; 
married,  October  12,  1870,  Dr.  W.  C.  McCaleb,  a  native  of 
Adams  County,  Miss.  Entered  the  C.  S.  A.  as  surgeon  of 
the  4th  Mississippi  Cavalry ;  afterwards  promoted  to  chief 
of  the  medical  board  at  the  Brandon  Post.  He  is  both 
physician  and  cotton  planter.  Resides  in  Adams  County, 
Miss.  His  wife  died  July  17,  1872,  leaving  an  only 
child :  — 


314  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

i.  Lucy  Augusta '  McCaleb,  b.  May  10,  1872. 


48.  Samuel  Jordan^  Cabell,  Jr.,  born  November  11, 
1787 ;  educated  at  Mr.  Lyle's  school  in  Prince  Edward 
County,  and  at  Washington  College ;  graduated  in  medi- 
cine, practiced  in  Nelson  a  good  many  years,  and  then 
removed  to  Franklin  County.  He  married,  June  1,  1827, 
in  the  west  district  of  Tennessee,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  S.  Harwell, 
nee  Avery.  He  died  December  30,  1845,  in  Franklin 
County,  Va.  His  widow  (who  married,  thirdly,  Col.  Mau- 
rice Langhorn,  of  Lynchburg)  died  January  6,  1875.  Issue : 
i.  Edward  Avery'  Cabell,  b.  May  8,  1832;  never 

married, 
ii.  Sally  Syme'  Cabell,  b.  June  13,  1834;  m.,  Feb- 
ruary 22,  1854,  John  W.  Morris,  of  Carolina ; 
d.  July  19,  1855,  s.  p. 
iii.  Samuel  Jordan '  Cabell,    b.    August  23,   1836 ; 
educated  at  University  of  Virginia ;   member 
25th  Virginia  Infantry,  C.  S.  A. ;  d.  at  Mon- 
terey, Highland  County,  September  3,  1861 ; 
unmarried. 
iv.  William  Washington  '  Cabell,  b.  May  10,  1838; 
an  engineer ;  was  killed  near  Clifton  Forge,  on 
the  Central  Railroad,  by  the  premature  explo- 
sion of  a  blast,  November  15,  1855  ;  unmar- 
ried. 
V.  Patrick  Henry '  Cabell,  b.  May  2,  1840 ;  m.,  Oc- 
tober 11,  1860,  Lela  Saunders,  of  Bedford ; 
member  11th  Virginia  Regiment,  C.  S.  A. ;  d. 
at  Fairfax  Court  House,  September  6,  1861, 
s.  p. 

188.  vi.  Margaret  E.^  Cabell. 

189.  vii.  Emma  E.'  Cabell. 

\dii.  Elvira  Ann^  Cabell,  b.  1846;  d.  1846. 
188.  Margaret  E.'  Cabell,  born  June  5,  1842 ;  married, 
October  16,  1861,  in  Lynchburg,  by  Rev.  William  S.  Ham- 
mond, to  George  M.  Waddill,  of  Charles  City  County.     He 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     315 

had  graduated  in  and  commenced  the  practice  of  law  in  the 
early  part  o£  1861 ;  entered  the  C.  S.  A.  as  captain  of  "  the 
Charles  City  Southern  Guards,"  one  of  the  first  Virginia 
companies  to  enlist  in  service ;  was  stationed  at  Yorktown, 
under  Gen.  Magruder.  He  was  soon  promoted  major  of 
the  53d  Virginia  Regiment,  and  after  the  battle  of  Malvern 
Hill  was  commissioned  as  colonel.  His  health  failing  in 
the  latter  part  o£  1864,  he  was  assigned  to  special  service 
at  Richmond  until  the  close  of  the  war.  As  there  was  then 
not  much  to  be  done  at  law,  he  went  into  the  sawmill  busi- 
ness, in  Surry  County,  until  1871,  when  he  removed  to  Isle 
of  Wight  County,  and  again  took  up  his  profession.  He 
represented  that  county  as  a  Republican  in  the  Virginia 
House  of  Delegates  in  1879-1880.  Died  at  Windsor,  Isle 
of  Wight  County,  March  14,  1885,  aged  forty-seven,  leav- 
ing his  widow,  who  still  survives,  the  last  of  her  father's 
children.     Issue :  — 

i.  George  Cabell^  Waddill,  b.  November  29,  1862;  d. 

March  18,  1872. 
ii.  Elizabeth   Avery «  Waddill,  b.  November   22,  1864; 
m.  Edmund  T.  Waddill,  of  Charles    City  County, 
member    Signal    Corps,   C.    S.  A. ;    now   a    farmer 
and  merchant.     Issue  :  i.  Samuel  Cabell '  ;  ii.  John 
Lamb^;  iii.  Elma  Leigh  ^;  iv.  George  Major  ^;  and 
V.  Edmund  Thomas  ^  Waddill. 
iii.  Isabella  Goggin  ^  Waddill,  b.  November  25,  1866 ;  m. 
Samuel  E.  Atkinson,  of  Richmond,  Va.     Issue :  i. 
Robert  T.'^  Atkinson. 
iv.  Sallie  Syme^  Waddill,  b.  May  21,  1868;  m.  William 
P.  Lawton,  merchant,  of  Richmond.     She  d.  three 
years  after  her  marriage,  leaving :  i.  Ellen  Court- 
hope^;  and  ii.  George  CabelF  Lawton. 
V.  Thompson  Burroughs''  Waddill,  b.  March  18,  1870. 
Agent  for  the  T.  C.  Williams  Tobacco  Company,  of 
Richmond,  in  Norfolk  ;  unmarried, 
vi.  Emma  CabelP  Waddill,  b.  April  15,  1873;  m.  Joseph 
Floyd  Huxter,  merchant,  of   Richmond,   Va.,  and 
has :  i.  Joseph  Floyd  ^  Huxter. 


316  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

vii.  Maofffie  Heath  ^  Waddill ;  unmarried, 
viii.  Mattie  Redwood  ^  Waddill ;  unmarried. 

189.  Emma  E.^  Cabell,  born  November  3,  1843 ;  mar- 
ried, March  15,  1865,  in  Lynchburg,  by  Rev.  William 
McGee,  to  Davis  Ayres,  Esq.,  of  Rocky  Mount,  FrankHn 
County,  Va.     She  died  July  23,  1877.     Issue :  — 

i.  Edward  Cabell*^  Ayres,  b.  1866;  d.  1870. 
ii.  Elizabeth  Avery  ^  Ayres,  b.  1867;  d.  1867. 
iii.  Sallie  Syme  ^  Ayres,  b.  January  2,  1869  ;  m.  Rev.  James 

Minor  Holladay,  of  Rocky  Mount,  and  has :  i.  Emily 

Cabeir  Holladay. 
iv.  Cabell  Reed*'  Ayres,  b.  1871 ;  d.  1871. 
V.  Samuel  Cabell*'  Ayres,  b.  July  15,  1872;  now  living  at 

Rocky  Mount. 

49.  Paulina  R.*  Cabell,  born  in  1789 ;  married,  May  28, 
1817,  by  Rev.  W.  S.  Reid,  to  George  Whitlock,  Esq.,  of 
Lynchburg,  and  died  in  1827,  leaving  an  only  child,  Sa- 
rah C.'^  Whitlock,  b.  in  1819 ;  married,  February  22,  1838, 
by  Rev.  Mr.  Hutchinson,  to  Dr.  Richard  L.  Bohannon,  of 
Richmond,  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Richmond  Medical 
College.  Mrs.  Sarah  C.  Bohannon  is  still  living,  having 
had  issue :  — 

i.  George  Whitlock  ^  Bohannon,  d.  in  C.  S.  A. ;  un- 
married. 
ii.  Joseph  ^  Bohannon,  d.  in  C.  S.  A. ;  unmarried, 
iii.  Elizabeth  Pauline  ^  Bohannon,  living ;  unmarried. 
190.  iv.  Martha  E.*'  Bohannon. 

V.  Charles  Grattan  Cabell^  Bohannon. 

190.  Martha  E.*'  Bohannon,  born  December  26,  1852; 
married,  March  3,  1875,  by  Rev.  Moses  D.  Hoge,  to  Charles 
Lorraine,  Esq.,  of  Richmond,  Va.,  and  has :  i.  Charles  Ca- 
bell " ;  ii.  Emma  Louise  ^ ;  iii.  Wellf ord  Bohannon  ^ ;  iv. 
Martha  Evelyn  '^  (dead)  ;  v.  Lillian  Hoge^ ;  vi.  George  Ber- 
nard ^ ;  and  vii.  Alfred  Lennox  ^  Lorraine. 


50.  Margaret  Washington^  Cabell,  married  (first),  De- 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  317 

cember  1, 1815,  at  "  Soldier's  Joy,"  by  Rev.  John  Hendren, 
to  John  Higginbotham  (brother  of  Daniel  Higginbotham). 
He  died  February  23,  1822.    Issue  :  — 
191.    i.  WilliamThomas  ^  Higginbotham. 

ii.  Laura  ^  Higginbotham,  b.  1819,  d.  1821. 
50.  Mrs.  Margaret  W.  Higginbotham,  married  (second), 
September  17,  1839,  at  Lynchburg,  by  Rev.  WiUiam  S. 
Reid,  to  Dr.  Nathaniel  West  Payne,  of  Amherst  County, 
Va.,  whose  eldest  daughter  by  his  first  marriage  was  the 
wife  of  William  A.  S.  Cabell  (son  of  46).  Mrs.  Payne  died 
February  17,  1881,  at  the  residence  of  her  son,  W.  T.  Hig- 
ginbotham (191),  in  Upshur  County,  W.  Va.,  without  issue 
by  her  second  husband,  who  was  a  son  of  Col.  Philip  Payne 
and  his  wife,  Eliza  Dandridge  (see  46),  a  descendant  from 
Gov.  John  West,  one  of  the  founders  of  Virginia. 

Col.  Philip  Payne  was  a  son  of  Col.  John  Payne,  of 
"  Whitehall,"  frequently  a  member  of  the  House  of  Bur- 
gesses from  Goochland,  who  died  in  1784 ;  son  of  George 
Payne,  sheriff  of  Goochland,  who  died  in  1744,  by  his  wife, 
Mary  Woodson,  daughter  of  Robert  and  Elizabeth  Ferris 
Woodson,  of  "  Curls,"  in  Henrico. 

191.  William  Thomas  ^  Higginbotham,  of  Buckhannon, 
Upshur  County,  W.  Va.,  born  August  19,  1818 ;  married 
(first),  August  22,  1839,  at  "  Soldier's  Joy,"  by  Rev.  Cle- 
land  K.  Nelson,  to  Mary  F.  Coleman  ("  whose  mother  was 
a  Miss  Higginbotham  ").  She  died  July  31,  1871,  and  Mr. 
W.  T.  Higginbotham  married  (second),  October  7,  1875, 
Mrs.  Anna  L.  Carroll,  daughter  of  Dr.  Randolph  Patterson, 
of  Buckingham  County,  Va.  He  died  without  issue  by  her. 
191.  William  T.^  and  Mary  F.  Higginbotham  had  issue 
seven  :  — 

i.  John  Carlton  ^  Higginbotham,  b.  November  11,  1842 ;  a 
student  at  Lynchburg  College  when  the  war  began ; 
entered  the  C.  S.  A.  as  captain  in  1861 ;  promoted 
major  and  lieutenant-colonel  in  1862  ;  colonel,  1863  ; 
brigadier  -  general.  May,  1864,  being  one  of  the 
youngest  of&cers  of  these  grades  in  the  service ;  was 


318  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

wounded  seven  times,  and  at  last  killed  at  Spottsyl- 
vania  Court  House,  May  10,  1864,  while  command- 
ino-  the  25th  Virginia  Regiment,  Jones'  Brigade, 
before  his  commission  as  brigadier-general  reached 
him  ;  unmarried. 

ii.  Frances^  Higginbotham,  b.  1846  ;  d.  1847. 

iii.  Coleman  Cabell  ^  Higginbotham,  of  "  Weston,"  Upshur 
County,  W.  Va.,  b.  December  16,  1848 ;  m.,  Sep- 
tember 15,  1876,  by  Rev.  Mr.  Dana,  to  Mary  Ida 
Day,  daughter  of  Dr.  R.  H.  B.  Day.  Issue :  i. 
Mary  '^ ;  ii.  Jessie  "^ ;  iii.  Lula  '^ ;  iv.  Lottie  ^ ;  and  v. 
Jennie"  Higginbotham. 

iv.  Margaret  E.^  Higginbotham,  b.  1850 ;  d.  1858. 

V.  Ella*^  Higginbotham,  b.  1853;  d.  1858. 

vi.  Lucy  Caroline  Higginbotham. 
vii.  Rosalie  Anne  Higginbotham,  d. ;  never  married. 

51.  Patrick  Henry'  Cabell,  born  August  12,  1799; 
graduated  in  medicine,  and  practiced  in  Lynchburg ;  mar- 
ried, February  13,  1826,  Elizabeth  S.  Lee,  daughter  of 
Daniel  Lee,  Esq.,  of  Winchester,  and  sister  of  Judge  George 
K.  Lee,  of  the  Court  of  Appeals  of  Virginia.  He  died  in 
Lynchburg,  June  28,  1838.  His  widow  died  February  4, 
1874.     Issue :  — 

i.  Charles^  Cabell,  b.  March  18,  1827;  served  in 
C.  S.  A. ;  d.  May  18,  1864 ;  unmarried. 

192.  ii.  Henry  L.=^  Cabell. 

193.  iii.  Elizabeth  Lee '  Cabell. 

194.  iv.  Virginia  °  Cabell. 

V.  Ellen  Constance  5  Cabell,  b.  1834;  d.  1852. 
vi.  Cornelia^  Cabell,  b.  1836;  d.  1862. 

195.  vii.  Margaret  Pauline^  Cabell. 

192.  Henry  L.^  Cabell,  born  December  25,  1828 ;  served 
in  the  Mexican  War;  graduated  in  Medical  Department 
of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  1851;  located  in  New 
Market,  Nelson  County,  Va.,  to  practice  his  profession ;  in 
C.  S.  service.    Married,  June  13, 1855,  at  Inglewood,  Nelson 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  319 

County,  Va.,  by  Rev.  F.  D.  Goodwin,  to  Anne  W.  Cabell 
(daughter  of  52).  She  died  December  27,  1872.  He  is 
living  in  Cedarville,  Warren  County,  Va.     Issue  :  — 

i.  Mary  Anne  ^   Cabell,   b.   April,   1856;  d.  September, 

1856. 
ii.  George  W.^  Cabell,  b.  August,   1857 ;  d.  September, 

1858. 
iii.  Henry  Lee  "^  Cabell,  b.  June,  1859 ;  d.  August,  1861. 
iv.  SaUie  J.   L.''  CabeU,    b.   March  23,   1861;  living  at 

Cedarville. 
V.  Charles  Curtius  "^  Cabell,  b.  January  25,  1863 ;  living, 

Winchester, 
vi.  Ellen  Constance^  Cabell,  b.  October  18,  1864;  dead, 
vii.  Samuel  Jordan  ^  Cabell,  b.  August  22,  1867  ;  living  at 

Cedarville. 
viii.  Patrick  Henry  ^  Cabell,  b.  April  12,  1872 ;  d.  August, 
1872. 

193.  Elizabeth  Lee  ^  Cabell,  b.  December  2,  1830 ;  mar- 
ried, June  6,  1855,  at  Winchester,  Robert  Bentley,  Esq., 
of  Loudoun.     He  is  dead.     She  is  living.     Issue  :  — 

i.  Edgar  ^  Bentley,  b.  June  27,  1859. 
ii.  Katherine  Longden^  Bentley,  b.  December  31,  1860; 
m.    Dr.   B.  F.   Noland,   of   Round    Hill,    Loudoun 
County,   Va.,   and   has :   i.   Frank   B.^ ;    ii.  George 
Armistead  ^ ;  iii.  Edgar  Bentley  ^ ;  iv.  Stacy  Taylor^ ; 
and  V.  Elizabeth  Cabell  ^  Noland. 
iii.  Cornelia  °  Bentley,  b.  February  23,  1862. 
iv.  Virginia  Lee  ^  Bentley,  b.  March  2,  1863. 
V.  Robert  D.*^  Bentley  ;  dead, 
vi.  Henry  Cabell^  Bentley,  b.  March  5,  1868. 
vii.  Elizabeth  Lee  ^  Bentley,  b.  February  1,  1870. 
viii.  Mary  Grey*^  Bentley,  b.  November  1,  1871. 
ix.  Sarah  Pleasants*^  Bentley,  b.  January  23,  1875. 

194.  Virginia  ^  Cabell,  born  September  8,  1832 ;  mar- 
ried, March  15,  1860,  at  Winchester,  by  Rev.  C.  Walker, 
to  G.  Smith  Gilkeson.  She  died  November  30,  1862. 
Issue :  — 


320  THE   CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

i.  Henry  Lee  ^  Gilkeson,  b.  February    8,   1861 ;  m.  Car- 
oline Elizabeth  Hiam,  of  Minneapolis,  and  resides  in 
that  city.     Issue  :  i.  Harold  Lee  ^ ;  and  ii.  John  Revel  ^ 
Gillceson. 
ii.  Virginia  C.''  Gilkeson,  b.  November  11,  1862 ;  m.  Alex- 
ander M.  Baker,  of  Winchester,  and  has :  i.  Marion 
Virginia"  Baker. 
195.  Margaret    Pauline^    Cabell,    born  June  11,  1838; 
married,  November    3,  1857,  at  Winchester,  by  Rev.    C. 
Walker,    to    George    Randolph    Page,  of    Clarke    County, 
Va.     She  died  July  23,  1863.     Issue  :  — 
i.  Henry  CabelP  Page,  b.  July  10,  1859;   m.  Elizabeth 
Timberlake,  of   Clarke   County ;  resides  at  IVIilldale. 
Issue  :  i.  Mann  ^ ;  and  ii.  Richard  Lee  ^  Page. 
ii.  Margaret  Pauline  ^  Page,  b.  June  9,  1863 ;  m.  R.  W. 
Hutcheson,    of    Loudoun    County,    Va. ;    resides    at 
Farmwell.    Issue  :  i.  Ellen  Page  ^ ;  and  ii.  John  Page  ^ 
Hutcheson. 


52.  George  Washington '^  Cabell,  born  July  12,  1802  ;  a 
farmer  and  planter ;  married,  February  18,  1829,  at  Lynch- 
burg, Va.,  by  Rev.  F.  G.  Smith,  of  the  Episcopal  Church, 
to  Mary  Anne  Anthony.  He  died  October  2,  1869,  at  his 
seat,  "  Inglewood,"  near  Norwood  post-office.  Nelson  County, 
Va.  His  wife  died  at  the  same  place,  April  28,  1868,  aged 
59  years.  She  was  sister  to  Samuel  (married  Charlotte  L-- 
vine),  to  Margaret  (married  Dr.  Clifford  Cabell),  to  Sarah 
(married  Benjamin  Harrison  Randolph),  and  to  CaroHne 
Anthony,  the  second  wife  of  Mayo  Cabell.  Their  father, 
Christopher  Anthony,  Jr.,  born  December  12,  1776,  died  in 
September,  1835  ;  attorney  at  law  of  Lynchburg,  Va. ;  mar- 
ried, in  1803,  Anna  Woolston  Couch  (born  January,  1786, 
died  December,  1854),  daughter  of  Samuel  Couch  (born 
September  16,  1752  ;  married,  January  3,  1776,  in  the  old 
Swedes'  Church  (Gloria  Dei),  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  to  Ann 
Quigg,  born  October  5,  1754,  in  Mount  Holly,  N.  J.) 
'^  It  is  said  that  Samuel  Couch  owned  and  tiUed  the  land 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREX  321 

on  which  West  Philadelphia  is  located.  He  moved  to  Va. 
about  1777,  buying  several  thousand  acres  o£  land  in 
Goochland  Co.  He  was  a  large  slaveholder,  but  becoming 
a  Quaker,  liberated  his  slaves." 

Christopher  Anthony,  Jr.  (who  with  his  wife  withdrew 
from  the  Quakers  and  joined  the  Episcopal  Church  about 
1829),  was  a  son  of  Christopher  Anthony,  Sr.,  a  Quaker 
preacher  (by  his  second  wife),  born  March  24,  1744,  in 
Louisa  or  Albemarle  County ;  married  (first)  Judith  Moor- 
man, daughter  of  Charles  Moorman  ;  married  (second),  Jan- 
uary 5,  1776,  Mary  Jordan. 

Extracts  from  the  records  of  South  River  Monthly  Meet- 
ing :  — 

"18th.  2  mo.  1769.  Micajah  Terrell  and  Christopher 
Anthony  appointed  to  employ  workmen  to  build  a  new 
Meeting'  house." 

"  6  mo.  1769.  The  new  Meeting  house  reported  finished." 
[The  ruins  of  this  house,  I  believe,  are  still  to  be  seen  on 
the  Salem  turnpike,  about  four  miles  from  Lynchburg.] 

"  19th.  8  mo.  1769.  Christopher  Anthony  was  appointed 
an  elder. 

"  21st.  2  mo.  1778.  Christopher  Anthony,  recorded  a 
minister." 

He  moved  to  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  about  1814,  and  died 
there  October  28,  1815.  He  was  a  son  of  Joseph  Anthony, 
by  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Clark  (sister  to  Edward,  Bowling,  and 
Micajah  Clark,  and  to  the  wives  of  Benjamin  Johnson, 
Thomas  Moorman,  and  Charles  Lynch),  daughter  of  Chris- 
topher (and  Penelope)  Clark,  of  Louisa  County,  who  on 
June  16,  1722,  in  partnership  with  Nicholas  JNIeriwether, 
patented  972  acres  in  Hanover.  From  1722  to  1739  he 
patented  4926  acres  in  his  own  name  in  the  same  county. 
In  his  will  (dated  August  14,  1741)  he  gives  his  son  Bow- 
ling "  my  trooping  arms,  my  Great  Bible  and  all  my  law 
Books."  In  1742,  he  was  one  of  the  first  justices  of  Louisa 
County.  In  the  will  of  Nicholas  Meriwether  (dated  De- 
cember 12, 1743),  he  is  called  "  Captain:'    In  1749,  he  was 


322  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

appointed  "  an  overseer  of  the  meeting  near  the  Sugar  Loaf 
Mountains,"  i.  e.  near  the  present  Grace  Church,  Albemarle 
County,  Va.  His  will  was  recorded  May  28,  1754.  He 
was  not  an  original  Quaker,  but  joined  the  society  between 
1743  and  1749. 

Mrs.  Mary  Jordan  Anthony  (the  mother  of  Christopher 
Anthony,  Jr.),  born  November  16,  1749 ;  died  January  16, 
1838,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  was  a  daughter  of  Samuel  Jor- 
dan, a  Quaker  preacher  of  Suffolk  and  Nansemond  coun- 
ties, Va.  Her  sister,  Margaret  Jordan,  married  William 
Harrison,  of  Charles  City  County,  Va.  These  Jordans  de- 
scended from  Thomas  Jordan  (born  1634 ;  died  February 
22,  1700  (N.  S.),  who  is  said  to  have  been  "  a  grandson  of 
Col.  Samuel  Jordan,  of  Jordan's  Journey,^  by  his  first  wife  ") 
and  his  wife,  Margaret,  of  Nansemond  County,  who  were 
.among  the  earliest  members  of  the  Society  of  Friends  in 
Virginia.  They  left  ten  sons,  at  least  two  of  whom  were 
Quaker  preachers,  and  many  of  their  descendants  have  been 
Quakers.  Thomas  Pleasants,  who  preached  at  the  Cedar 
Creek  Meeting  in  May,  1739,  married  Mary  Jordan ;  John 
Pleasants,  clerk  of  Upper  Meeting,  in  Henrico  County, 
married  Margaret  Jordan ;  Joseph  Pleasants,  uncle  of 
Governor  James  Pleasants,  of  Virginia,  married  Ehzabeth 
Jordan,  etc.,  etc.  Among  the  sons  of  Thomas  Jordan 
(1634-1679),  the  first  Quaker  in  the  family,  were  a  "Mat- 
thew "  and  a  "  Samuel,"  and  it  is  possible  that  Matthew 
and  Col.  Samuel  Jordan,  of  old  Albemarle,  were  of  the 
same  family,  although  they  were  members  of  the  Established 
Church. 
52.  George  W.^  and  Mary  Anne  Cabell  had  issue  :  — 

i.  Sarah  Syme  ^  Cabell,  b.  April  13,  1830  ;  d.  Jan- 
uary 20,  1862,  s.  p. ;  m.,  June  2,  1859,  Jo- 
seph Laidley,  b.  in  Belfast,  Ireland,  October 
15,  1829  ;  a  chemist ;  blown  up  in  Richmond 
during  the  late  war  while  making  powder  for 
the  C.  S.  A. 

^  See  The  Genesis  of  the  United  States,  p.  933. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  323 

ii.  Anne    W.^    b.    November    10,    1831;     d.    De- 
cember 27,    1872;    m.    Dr.  Henry  L.  Cabell 
(192). 
iii.  Margaret    Clifford  ^    b.  February  10,  1835;    d. 

February  15,  1888. 
iv.  Lucy  Brown  ^  Cabell,  b.  May  12,  1836. 
196.     V.  Patrick  Henry  ^Cabell. 

vi.  Samuel  Jordan  ^  Cabell,  b.  December  17,  1840 ; 
d.  January  18,  1845. 
196.  Patrick  Henry  ^  Cabell,  born  October  17,  1837; 
educated  at  Emory  and  Henry  College.  When  the  war 
commenced,  he  was  professor  of  Greek  in  the  Lynchburg 
Military  College ;  entered  the  C.  S.  A.  as  a  private  in  the 
Lynchburg  Home  Guard,  April  24,  1861,  which  cobpany 
was  attached  to  the  11th  Virginia  Regiment.  After  the 
war  he  was  for  a  long  time  the  Superintendent  of  Schools 
of  Nelson  County  ;  is  now  in  the  railroad  service.  He  was 
married  February  25,  1863,  at  Oakland,  by  Rev.  WilHam 
J.  Shipman,  to  Ehzabeth  W.  Eubank,  daughter  of  Royal 
H.  Eubank,  Esq.,  of  Nelson.  They  still  reside  at  the  old 
homestead,  "Inglewood,"  about  three  miles  above  the 
mouth  of  Tye  River,  and  have  issue :  — 

i.  Patrick  Henry  Carey  ^  Cabell,  b.  January  8,  1864 ;  at- 
torney at  law,  Richmond,  Va. 
ii.  Mary  Caroline^  Cabell,  b.  May  18,  1866. 
iii.  Annie "  Cabell,  b.  February  20,  1869. 
iv.  Lucy  Brown  "^  Cabell,  b.  May  16,  1871. 
V.  George  Washington  ^  Cabell,  b.  June  21,  1873. 
vi.  Margaret  Etta  ^  Cabell,  b.  January  3,  1876. 
vii.  Royal  FJ  Cabell,  b.  March  12,  1878. 
viii.  John  ^  Cabell. 
ix.  Somers  ®  Cabell. 


53.  Emeline  S.*  Cabell,  born  in  1804 ;  married  (first) 
December  17,  1829,  in  Lynchburg,  by  Rev.  William  S. 
Reid,  to  Benjamin  E.  Scruggs.  He  died  in  March,  1855, 
s.  p.    His  widow  was  married  (second),  September  2,  1875, 


324  THE   CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

in  Lynchburg,  by  Revs.  W.  T.  Hall  and  T.  W.  Hooper,  to 
the  Rev.  Andrew  Hart,  a  Presbyterian  minister.  He  died 
in  1878,  without  issue  by  her.  His  first  wife,  by  whom 
he  had  issue,  was  a  daughter  of  Dr.  James  M.  Brown. 


11.   COL.  WILLIAM  3  CABELL,  JR.'S  DESCENDANTS. 

54.  Elvira  *  Cabell,  born  September  10,  1783,  was  the 
first  child  born  in  the  present  "  Union  Hill "  house  wlio 
lived  to  marry.  Among  her  tutors  in  music  was  Mr.  John 
C.  Pike,  who  gave  private  lessons  in  many  different  families 
over  the  State.  On  February  9,  1804,  she  was  married  at 
"  Union  Hill "  to  Mr.  Patrick  Henry,  Jr.  He  died  Septem- 
ber 22,  1804;  and  she  married,  secondly,  in  April,  1819, 
at  "Union  Hill,"  Mr.  James  Bruce,  of  "  Woodburn,"  Hali- 
fax County,  Va.,  who  died  in  1837.  She  passed  the  years 
of  her  first  widowhood  at  "  Union  Hill ;  "  of  her  second, 
in  Richmond,  where  she  built  and  occujDied  the  house  on 
Clay  Street  now  known  as  the  University  College  of  Medi- 
cine. She  died  there  on  October  22,  1858.  She  was  one 
of  the  best  and  best-known  women  that  Virginia  has  pro- 
duced. "  Surrounded  by  everything  that  made  life  desir- 
able, her  generous  nature  found  its  chief  dehght  in  con- 
tributing to  the  pleasure  of  others.  She  was  from  early 
life  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church,  and  was  at  one  time 
one  of  the  three  Episcopalians  in  the  county  of  Halifax." 
A  memorial  of  her  exists  in  the  Bruce  Fund,  which  she 
bequeathed  to  the  Episcopal  Church  of  Virginia. 

Her  first  husband,  Patrick  Henry,  Jr.  (born  August  15, 
1783 ;  died  September  22,  1804,  "  a  most  promising  young 
man"),  was  the  eldest  son  of  Patrick  Henry,  the  orator,  by 
his  second  wife,  Dorothea  Dandridge.  His  grandfather. 
Col.  John  Henry,  emigrated  from  Scotland.  About  1743, 
he  bought  a  tract  of  land  on  Tye  River  from  James 
Churchill.  In  February,  1744,  he  entered  for  1000  acres 
of  new  land  adjoining  his  purchase.  The  lands  were  on 
Raccoon  and  Cuffy's  creeks  of  Tye  River,  near  the  Three 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  325 

Ridge  Mountain,  adjoining  the  lands  of  Rev.  Robert  Rose, 
Col.  William  Randolph,  George  Monroe,  and  Drury  Spur- 
lock.  He  became  involved  in  some  pecuniary  difficulties 
and  had  to  give  up  the  land.  I  find  the  following  note 
made  by  Dr.  William  ^  Cabell :  "  Col.  Henry's  sale  in 
Dec,  1762.  Personals  at  C.  H.  and  land  on  the  Premises." 
He  married  Sarah,  widow  of  John  Syme  and  daughter  of 
Isaac  Winston,  the  emigrant,  by  his  wife,  Mary  Dabney. 
The  best  life  of  Patrick  Henry  is  by  his  grandson,  Hon. 
W.  W.  Henry,  of  Richmond,  and  to  that  the  reader  is 
referred  for  additional  particulars. 

The  mother  of  Patrick  Henry,  Jr.,  Dorothea  Dandridge 
(born  September  25,  1757),  was  a  daughter  of  Nathaniel 
West  Dandridge  (by  his  wife,  Dorothea,  daughter  of  Gov- 
ernor Alexander  Spotswood,  who  came  from  Scotland),  who 
was  born  December  7,  1729,  and  died  January  16,  1786 
["  A  candidate  in  1764  for  the  House  of  Burgesses  from 
Hanover,  he  was  defeated  by  Col.  James  Littlepage ;  con- 
tested the  election ;  employed  Patrick  Henry  to  plead  his 
cause ;  in  this  case  Henry  made  his  second  great  speech, 
but  failed  in  unseating  Littlepage "]  ;  was  a  son  of  Col. 
William  Dandridge  (a  citizen  of  tide-water  Virginia,  and 
at  one  time  a  captain  in  the  British  navy),  by  his  wife, 
Unity  West,  a  great-granddaughter  of  John  West,  the 
twelfth  child  of  the  second  Lord  De  la  Warr.  The  West 
family  and  connections  were  especially  prominent  among 
the  founders  of  Virginia.^ 

The  only  child  of   Elvira  Cabell  by  her  first  husband 
was :  — 
197.  i.  Elvira  Ann  ^  Henry. 

Her  second  husband,  James  Bruce,  removed  in  early  life 
to  Halifax  County.  A  glimpse  of  him  as  a  youth  is  to  be 
obtained  in  a  diary  kept  by  an  ancestor  of  Prof.  Richard 
Venable,  of  Baltimore,  during  the  latter  part  of  the  last 
century.  The  writer  of  this  diary  records  the  fact  that  he 
spent  a  night  under  the  same  roof  with  James  Bruce  and 

^See  The  Genesis  of  the  United  States,  pp.  1045,  1047,  etc. 


326  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

Archibald  Alexander  (afterwards  the  distinguished  Presi- 
dent o£  Princeton  College).  He  talks  much  with  the  two 
young  men,  and  predicts  for  both  unusual  success  in  life. 
James  Bruce  was  indeed  eminently  successful  in  all  he  un- 
dertook. Embarking  in  merchandise,  he  finally  owned  many 
stores  in  different  parts  of  Southside  Virginia,  and  by  this 
means,  together  with  the  speculation  in  tobacco  on  a  large 
scale,  he  amassed  a  very  large  fortune.  Yet  his  descendants 
remember  with  pride  that  he  was  not  more  noted  for  great 
wealth  than  for  integrity  and  public  spirit.  He  was  one 
of  the  most  just  and  most  honorable  of  men,  and  added 
to  this  he  had  a  temper  of  such  serenity  that  no  one  ever 
saw  it  ruffled.  A  fine  portrait  of  him  in  his  son's  posses- 
sion represents  a  face  of  great  dignity  and  sweetness.  He 
was  the  eldest  son  of  Charles  Bruce,  a  planter  of  Orange 
County,  Avho  owned  "  Soldier's  Rest,"  a  large  estate  on  the 
Rapidan,  and  who  married,  first,  Diana  Banks,  of  "  Spring 
Bank,"  near  Fredericksburg,  and,  secondly,  Frances,  daugh- 
ter of  Capt.  George  Stubblefield,  of  Spotsylvania  County. 
Charles  Bruce  died  about  the  year  1786.  "  There  has  al- 
ways been  a  tradition  amongst  the  Bruces  that  the  family 
was  descended  from  Edward  Bruce,  of  Kinloss,  Scotland, 
and  that  the  first  emio-rant  to  Virsfinia  came  over  to  take 
charge  of  Governor  Spotswood's  estates,  or,  according  to 
another  account,  of  the  iron  mines  in  which  the  governor 
was  so  much  interested.  It  has  also  been  said  that  he  was 
a  relative  of  Governor  Spotswood's  wife,  but  no  pains  have 
ever  been  taken  to  verify  any  of  the  above-mentioned  tra- 
ditions." 

James  Bruce  married,  first,  in  1799,  Miss  Sally  Coles, 
daughter  of  Col.  Walter  Coles,  of  "  Mildendo,"  in  Halifax 
County,  Va. ;  she  died  in  May,  1806,  leaving  issue,  James 
C.  Bruce  and  others.  He  married,  secondly,  in  April,  1814, 
as  aforesaid,  Mrs.  Elvira  Cabell  Henry,  and  died  in  1837, 
having  had  issue  by  his  second  wife  :  — 

198.  ii.  Ellen  Carter  ^  Bruce. 

199.  iii.  Sarah  ^  Bruce. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  327 

iv.  William  CabelP  Bruce,  b.  October  13,  1824;  d. 
December  8,  1832. 

200.  V.  Charles' Bruce. 

197.  Elvira  Ann  '  Henry  was  born  at  Union  Hill,  three 
months  after  her  father's  death,  on  September  27,  1804 ; 
married  at  Woodburn,  Halifax  County,  Va.,  May  8,  1828, 
to  William  H.  Clark ;  and  died  at  Banister  Lodge,  Halifax 
County,  Va.,  June  24,  1870.  "  She  was  one  of  the  purest 
and  noblest  of  women."  Her  life  was  a  living  witness  to 
the  truth  she  professed,  and  by  her  beautiful  example  of 
Christian  gentleness  and  love  she  "  allured  to  brighter 
worlds  and  led  the  way." 

WilHam  H.  Clark  was  born  in  HaHfax  County,  Va., 
January  23,  1805 ;  educated  at  Hampden  Sidney  College, 
the  University  of  Virginia,  and  at  Cambridge,  Mass. ;  rep- 
resented Halifax  County  in  the  Virginia  legislature;  a 
farmer;  died  at  his  seat.  Banister  Lodge,  October  20, 
1873.  He  was  the  son  of  John  Clark  (a  man  of  influence 
not  only  in  his  own  but  in  surrounding  counties,  a  suc- 
cessful merchant  and  planter),  by  his  second  wife,  Priscilla 
Sims,  of  Halifax.  John  Clark  was  the  son  of  William  Clark, 
of  Prince  Edward  County  (who  through  his  mother  was 
descended  from  the  Worshams),  by  his  wife,  Phoebe  How- 
son,  a  woman  remarkable  both  for  her  strength  of  mind 
and  character.  His  ancestry  was  mostly  if  not  entirely 
English. 

197.  Mrs.  Elvira  A.'  Clark  had  issue  nine :  — 

201.  i.  Elvira  Cabell ''Clark. 

202.  ii.  Ann  Carrington  Clark. 

203.  iii.  John  Clark. 

204.  iv.  Martha  May  Clark. 

V.  Patrick  Henry*'  Clark,  b.  April  21,  1837;  edu- 
cated at  University  of  Virginia,  and  Medical 
College,  Richmond,  Va. ;  M.  D. ;  captain  of 
artillery,  C.  S.  A. ;  d.  in  Richmond,  of  camp 
fever,  July  25,  1862 ;  unmarried 


328  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

vi.  Eliza  Callaway'  Clark,  b.  February   11,    1839; 
m.,  November  5,  1867,  Alfred  W.  Shields,  of 
Richmond,   Va. ;    d.   in   that    city   April    16, 
1876,  s.  p. 
205.    vii.  Ellen  Bruce '  Clark. 

viii.  Rosa^  Clark,  b.  November  1,  1844;  m.,  October 
30,  1866,  William  W.  Wilkins,  of  Brunswick 
County,  Va. ;  d.  September  13,  1867,  s.  p. 
ix.  William  H.«  Clark,  b.  1846 ;  d.  1846. 
201.  Elvira  CabelP  Clark,  born  June  24,  1829;  married 
at  "  Banister  Lodge,"  by  Rev.  John  Grammer,  on  Novem- 
ber 16,  1847,  to  David  A.  Claiborne ;  died  March  8,  1868, 
at  "  Longwood,"  the  residence  of  her  husband,  in  Hahfax 
County,  Va.     "  For  many  years  a  member  of  the  Episcopal 
Church.     In  all  the  relations  of  life  she  was  exemplary  and 
admirable." 

Her  husband,  David  A.  Claiborne,  educated  at  William 
and  Mary  College,  and  University  of  Virginia ;  member 
of  the  House  of  Delegates  from  Hahfax  County ;  captain 
of  infantry  in  C.  S.  A. ;  was  a  son  of  Leonard  Claiborne, 
of  Pittsylvania  County  (by  his  wife,  Letitia  W.,  daughter 
of  Col.  William  Clark),  born  1791;  died  1858;  son  of 
Richard  Henry,  son  of  Richard,  son  of  Leonard,  son  of 
Capt.  Thomas  Claiborne  (1680-1732),  of  "Sweet  Hall" 
(by  his  wife,  Anne  Fox,  1684-1733,  a  great-granddaughter 
of  Gov.  John  West,  one  of  the  founders  of  Virginia),  son  of 
Col.  Thomas  Claiborne  and  grandson  of  Wilham  Claiborne, 
Esq.,  secretary  of  Virginia,  who  was  born  about  1587 ; 
came  to  Virginia  with  Gov.  Wyatt  in  1621,  was  member 
of  the  council,  treasurer  of  Virginia ;  deputy  governor  of 
Virginia,  etc.     He  died  about  1677. 

201.  Mrs.  Elvira  C.^  Claiborne  had  issue  :  — 
i.  David  Augustine  ^  Claiborne,  b.  August  11,  1856 ;  d. 

September  30,  1869. 
ii.  Leonard  '^  Claiborne,  b.  September  7,   1857  ;    went  to 
California ;  m.,  July  28,  1884,  Miss  W.  A.  Kidson, 
at  Pomona,  Cal.,  and  has  :  i.  William  Patrick  Henry  ^, 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     329 

b.  at  Pomona,  Cal.,  July  20,  1885 ;  ii.  D.  A.^  b.  at 
Pomona,  March  31,  1891 ;  d.  same  day ;  iii.  Cabell 
Carrington^  Claiborne,  b.  at  Los  Angeles,  Cal., 
March  12,  1891. 
iii.  Elvira  Patrick  ^  Claiborne,  b.  January  19,  1866 ;  m. 
Philip  Arthur  Sherard  Brine,  of  Canterbury,  Eng- 
land, grandson  of  Dr.  Pusey,  and  (1894)  British  vice- 
consul  at  the  port  of  Richmond.  She  d.  February 
16,  1890,  leaving  issue :  i.  Philip  Edward  Pusey  * , 
b.  February  4,  1887 ;  and  ii.  Rosa  Bruce  ^  Brine,  b. 
April  9,  1888. 
iv.  Nanny  Clark  ^  Claiborne. 

202.  Ann  Carrington  ^  Clark,  born  November  29,  1831 ; 
married  by  Rev.  John  Grammer,  at  Banister  Lodge,  March 
11,  1851,  to  Thomas  Bruce,  eldest  son  of  James  C.  and 
Eliza  D.  Bruce,  of  "Berry  Hill,"  Halifax  County,  Va. 
(James  C.  was  son  of  James  Bruce  by  his  first  wife.)^Sfi)>X*-^ 
Thomas  Bruce  was  educated  at  Columbia  College,  S.  C. ;  ^ 

was  a  vestryman  of  Antrim  Parish,  Halifax  County,  Va. ; 
a  Heutenant  in  the  C.  S.  A. ;  he  died  at  his  residence.  Tar- 
over,  Halifax  County,  Va.,  September  19,  1861,  of  disease 
contracted  in  the  army,  having  had  issue  :  — 
i.  William  Clark  ^  Bruce,  b.  January  16,  1852 ;  d.  July  5, 

1852. 
ii.  Eliza  Wilkins  ^  Bruce,  b.  December  27,  1852 ;  m., 
February  4,  1874,  G.  A.  Davenport,  a  broker,  of 
Richmond,  Va. ;  and  d.  January  20,  1875,  without 
issue, 
iii.  Rosa  ^  Bruce,  b.  January  29,  1854 ;  m.,  June  19,  1872, 
Francis  T.  Anderson,  Jr.,  of  Rockbridge  County,  Va. 
(son  of  Judge  Francis  T.  Anderson,  Supreme  Court 
of  Appeals  of  Virginia),  and  had  issue :  i.  Rosa 
Bruce  ^  b.  March  24,  1873  ;  ii.  Anne  Carrington  ^, 
b.  October  18,  1874 ;  iii.  Mary  Aylette  ^  b.  August 
13,  1876;  iv.  Francis  Thomas  ^  b.  March  20,  1878; 
V.  Eliza  Wilkins  Bruce^  b.  June  20,  1880;  vi.  Thomas 
Bruce  ^,  b.  January  11,  1881 ;  vii.  William  Andrew  ^, 


330  THE   CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

b.  January  24,  1884 ;  viii.  Isabelle  Graeme  ^,  b.  Jan- 
uary 11, 1887  ;  ix.  Dorothea  Spottswood^  Anderson, 
b.  April  12,  1889  ;  d.  June  26,  1889. 

iv.  Thomas  ^  Bruce,  b.  March  1,  1856 ;  m.,  November  13, 
1879,  Emma  Louisa  Howard,  of  Richmond,  Va.  He 
is  a  lawyer,  lives  at  the  homestead,  "  Tarover,"  in 
Halifax  County,  Va.,  and  has  an  only  child :  i.  Emma 
Gildersleeve  ^  Bruce,  b.  September  25,  1880. 

V.  James  Coles  ^  Bruce,  b.  July  29,  1857  ;  m.,  January  16, 
1878,  Susan  Seddon  Brooks,  of  Richmond,  Va.  He 
is  a  planter  and  farmer,  living  at  Long  Island,  Camp- 
bell County,  Va.,  an  estate  purchased  by  Patrick 
Henry,  the  orator,  and  left  by  him  to  his  son,  Patrick 
Henry,  Jr.  His  children  are :  i.  Marion  Roy  ^,  b. 
April  7,  1879;  d.  July  23,  1879;  ii.  Patrick  Henry «, 
b.  March  21,  1881 ;  iii.  James  C.^  b.  July  8,  1882 ; 
d.  July  19,  1883  ;  iv.  Mary  Louisa  ^  Bruce,  b.  July 
29,  1884. 

203.  John '  Clark,  born  April  30,  1833  ;  educated  at  the 
Virginia  MiHtary  Institute  and  the  University  of  Virginia ; 
was  an  officer  in  the  C.  S.  A. ;  now  a  farmer  of  Hahfax 
County,  Va. ;  married  by  Rev.  John  Grammer,  November 
4,  1857,  to  Betty  Sims  Coleman,  daughter  of  Dr.  E.  A. 
Coleman,  of  Halifax  County,  Va. ;  his  children  are  :  — 

i.  Elvira   Ann^  Clark,   b.   February   10,   1859;   m.   Mr. 
Robert    Nelson,    and    has :    i.    Elizabeth    Sims  ^,    b. 
March  26,  1886 ;  ii.  Virginia  Lafayette  ^,  b.  October 
26,  1887;  iii.  Ellie  Clark  ^  b.  September  10,  1889 ; 
iv.  Robert  WAM^m^  Nelson,  b.  April  13,  1894. 
ii.  Maria  Wilson^  Clark,  b.  May  17,  1860. 
iii.  Mary  Bailey"  Clark,  b.  September  8,  1861;  d.  young, 
iv.  John^  Clark,  b.  February  25,  1867. 
V.  Angehna  Johns  ^  Clark,  b.  March  28,  1869. 
vi.  Phcebe  Howson^  Clark,  b.  Feb.  10,  1871. 
vii.  Ethelberta  Coleman "'  Clark,  b.  October  9,  1874. 

204.  Martha  May '  Clark,  born  August  23,  1834 ;  mar- 
ried at  "  Banister  Lodge,"  by  Rev.  John  Grammer,  Novem- 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  331 

ber    12,    1856,    to   J.   Lyle    Clarke,   of   "Warner    HaU," 
Gloucester  County,  Va.,  where  she  died  January  29,  1867. 
J.  Lyle  Clarke  was  a  lieutenant-colonel  in  C.  S.  A. ;  son  of 
Colin  Clarke.^     Issue  :  — 
i.  Mary  Lyle^  Clarke,  b.  September  9,  1857. 

205.  Ellen  Bruce  *^  Clark,  born  February  19,  1841;  mar- 
ried by  Rev.  John  T.  Clark,  on  November  11,  1862,  to 
George  Lee,^  of  Richmond,  Va.,  and  had  issue  :  — 

i.  Arthur"  Lee. 

ii.  Ellen  Bruce  ^  Lee  ;  d.  young, 
iii.  William  Henry  Clark  ^  Lee. 
iv.  George  Kendall^  Lee. 

198.  Ellen  Carter  ^  Bruce,  born  August  15,  1820 ;  mar- 
ried, September  13,  1843,  James  M.  Morson,  of  Fredericks- 
burg, Va. ;  died  in  February,  1862,  in  St.  James  Parish, 
La.  "  The  life  of  Ellen  Morson  was  followed  by  love, 
esteem,  and  reverence.  Gifted  with  wealth,  position,  and 
beauty  from  youth  onward,  she  disarmed  envy  and  won 
admiration  by  the  disinterestedness,  modest  graces,  and 
considerate  kindness  of  her  character."  Her  husband, 
James  Marion  Morson  (born  in  1817 ;  educated  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Virginia ;  died  December  30,  1868),  was  the  son 
of  Alexander  Morson  by  his  wife,  Anne  Casson  Alexander, 
eldest  daughter  of  William  Alexander,  of  "  Snowden." 
Alexander  Morson  was  the  son  of  Arthur  Morson,  born  at 
Greenock,  Scotland,  January  3,  1734 ;  died  at  "  Hartwood," 
Stafford  County,  Va.,  May  23,  1798.' 

Mrs.  Ellen  C.^  Morson  had  issue  :  — 

i.  Ellen  Bruce  ^  Morson,  b.  November  10,  1845 ;  m., 
December  21,  1869,  Octave  Jacob,  a  planter  of 
Louisiana.  Issue  :  i.  Octave  ^ ;  ii.  James  Morson  ^ ; 
iii.  Celeste^;  and  iv.  Charles  B.^  Jacob. 

ii.  James  Bruce  ^  Morson,  b.  August  12,  1847  ;  m.,  July 

^  See  Goocle's  Virginia  Cousins,  No.  763. 

^  See  Lee  of  Virginia,  p.  553. 

*  See  Hayden's  Virginia  Genealogies,  p.  654. 


332  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

20,  1873,  Claudia  Marshall,  of  Louisville,  Ky.  Is- 
sue:  i.  Sarah ^,  d.  young;  ii.  Claudia ^  d.  young; 
iii.  Thomas  Seddon"^  Morson,  the  only  surviving 
child  (1894). 

iii.  Marion  '^  Morson,  b.  April  13,  1849 ;  m.,  November  4, 
1874,  Henry  Wise  Garnett,  attorney  at  law,  of 
Washington,  D.  C,  and  d.  in  1888,  leaving  four 
children  :  i.  Maria '  ;  ii.  Ellen  Bruce  ^ ;  iii.  A.  Y. 
P." ;  and  iv.  Henry  W.'^  Garnett,  Jr. 

iv.  Charles  Bruce  ^  Morson,  b.  November  19,  1850 ;  d.  in 
early  youth. 

V.  Ahce  ^  Morson,  b.  November  20,  1852 ;  m. Leigh 

Robinson,  Esq.,  attorney  at  law,  Washington,  D.  C. 

vi.  Seddon  '^  Morson,  b.  November  26,  1854 ;  d.  in  early 
manhood  ;  unmarried. 

vii.  Frank  ^  Morson,  b.  March  3,  1857 ;  d.  infant, 
viii.  Ann  ^  Morson,  b.  February  17,   1859 ;  m.  Wyndham 
R.   Meredith,  Esq.,  attorney  at  law,  of  Richmond, 
Va.      Issue  :    i.  John  Alexander  ^  Meredith,  b.   in 
November,  1894. 

199.  Sarah'  Bruce,  born  March  22,  1822;  married, 
December  23,  1845,  Hon.  James  A.  Seddon,  of  Richmond, 
Va.,  in  St.  Paul's  Church,  being  the  first  marriage  solemnized 
in  that  historic  house  of  worship.  They  continued  to  hve  in 
Richmond  until  a  few  years  before  the  late  war,  when  they 
removed  to  "  Sabot  Hill,"  their  country  seat  in  Goochland 
County,  Va.  Mrs.  Sarah  Bruce  Seddon  died  in  Philadel- 
phia, March  28,  1882.  She  was  one  of  the  most  admirable 
and  brilliant  women  of  her  day.  In  young  womanhood, 
her  sister  and  herself  were  among^  the  most  noted  belles 
and  beauties  of  the  Old  Dominion.  "  In  mature  years,  in 
all  the  offices  of  wife,  mother,  friend,  and  mistress,  she 
assured  esteem,  and  riveted  affection  by  purity,  benignity, 
and  rare  singleness  of  heart  in  all  the  ministrations  and 
duties  of  life."  Her  husband,  the  Hon.  James  Alexander 
Seddon,  was  born  in  Fredericksburg,  Va.,  July  3,  1815; 


MRS.    SARAH    BRUCE   SEDDON 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     333 

educated  at  tlie  University  of  Virginia ;  B.  L.  iu  1835 ;  at 
once  began  the  practice  of  the  law.  In  1840,  he  moved  to 
Richmond,  at  once  entered  upon  a  lucrative  practice,  and 
became  well  known  and  universally  popular.  In  1844,  he 
was  elected  as  a  Democrat  to  represent  the  Richmond  dis- 
trict in  Congress,  March  4,  1845,  to  March  4,  1847.  In 
1846,  he  declined  a  renomination,  and  the  Democrats  lost 
the  district.  In  1848,  he  was  unanimously  nominated  and 
triumphantly  elected,  serving  March  4,  1849,  to  March 
4,  1851.  In  1850,  he  again  peremptorily  declined  to  run 
for  Congress,  as  all  of  his  time  was  required  for  the  projjer 
management  of  his  large  estate  acquired  by  inheritance, 
marriage,  and  accumulation.  Some  time  after  1851,  he 
removed  to  his  seat  in  Goochland  County,  Va.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  peace  commission,  which  met  in  Washing- 
ton, February  4,  1861.  On  July  20,  1861,  he  was  elected 
a  member  of  the  Virginia  Delegation  to  the  first  Confed- 
erate Congress,  which  assembled  in  Montgomery,  Ala.  On 
November  18,  1862,  he  was  appointed  secretary  of  war  of 
the  Confederate  States,  and  continued  in  this  office  until 
the  winter  of  1864-1865,  when  he  resigned  and  was  suc- 
ceeded by  the  Hon.  John  C.  Breckinridge.  ^*  From  this 
time  Mr.  Seddon  did  not  again  appear  in  public  life.  He, 
however,  lost  none  of  his  interest  in  affairs  of  state,  and  to 
his  latest  hour  was  loyal  to  Virginia,  jealous  of  her  honour, 
and  the  defender  of  all  that  was  bright  and  glorious  in  her 
history."  He  died  at  "  Sabot  Hill,"  August  19,  1880,  and 
was  buried  in  Hollywood  Cemetery,  near  Richmond,  Va. 
He  was  the  son  of  Thomas  Seddon,  of  Stafford  County, 
afterwards  of  Fredericksburg,  Va.  (who  died  October  6, 
1831,  aged  55),  by  his  wife,  Susan  Pearson  Alexander,  who 
died  in  1845.  He  descended  from  Thomas  Seddon,  Sr. 
(born  November  25,  1696 ;  died  July  Court,  1779),  who 
emigrated  to  Virginia  from  Lancashire,  England,  early  in 
the  eighteenth  century.  Susan  Pearson  Alexander  (sister 
to  Anne  Casson  Alexander,  who  married  Alexander  Mor- 
son,  of  "  Hollywood,"  Stafford  County)  was  the  daughter 


334  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

of  William  Alexander  (1758-1803)  by  his  wife,  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Sarah  (Bruce,  born  about  1760 ; 
died  1814  or  1815)  Casson.  WiUiam  Alexander  (1758- 
1803)  was  the  son  of  John  (1711-1763),  the  son  of  Robert 
(1688-1735),  the  son  of  John  Alexander,  who  emigrated 
to  Virginia  about  1659 ;  settled  in  Stafford,  1660 ;  pur- 
chased Howison's  patent  of  land,  extending  from  George- 
town to  Hunting  Creek,  on  the  Virginia  side  of  the  Poto- 
mac ;  and  died  in  1677.  He  is  said  to  have  been  of  the 
same  family  as  the  Earl  of  Stirling. 

199.  Mrs.  Sarah  ^  Bruce  Seddon  had  issue  nine  :  — 

i.  Elvira   Bruce  ^  Seddon,   b.    September  21,    1846 ;  d. 

June  24,  1882  ;  unmarried, 
ii.  Thomas  ^  Seddon,  b.  July  4,  1848 ;  educated  at  Uni- 
versity of  Virginia ;  is  president  of  the  Sloss  Iron 
Co.,  of  Birmingham,  Ala. ;  unmarried, 
iii.  James  Alexander  ^  Seddon,  b.  March  9,  1850 ;  M.  A., 
University  of  Virginia,  1870 ;  lawyer  and  judge ; 
resides  in  St.  Louis;  m.,  in  1889,  Louisa  Q.  Scott 
(a  descendant  of  Gen.  Quarles  of  the  Revolution). 
She  d.  in  1894,  leaving  two  sons  :  i.  Bruce  ^ ;  and  ii. 
Scott  ^  Seddon. 
iv.  William  Cabell  ^  Seddon,  b.  June  3,  1851 ;  m.,  October 
6,  1875,  Kate  L.  Slawson,  of  New  York.     She  d. 
in    1887,  leaving  one  child :  i.  Sarah  Bruce '  Sed- 
don. 
V.  Anna  Park  ^  Seddon,  b.  November  24,  1852 ;  d.  No- 
vember 29,  1863. 
vi.  Arthur  Morson  ^  Seddon,  b.  November  2,  1854 ;  edu- 
cated at  the  University  of  Virginia ;  m.,  in  1883, 
Josephine,  daughter  of  Samuel  W.   Venable,  Esq., 
of    Petersburg.      Issue:    i.  James    Alexander^,    d. 
September  5,  1894;  ii.  Samuel  Venable';  and  iii. 
Kate'^  Seddon. 
vii.  Sarah  Bruce  ^  Seddon,  b.  May  5,  1856 ;  d.  January  11, 

1873. 
viii.  Rosalie^  Seddon,  b.  January  27,  1858;  m.,  October 


HON.   JAMES   ALEXANDER   SEDDON 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREX  335 

16,  1878,  by  Rev.  Peter  Boyden,  at  "  Sabot  Hill," 
to  A.  Hawksley  Rutherfoord,  Jr.,  son  of  A.  H. 
Rutlierfoord,  Sr.,  Esq.,  of  Amelia.  Issue :  i. 
Ellen  Bruce  ^ ;  ii.  Alexander  Hawksley  ^ ;  iii.  Anne 
Clark';  and  iv.  Rosalie  Seddon'  Rutherfoord. 
ix.  Charles  Bruce^  Seddon,  b.  December  26,  1859;  d. 
October  29,  1866. 

200.  Charles^  Bruce,  born  August  7,  1826;  educated 
at  University  of  North  Carolina,  "  Chapell  Hill ;  "  visited 
Europe,  1848 ;  married,  September  19,  1848,  Sarah  Alex- 
ander Seddon,  sister  of  the  Hon.  James  A.  Seddon ;  rep- 
resented for  several  sessions  the  Charlotte  District  in  the 
Virginia  Senate,  and  Charlotte  County  in  the  Virginia 
Convention  of  1861 ;  raised  an  artillery  company  for  the 
Confederate  service  (named  for  his  home,  "  The  Staunton 
Hill  Artillery") ;  equipped  it  at  his  own  expense;  went  into 
service  as  its  captain,  and  in  that  capacity  did  Confederate 
duty  in  Virginia,  North  Carolina,  and  Georgia.  He  is  now 
a  planter  and  farmer.  His  wife  and  himself  are  living 
at  his  home,  "  Staunton  Hill,"  in  Charlotte  County,  Va. 
Issue  ten :  — 

206.  i.  Thomas  Seddon  ^  Bruce. 

207.  ii.  Albert  Carson  Bruce. 

iii.  Marion  ^  Bruce,  b.  February  8,  1852 ;  d.  August 
17,  1852. 

iv.  Charles  Morelle  ^  Bruce,  b.  July  6,  1853 ;  secre- 

retary  of  Arizona  Territory  in  1894. 
V.  James  Roy^  Bruce,  b.  1854;  d.  1855. 

vi.  Philip  Alexander  ^  Bruce,  b.  March  7,  1856 ;  sec- 
retary of  Virginia  Historical  Society,  and  editor 
of  its  magazine,  1894 ;  author  of  "  The  Plan- 
tation Negro  as  a  Freedman,"  etc. 

208.  vii.  Ellen  Carter  ^  Bruce. 

209.  viii.  William  Cabell '  Bruce. 

ix.  James  Douglas  ^  Bruce,  b.  December  9,  1862  ; 
associate  professor  of  Anglo-Saxon  and  Middle 
English  at  Bryn  Mawr  College,  Pennsylvania. 


336  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

210.     X.  Anne  Seddon  Bruce. 

206.  Thomas  Seddon*'  Bruce,  born  July  23,  1849  ;  mar- 
ried, April  7,  1875,  Mary  B.  Anderson,  daughter  of  Gen. 
Josejjh  R.  Anderson,  of  Richmond,  Va.  [He  was  born 
February  6,  1813,  at  "  Walnut  Hill,"  in  Botetourt  County, 
Va.;  at  West  Point,  1832-1836;  lieutenant  U.  S.  A., 
1836-1837 ;  married,  in  1837,  Sally,  daughter  of  Dr.  Rob- 
ert Archer,  U.  S.  A. ;  resigned  from  the  army  soon  after 
marriage ;  assistant  engineer  of  Virginia  ;  brigadier-general 
C.  S.  A.,  1861-1862 ;  in  charge  of  the  Tredegar  Works 
for  the  Confederate  States,  1862-1865,  remained  president 
of  these  works  nearly  30  years ;  was  member  of  the  House 
of  Delegates  from  Richmond  several  sessions,  etc.  He  died 
in  1892.  Son  of  William  Anderson  (by  his  wife,  Anna 
Thomas,  of  Frederick,  Md.),  a  soldier  of  the  Revolution 
and  of  the  War  of  1812,  from  Botetourt  County,  Va. ;  son 
of  Robert  Anderson,  who  emigrated  from  County  Down, 
Ireland,  in  1756,  settling  first  in  Delaware  and  afterwards 
in  Botetourt  County,  Va.]  Issue:  i.  Sarah  Archer^;  ii. 
Charles ;  iii.  Joseph  Reid  Anderson ;  iv.  Seddon ;  v.  Kath- 
leen Elizabeth  ;  and  vi.  Reginald  Bruce. 

207.  Albert  Carson  ^  Bruce,  born  August  9,  1850 ;  mar- 
ried, November  17,  1874,  Mary  E.  Howard,  daughter  of 
Philip  Francis  Howard,  of  Richmond,  Va.  (by  his  wife, 
Eloise  Frances  Burfoot),  son  of  Thomas  Calthorpe  Howard 
(by  his  wife,  Katharine  E.  Poj)e,  daughter  of  Nathaniel 
Pope  and  his  wife,  Mary  Duval),  son  of  William  Howard  (by 
his  wife,  Anne  Chisman),  son  of  Henry  Howard  (by  his 
wife,  Frances  Calthorpe),  born  November  28,  1727 ;  son  of 
Col.  Francis  Howard,  born  May  15,  1700,  burgess,  etc. ;  son 
of  Henry,  born  September,  1679 ;  son  of  Henry,  born  Octo- 
ber 16,  1651 ;  son  of  John,  the  son  of  Matthew  Howard, 
the  first  settler.  Some  of  his  descendants  claim  that  he  was 
of  the  duke  of  Norfolk's  family. 

207.  Albert  Carson  ^  Bruce  and  his  wife  have  had  issue : 
i.  Sara  Seddon  ^ ;  ii.  Ella  Burfoot ;  iii.  Howard ;  iv.  Charles 
Cabell ;  v.  Albert  Cabell ;  and  vi.  Burfoot  Bruce. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  337 

208.  Ellen  Carter  ^  Bruce,  born  January  29, 1858 ;  histo- 
rian of  the  Old  Dominion  Chapter  of  the  Virginia  Society 
of  the  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution ;  married,  in 
1881,  James  Bowen  Baylor,  son  of  Dr.  John  Roy  Baylor, 
son  of  John  Baylor  (by  his  wife,  Maria  Roy),  son  of  John 
Baylor,  born  September  4, 1750,  at  "  New  Market,"  Caroline 
County,  Va. ;  at  Putney  Grammar  School  in  1763,  then  at 
Caius  and  Granville  College  ;  married,  November  18,  1778, 
in  the  parish  church,  St.  Olave's,  Hart  Street,  London,  liis 
cousin  Frances,  daughter  of  John  and  Courtenay  Norton,  of 
Yorktown,  Ya.  He  was  a  son  of  John  Baylor,  born  May 
12,  1705,  in  Gloucester  County,  Ya. ;  patented  lands  in 
King  and  Queen  (now  Caroline)  in  1725 ;  removed  there ; 
built  "  New  Market ;  "  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses, 
1740-1760 ;  married,  January  2,  1744,  at  Yorktown,  Ya., 
Frances  Walker,  daughter  of  John  Walker,  of  Mill  Creek, 
near  Back  River ;  county  lieutenant  of  Orange,  1752,  etc. 
He  was  a  son  of  John  Baylor,  born  at  Tiverton,  England,  in 
1650 ;  came  to  Virginia  about  1676  ;  settled  in  Gloucester 
County ;  had  trading-houses  in  New  Kent,  King  and  Queen, 
King  William,  etc. ;  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  in 
1718;  will  dated  September  11,  1720;  died  about  1722. 
"  He  married  a  widow  whose  maiden  name  was  Lucy  Todd, 
from  the  neighborhood  of  Todd's  warehouse,  now  Dunkirk." 

208.  Mrs.  Ellen  Carter  ^  Bruce  Baylor  had  issue :  i.  Sarah 
Evelyn  ^ ;  ii.  Anne  Courtenay  ;  and  iii.  John  Baylor. 

209.  William  CabeU^  Bruce,  born  March  12,  1860; 
attorney  at  law  of  the  firm  Fisher,  Bruce  &  Fisher,  Balti- 
more, Md. ;  at  present  (1894)  a  member  of  the  Maryland 
Senate  from  the  city  of  Baltimore ;  married,  in  October, 
1887,  Louise  Este  Fisher,  only  daughter  of  ex-Judge  Wil- 
liam A.  Fisher,  of  Baltimore,  by  his  wife,  Louise  Este, 
daughter  of  Judge  David  Kirkpatrick  Este  (by  his  wife, 
Louise  Miller,  of  Louisiana),  one  of  the  early  emigrants  to 
Ohio,  judge  of  one  of  its  superior  courts,  etc. 

Ex- Judge  William  A.  Fisher  was  a  graduate  at  Princeton 
in  1855,  and  a  distinguished  lawyer  of  Baltimore ;  he  was 


338  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

the  son  of  William  Fisher  (by  his  first  wife,  Jane  AMcks 
Boggs,  a  descendant  of  Peter  Alricks,  the  Dutch  deputy- 
governor  of  the  colonies  on  the  west  side  of  the  Delaware), 
a  prominent  banker  of  Baltimore,  who  died  in  1867 ;  the 
family  being  of  English  descent. 

209.  William  C.^  Bruce  and  his  wife  have  issue :  i.  Wil- 
Ham  Fisher " ;  and  ii.  James  Bruce. 

210.  Anne  Seddon^  Bruce,  born  at  "Staunton  Hill," 
June  29,  1867.  Surrounded  by  cultivation  and  refinement, 
in  the  stimulating  atmosphere  of  one  of  the  best  libraries 
in  Virginia,  she  early  developed  the  hterary  taste  of  her 
family.  Her  commonplace-books,  begun  when  she  was  a 
mere  child,  and  always  kept  up,  show  an  extraordinarily 
extensive  and  diversified  reading,  and  give  proof  of  a 
remarkable  taste  and  judgment.  And  as  she  was  also 
favored  with  decided  talent  for  drawing  and  music, — which 
arts  were  dihgently  cultivated  under  the  best  masters,  —  she 
became  a  highly  educated  and  accomphshed  woman  at  an 
unusually  early  age ;  combining  with  her  rare  intellectual 
and  artistic  gifts  a  person  of  great  beauty,  a  gracious  pres- 
ence, great  strength  of  character,  charming  manners,  with  a 
sweet  and  sunny  nature. 

On  July  28,  1886,  she  was  married  in  the  library  at  her 
old  home  to  Thomas  Nelson  Page,  who  was  then  practicing 
law  in  Richmond,  Va.,  and  was  just  beginning  to  be  known 
as  a  writer. 

In  her  husband's  home  her  personal  position  was  at  once 
estabhshed.  She  immediately  took  a  leading  place  in  the 
city,  as  well  in  matters  charitable  as  social.  "  We  like  to 
come  the  days  that  you  are  here,"  said  a  poor  woman  to 
her  at  a  charitable  institution. 

Her  influence  on  her  husband's  literary  work  was  appar- 
ent. He  has  recorded  that  she  was  his  chief  inspiration, 
and  that  he  became  a  writer  for  her. 

She  died  suddenly  in  Richmond,  on  December  22, 1888. 
The  early  ending  of  her  beautiful  life  caused  a  universal 
mourning  in  the  city,  and  a  general  expression  of  sorrow 


MRS.   ANNE   SEDDON    BRUCE   PAGE 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  339 

throughout  the  country,  while  to  her  family  it  was  a  shock 
from  which  they  will  never  recover. 

A  fine  window  in  the  Church  of  the  Holy  Trinity,  in 
Richmond,  representing  "The  King's  Daughter  Giving 
Bread  to  the  Poor,"  was  erected  by  her  husband  as  a 
memorial  to  her. 

Thomas  Nelson  Page,  now  a  resident  of  Washington, 
D.  C,  is  a  son  of  Mr.  John  Page,  of  Hanover  (a  grandson 
of  Gov.  John  Page  and  of  Gov.  Thomas  Nelson),  by  his 
wife,  Elizabeth  B.  Nelson,  a  granddaughter  of  Gov.  Thomas 
Nelson,  and  of  Col.  Hugh  Nelson  by  his  wife,  Judith 
Page,  daughter  of  Hon.  John  Page  and  his  wife,  Jane 
Byrd.  See  "  The  Page  Family  in  Virginia,"  by  Dr.  R.  C. 
M.  Page,  and  under  No.  70  in  this  volume. 


55.  Margaret*  Cabell,  born  at  "Union  Hill,"  November 
24,  1785 ;  married,  at  the  same  place,  by  Rev.  Charles 
Crawford,  September  16,  1803,  to  Thomas  S.  McClelland. 
She  died  at  Montezuma,  April  3,  1863,  "  leaving  a  large 
number  of  relatives  to  mourn  her  loss."  Her  husband, 
Thomas  Stanhope  McClelland,  was  born  near  Gettysburg, 
Pa.,  on  February  4,  1777 ;  graduated  at  Dickinson  College, 
Carlisle,  Pa.,  in  1795,  where  he  was  a  classmate  of  Chief 
Justice  Taney.  There  is  a  tradition  that  his  father  in- 
tended him  for  the  Presbyterian  ministry ;  but  he  preferred 
Blackstone  to  Calvin,  and  thereby  incurring  his  father's 
displeasure,  he  joined  his  elder  brother  John  in  Virginia ; 
read  law  under  Judge  Archibald  Stuart,  in  Staunton,  and 
was  admitted  to  practice  in  the  courts  of  the  commonwealth 
April  12,  1799.  Judge  Stuart  had  become  much  attached 
to  him,  and  he  ascribed  his  success  as  a  lawyer  to  the  early 
kindness  and  assistance  of  that  judge. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Virginia  House  of  Delegates, 
1801-1802,  and  probably  the  spring  session,  1803.  After 
his  marriage,  in  1803,  he  resided  for  a  time  at  "  Union 
Hill."  In  April,  1804,  he  removed  to  Lynchburg,  arriving 
there  "  about  2  o'clock  on  the  evening  of  the  9th."     On 


340  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

June  20,  1805,  he  wrote  to  Col.  William  Cabell,  his  father- 
in-law :  "  Having  Kved  here  now  better  than  one  year,  I 
consider  Lynchburg  an  excellent  stand,  and  I  do  not  wish 
to  leave  its  neighborhood  so  long  as  I  continue  the  prac- 
tice of  law."  "  I  desire  to  dispose  of  the  land  you  gave  us 
in  Amherst  [this  land  was  originally  purchased  by  Col. 
William  Cabell,  the  elder,  from  the  Hon.  Carter  Braxton, 
the  signer],  and  purchase  an  excellent  small  plantation  of 
about  357  acres,  more  conveniently  situated,  within  two 
miles  of  this  place,  price  £5  per  acre.  But  we  will  not 
make  any  important  change  without  your  advice." 

He  practiced  in  the  courts  of  Amherst,  Campbell,  Frank- 
lin, etc.  From  1805,  for  several  years,  he  was  one  of  the 
lawyers  employed  in  settling  the  estate  of  Patrick  Henry,  the 
orator.  I  have  a  legal  opinion  of  his  in  this  case,  written 
January  4,  1806.  At  the  first  teiin  of  the  first  Nelson 
County  Court,  June  27, 1808,  he  qualified  as  an  attorney  in 
that  court.  He  bought  the  Montezuma  estate,  in  Nelson 
County,  from  the  executors,  some  time  after  the  death  of 
Hector  Cabell ;  in  1813,  he  sold  out  his  interests  in  Lynch- 
burg, and  late  in  that  year,  or  early  in  1814,  he  removed  to 
that  estate,  where  he  continued  to  reside  the  remainder  of 
his  hfe. 

In  the  autumn  of  1824,  he  was  chairman  of  the  patriotic 
meeting  of  the  citizens  of  Nelson  which  passed  resolutions 
eulogistic  of  the  Marquis  De  Lafayette.  Appointed  a  com- 
mittee (Maj.  Alexander  Brown  and  other  mihtia  of&cers)  to 
have  an  interview  with  him  on  his  arrival  at  Monticello, 
"  and  ascertain  whether  it  will  comport  with  his  convenience 
to  pass  through  the  county  of  Nelson ;  and,  in  the  event  he 
can  do  so,  these  gentlemen  are  requested  to  embody  their 
respective  corps  of  militia,  to  receive  him  at  the  county 
line,"  etc. 

'' Resolved,  That  the  people  of  Nelson"  approve  the 
recent  resolutions  of  their  fellow-citizens  in  Albemarle,  Flu- 
vanna, and  Goochland,  and  desire  their  representatives  in 
the  state  legislature  to  "  use  their   endeavors  to  procure 


HON.  THOMAS   STANHOPE   McCLELLAND 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GKANDCHILDREN  341 

from  the  Treasury  of  the  State  such  a  donation  in  money  to 
Genl  La  Fayette  as  the  Legislature,  in  its  wisdom,  may 
deem  consistent  with  the  resources,  honor,  and  dignity  of 
Virginia."  And  that  their  national  representatives  should 
"  use  their  best  endeavors  to  procure  from  the  Congress  of 
the  United  States  such  grant  of  land  and  money  to  Genl 
La  Fayette  as,  in  their  wisdom,  may  comport  with  the 
honor  and  magnanimity  of  the  nation." 

The  Hon.  Thomas  S.  McClelland  continued  to  practice 
law  in  this  section  until  1825,  when  from  ill-health  he  vir- 
tually retired. 

Letters  to  him  from  William  Wirt,  the  Carrs,  Henry 
Clay,  and  other  pubhc  men  of  his  day,  show  with  what 
esteem  and  consideration  he  was  regarded  by  his  peers.  In 
politics  he  was  a  Whig.  Being  at  the  White  Sulphur 
Springs  with  Clay,  the  great  commoner  sought  an  introduc- 
tion to  him,  and  they  became  warm  friends.  Living,  as  he 
did,  in  the  land  of  Jefferson  (so  to  speak),  almost  under  the 
shadow  of  Monticello,  his  uncompromising  adherence  to  his 
Whig  principles  was  a  source  of  regret  to  many  of  his 
friends  and  admirers,  and  a  permanent  bar  to  anything  like 
political  preferment  in  his  section.  Nearly  all  of  his  wife's 
relations  were  followers  of  Mr.  Jefferson.  In  1826,  he  was 
nominated  by  the  Whigs  as  their  candidate  for  the  legisla- 
ture, but  he  was  defeated.  He  was  then  in  bad  health.  He 
died  at  his  seat,  Montezuma,  August  30,  1835.  He  was  a 
man  of  fine  intellect,  and  was  regarded  as  one  of  the  best 
lawyers  in  this  part  of  the  State.  Professionally  and  per- 
sonally, he  was  a  man  of  the  highest  character. 

He  was  the  third  son  of  Thomas  McClelland  (McClellan, 
McCleland,  McLelan,  etc.)  by  his  wife,  Mary,  whose  maiden 
name  is  said  to  have  been  Stanhope.  "  They  came  to  this 
country  about  the  middle  of  the  last  century,  from  the 
north  of  Ireland,  and  settled  in  Pennsylvania,  near  Gettys- 
burg. He  died  in  1800,  on  his  farm  near  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 
where  he  had  moved  a  few  years  previous ;  a  true  type  of 
the  sturdy  Scotch-Irish  immigrant." 


342  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

There  are  letters  extant  of  the  Hon.  Thomas  S.  McClel- 
land, in  which  mention  is  made  of  visits  to  his  Philadelphia 
cousin,  Dr.  George  McClellan,  the  father  of  Gen.  George 
B.  McClellan. 

55.  Maro-aret^  Cabell  and  Hon.  Thomas  S.  McClelland 
had  issue  fourteen  :  — 

i.  William  CabelP  McClelland,  b.  1804;  d.  1805. 
ii.  Anna  Maria  ^  McClelland,  b.  April  16, 1806  ;  m., 
October  13,  1842,  Col.  Bryan  W.  Nowlin,  of 
"Oak  Hill,"   Campbell  County,  Va.      He  d. 
October  30,  1847,  and  his  wife  and  only  child, 
Margaret  Cabell  ^  Nowlin,  survived  him  only  a 
few  weeks. 
Elvira  Henry  ^  McClelland. 
Thomas  Stanhope  ^  McClelland. 
WilHam  CabelP  McClelland,  b.  1812;  d.  1813. 
Laura  ^  McClelland. 

John  Milton  McClelland,  b.  1816 ;  d.  1835. 
EUen  McClelland,  b.  1817  ;  d.  1827. 
Margaret  ^  McClelland. 
Sarah  CabelP  McClelland, 
xi.  Mary  Carter  ^  McClelland. 
James  Bruce  McClelland, 
xiii.  An  infant,  d.  unnamed,  1830. 
218.  xiv.  Martha  Edmonia^  McClelland. 

211.  Elvira  Henry  ^  McCleUand,  born  April  23,  1808; 
married,  October  19,  1826,  John  Henry,  of  "  Red  Hill," 
Charlotte  County,  Va.  She  died  in  1873.  Her  husband, 
Mr.  John  Henry  ( born  February  16,  1796 ;  died  January  7, 
1868),  was  the  youngest  son  of  Patrick  Henry,  the  orator, 
and  lived  at  the  ancient  seat  of  his  father.  "A  liberal 
education  designed  to  prepare  him  for  the  bar,  developed  in 
him  a  love  for  the  best  authors,  which  he  made  his  constant 
companions.  Hospitable  to  all  visitors,  kind  to  all  neigh- 
bors, indulgent  to  his  servants,  affectionate  and  devoted  to 
his  family,  guileless  towards  all  men,  with  the  grace  of  God 


211. 

iii. 

212. 

iv. 

V. 

213. 

vi. 

vii. 

viii. 

214. 

ix. 

215. 

X. 

216. 

xi. 

217. 

xii. 

THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  343 

shedding  a  lustre  over  all  his  virtues,  he  presented  a  noble 
example  of  the  Christian  gentleman.  For  more  than  thirty- 
six  years  he  was  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church,  and 
walked  in  the  fear  of  God." 

211.  Elvira  H.^  McClelland  and  John  Henry  had  issue 
six  :  — 

219.  i.  Margaret  Ann  ^  Henry. 

ii.  Elvira  Bruce'  Henry,  b.  July  2,  1829;  m.  (first). 
May  9, 1848,  Jessie  Higginbotham,  of  Amherst 
County,  Va.  He  d.  s.  p.  She  m.  (second), 
November  19,  1851,  Alexander  F.  Taylor,  and 
had  one  son :  i.  Robert  ^  Taylor,  b.  August  7, 
1852. 

220.  iii.  William  Wirt 'Henry. 

221.  iv.  Thomas  Stanhope  Henry. 

v.  Laura  Helen  Henry,  b.  March  15,  1836 ;  m.,  in 
March,  1855,  Dr.  James  W.  Carter ;  d.  July  4, 
1856,  s.  p. 

222.  vi.  Emma  CabeU'  Henry. 

219.  Margaret  Ann'  Henry,  b.  October  4,  1827 ;  m.,  by 
Rev.  William  H.  Kinckle,  November  20,  1849,  to  WilHam 
A.  Miller,  of  Lynchburg,  Va.,  and  had  issue  eleven  :  — 
i.  Elvira  Henry ^  MiUer,  b.  October  9,  1850,  at  "Red 

Hill." 
ii.  Samuel  T.  Miller,  b.  1851 ;  d.  1853. 
iii.  Florence  Miller,  m.  John  C.  Dabney,  and  has  issue : 
i.  William  M.^ ;    ii.  Emma   H. ;    iii.  Margaret    H. ; 
iv.  Frederick  A. ;  v.  John  C. ;  and  vi.  Susan  ^  Dab- 
ney. 
iv.  John  Henry  Miller. 
V.  David  Patrick  Miller,  d.  young, 
vi.  Laura  Cabell  Miller,  d.  young, 
vii.  Lucy  Grey  Miller,  d.  young, 
viii.  William  Price  MiUer. 
ix.  Kate  Miller,  d.  young. 
X.  Rosa  Cabell  Miller. 
xi.  Wirt  Henry  Miller. 


344  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

220.  WiUiam  Wirt^  Henry,  born  February  14,  1831,  at 
"  Red  Hill,"  Charlotte  County,  Va. ;  educated  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Virginia,  where  he  took  the  degree  of  M.  A. ; 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1853  ;  in  C.  S.  A.  service  ;  was  com- 
monwealth attorney  for  Charlotte  County;  removed  to 
Richmond  in  1873,  and  represented  that  city  in  the  legisla- 
ture from  1877  to  1883.  He  was  the  orator  of  the  Phila- 
delphia Centennial  in  1876,  and  of  the  centennial  celebra- 
tion of  the  laying  of  the  corner-stone  of  the  Capitol  at 
Washington  in  1893.  He  was  president  of  the  American 
Historical  Association  in  1891 ;  was  for  many  years  presi- 
dent of  the  Virginia  Historical  Society,  and  is  now  presi- 
dent of  the  Virginia  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  American 
Revolution,  and  commissioner  from  Virginia  in  the  Peabody 
Board  of  Education.  He  has  written,  among  other  papers, 
"  The  Truth  Concerning  George  Rogers  Clark ;  "  "  The 
Rescue  of  Captain  Smith  by  Pocahontas ;  "  "  Patrick  Henry 
the  Earliest  Advocate  of  American  Independence;"  a  paper 
on  Sir  Walter  Raleigh,  and  many  on  the  earlier  stages  of 
the  growth  of  Virginia;  and  has  recently  published  the 
"  Life,  Correspondence,  and  Speeches  of  Patrick  Henry." 

220.  Hon.  William  Wirt  ^  Henry  married,  November  8, 
1854,  Miss  Lucy  Gray  Marshall,  of  Charlotte  County,  Va., 
State  Regent  for  Virginia  of  the  Virginia  Society  of  the 
Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution ;  member  of  the  ad- 
visory board  of  the  A.  P.  V.  A.,  of  "  The  Society  of  the 
Colonial  Dames  "  in  Virginia,  etc.     Issue  :  — 
i.  Elizabeth  Watkins  ^  Henry,  vice-president  of  "  The  Co- 
lonial Dames  "  in  Virginia,  and  also  an  ofiicial  of  sev- 
eral other  patriotic  societies ;    m.,  October  9,  1879, 
Hon.  James  Lyons  (eldest  son  of  the  late  Judge  Wil- 
liam H.  Lyons),  member  of  the  House  of  Delegates 
from  Richmond,  1879-1880  and  1881-1882  ;  Assist- 
ant United  States  Attorney  for  the  Eastern  District  of 
Virginia,  1885-1889 ;  one  of  the  ruling  elders  of  the 
Second  Presbyterian  Church  of  Richmond,  etc. ;  son 
of  Judge  William  Henry  Lyons,  son  of  Hon.  James 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  345 

Lyons,  Sr.,  by  his  wife,  Henningham  Watkins, 
daughter  of  the  Hon.  Joseph  Watkins,  and  his  wife 
Mary  Carrington,  daughter  of  Col.  George  Carring- 
ton  the  elder.  Issue  :  i.  William  Wirt  Henry  ^ ;  and 
ii.  Henningham^  Lyons. 

ii.  Lucy  Gray^  Henry,  m.,  October  26,  1886,  Matthew 
Bland  Harrison,  of  Petersburg,  a  successful  lawyer 
and  man  of  affairs  of  St.  Paul  and  Duluth ;  in  1890, 
he  was  appointed  (as  a  Democrat)  one  of  the  World's 
Fair  Commissioners  from  Minnesota  by  President  Har- 
rison. He  died  February  29,  1892,  leaving  an  only 
child  :  i.  Louise  Henry  ^  Harrison. 

iii.  William  Wirt'  Henry,  Jr.,  m.,  July  10,  1894,  at  Hay- 
market,  Va.,  Miss  Auner  Lee  Dulaney,  daughter  of 
the  late  Bladen  Tasker  Dulaney,  of  Fauquier  County, 
Va.     She  survived  her  marriage  only  a  few  months. 

iv.  James  Marshall'  Henry. 

221.  Dr.  Thomas  Stanhope  ^  Henry,  of  Charlotte  County, 
Va.,  born  July  22,  1833 ;  married,  in  January,  1858,  Miss 
Mary  E.  Gaines,  daughter  of  R.  F.  Gaines,  Esq.,  of  Char- 
lotte County,  Va.     Issue :  — 

i.  Mary  Gaines'  Henry,  b.  May  29,  1859. 
ii.  Thomas  Stanhope '  Henry,  b.  May  4,  1863. 
iii.  Robert  Gaines'  H^nry,  b.  December  4,  1866. 

222.  Emma   CabelP    Henry,  born  February  14,  1838; 
married,  December  22,  1858,  Maj.  James  B.  Ferguson,^  of 
Richmond,  who  was  agent  for  the  Confederate  government 
in  Europe,  where  his  wife  visited  him  in  1864.     Issue  :  — 
i.  Elvii'a  H.'  Ferguson,  b.  December  31,  1859. 

ii.  James  B.'  Ferguson,  Jr.,  m.  Dora  Horner. 

212.  Thomas  Stanhope^  McClelland,  born  March  15, 
1810 ;  educated  at  Washington  College,  Va. ;  studied  for 
the  law ;  went  twice  to  Europe.  He  is  still  living.  He 
married,  November  5,  1849,  Maria  Louisa,  daughter  of 
Frederick  C.  Graf,  Sr.,  late  of  Baltimore.     She  died  March 

1  See  Pocahontas  and  her  Descendants,  p.  52. 


346  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

13,  1893,  in  her  80th  year.  She  was  widely  known  and 
greatly  beloved  by  the  people  of  Nelson  and  Buckingham 
counties,  where  all  of  her  married  life  was  spent.  Her 
father,  Mr.  Graf,  was  born  in  the  principality  of  Waldeck, 
Germany ;  emigrated  to  America ;  was  a  prominent  mer- 
chant of  Baltimore,  and  consul  for  the  free  city  of  Ham- 
burg.    His  father  was  a  Lutheran  clergyman. 

211.  Mr.  Thomas  S.^  McClelland  has  issue :  — 
i.  Anna  La  Mott*'  McClelland,  b.  August  17,  1850;  m. 
William  H.  Whelan,  of  Baltimore,  and  had  issue :  i. 
Maud*^;  and  ii.  Louisa  Graf  ^  Whelan. 
ii.  Mary  Greenway  ^  McClelland,  b.  August  5,  1853 ;  edu- 
cated by  her  mother,  whose  intellectual  attainments 
were  of  a  high  order.  M.  G.  McClelland's  first  novel, 
"  Oblivion,"  appeared  in  1886.  She  has  since  had 
pubhshed  :  "  A  Self-made  Man,"  "  Jean  Monteith," 
"  Princess,"  "  Madame  Silva,"  and  nimierous  short 
stories. 

213.  Laura  ^  McClelland,  born  March  6,  1814 ;  married, 
October  10,  1833,  George  Mercer  Yuille  MiUer,  Esq.,  of 
Hahfax  County,  Va. ;  and  died  at  her  home,  "  Belle  Vue," 
September  12,  1852.    "  A  woman  remarkable  for  her  many 
kind  acts  and  lovely  disposition."       Her  husband  was  a 
Southern  planter,  owning  a  beautiful  estate  on  Staunton 
River,  near  the  friends  of  his  father,  Patrick  Henry  and 
John  Randolph  of  Roanoke.     "  His  paternal  ancestor  came 
from  Scotland ;  settled  in  the  present  county  of  Pittsyl- 
vania about  1775,  and  was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolution." 
He  died  at  an  advanced  age,  in  June,  1866,  and  was  buried 
by  the  side  of  his  wife  at  "  Belle  Vue."     Issue :  — 
i.  Margaret  Ellen  ^  Miller,  m.  John  C.  Tarr,  from  Wheel- 
ing,  W.   Va.,    now   city   attorney  of    Leavenworth, 
Kans.     Issue :  — 
i.  Laura  Frances^  Tarr. 

ii.  George  Campbell^  Tarr,  m.  his  cousin,  Frances 
Tarr,  and  has:  i.  Lorene^;  and  ii.  Ellen ^  Tarr. 


MARY  GREENWAY   McCLELLAND 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  347 

ii.  William  Bacon  ^  Miller,  of  Pittsylvania  County,  Va. ; 
served  in  the  C.  S.  A.,  as  Keutenant  of  cavalry  in 
the  Army  of  Northern  Virginia ;  d.  in  Colorado  in 
1872,  whither  he  had  gone  for  his  health;  m.  his 
cousin,  Mary  Agnes  Miller,  of  Texas,  who  d.  in  1867. 
Issue :  i.  Thomas  S.^,  d.  infant ;  ii.  Crenshaw  ^  Miller, 
of  Richmond,  Va. 

iii.  Thomas  Stanhope  ^  Miller,  a  lieutenant  in  Wise's  Bri- 
gade, C.  S.  A. ;  d.  from  wounds  received  in  battle, 
near  Petersburg,  in  1864 ;  unmarried. 

iv.  Charles  Ed-win  ^  Miller,  served  in  the  C.  S.  A.,  on  the 
staff  of  Gen.  Anderson.  He  now  resides  at  the  ances- 
tral seat,  "  Sharswood,"  Pittsylvania  County,  Va. ; 
unmarried. 

V.  Parke  Carter^  Miller,  m.,  in  1865,  Horatio  Davis,  attor- 
ney at  law,  of  Wilmington,  N.  C.  (brother  to  Hon. 
George  Davis,  attorney-general  C.  S.  A.,  and  Bishop 
Thomas  L.  Davis,  of  South  Carolina).  Horatio  Davis 
was  a  lieutenant  of  artillery,  C.  S.  A.,  and  is  now  a 
lawyer  of  Gainesville,  Florida.  Issue :  i.  William 
Giles "'  ;  ii.  Charles  ;  and  iii.  Thomas  Frederick 
Davis. 

214.  Margaret^  McClelland,  born  January  20,  1820; 
died  September  24,  1875 ;  married,  January  20,  1840, 
Ludwell  H.  Brown,  of  Richmond,  Va.  (born  November 
1,  1818),  a  qWA  engineer  of  distinction ;  was  on  the  James 
River  and  Kanawha  Canal  under  Col.  Charles  Ellett,  and 
after  on  many  of  the  pubHc  works  in  Virginia ;  died  March 
6,  1859 ;  son  of  James  Brown,  Jr.  (1780-1859),  second 
auditor  of  the  State  of  Vii*ginia  for  forty  years,  whose 
father,  John  Brown  (1750-1810),  a  Scotchman,  emigrated 
to  Virginia  ;  was  clerk  of  the  District  Court,  General  Court, 
and  Court  of  Appeals  of  Virginia,  at  Richmond.  Accom- 
panied Chief  Justice  Marshall  as  his  secretary  when  he 
went  to  Paris  with  C.  C.  Pinckney  and  Elbridge  Gerry  as 
envoys  extraordinary  to  the  French  RepubHc. 


348  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

James  Brown,  Jr.  (auditor),  married,  in  1800,  Frances 
(born  December  29,  1783),  daughter  of  William  Goosley, 
of  York,  and  his  wife,  Ludwell  (born  December  31,  1754), 
daughter  of  Benjamin  Harrison  and  his  wife,  Susannah 
Digges,  granddaughter  of  Col.  Dudley  Digges,  a  grandson 
of  Sir  Dudley  Digges,  one  of  our  founders.^ 

214.  Mrs.  Margaret  ^  McClelland  Brown  had  issue  :  — 
i.  James  Cabell  ^  Brown,  of  California,  m.,  first,  in  1864, 
Marian  Murray.    She  d.  in  1872.    Issue  :  i.  James" ; 
ii.  WilHam  Cabell^;    and   iii.  Margaret^    Brown; 
m.,   second,  in    1874,  Annie  Sinclair.      Issue :    iv. 
Winfield  Scott  Keys^  Brown, 
ii.  Margaret  Cabell^  Brown,  m.,  in  1862,  Henry  Lough- 
borough, of  the  District  of  Columbia,  a  soldier  in  the 
C.  S.  A.  [son  of  Hamilton,  the  son  of  Nathan,  the 
son  of  David  Loughborough,  an  EngHsh  Quaker, 
who  came  to  America  in  1718].     Issue:  i.  Hamil- 
ton ^ ;  ii.  Ludwell  ^ ;  iii.  Henry  ^ ;   iv.  Margaret  Ca- 
bell ' ;    V.   David  ^ ;    vi.   Robert '  ;  vii.   Sarah  ^ ;    viii. 
Caroline  ^ ;  and  ix.  Nathan  ^  Loughborough. 
iii.  John  Francis  Deane  ^  Brown. 

iv.  Mary  Rosalie^  Brown,  m.,  in  1867,  Porter  Johnson, 
Esq.,  of  Rockbridge  County,  Va.  Issue :  i.  Fan- 
nie ^ ;  ii.  Richard  ^ ;  iii.  Porter  ^ ;  iv.  Ludwell  H.^ ; 
V.  OHve^ ;  vi.  Caroline' ;  vii.  AHce' ;  viii.  Edmonia' ; 
and  ix.  Leake '  Johnson. 
V.  Frances  H.*^  Brown,  m.,  in  1868,  G.  Walker  Gihner, 
Esq.,  of  Albemarle  County,  Va.,  son  of  George  C, 
and  nephew  of  Gov.  Thomas  Walker  Gilmer,  who 
were  grandsons  of  Dr.  George  Gilmer,  of  "  Pen 
Park."  Issue :  i.  Rosa  L.' ;  ii.  Margaret  C ;  iii. 
Ludwell  H."^ ;  iv.  Edmonia  Preston ' ;  v.  George 
Walker ' ;  vi.  John  Harmer ' ;  and  vii.  Isa  Barks- 
dale'  Gihner. 
vi.  Thomas  S.^  Brown ;  unmarried. 

1  See   William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly,  January,  1893,  pp.  97,  98,  and 
The  Genesis  of  the  United  States,  p.  878. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  349 

vii.  Edmonia  Preston  ^  Brown,  m.  Leake  Johnson,  Esq.,  of 
Rockbridge  County,  Va.  Issue :  i.  Margaret  ^ ;  ii. 
Thomas  SJ ;  iii.  Waldo  ^ ;  and  iv.  Philip  Ludwell  ^ 
Johnson. 
viii.  Wingfield  Ludwell^  Brown,  county  attorney,  Philips- 
burg,  Mont. ;  m.,  in  1887,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Z. 
R.  Lewis,  Esq.,  of  Nelson  County,  Va.  Issue: 
i.  Robert  Lewis  ^ ;  and  ii.  Wingfield  ^  B^^own. 

215.  Sarah  CabeU^  McCleUand,  born  February  22,  1822; 
still  hving ;  married,  April  12,  1854,  Dr.  Robert  R.  Barton, 
of  Rockbridge  County,  Va.  He  was  born  in  Dinwiddle 
County,  Va. ;  studied  medicine  under  the  care  of  his  uncle, 
the  distinguished  Dr.  Benjamin  Smith  Barton  (1766-1815), 
of  Philadelphia ;  graduated  M.  D.  in  1813 ;  when  not  quite 
21,  appointed  a  surgeon  in  the  U.  S.  N. ;  served  on  the 
Niagara  in  the  battle  of  September  10,  1813,  and  shared 
the  honors  as  he  had  braved  the  perils  of  Perry's  great 
victory ;  after  peace  with  Great  Britain,  was  attached  to 
the  United  States  squackon  in  the  Mediterranean ;  was 
medical  officer  of  the  Constellation  when  that  frigate,  under 
Capt.  Gordon,  engaged  and  captured  the  Algerine  flagship ; 
in  1817,  owing  to  ill-health,  he  resigned  from  the  navy  and 
entered  upon  the  practice  of  his  profession,  first  in  Win- 
chester and  afterwards  in  Lexington,  Va.,  where  he  died 
January  21,  1858.  His  father,  Richard  P.  Barton,  moved 
to  Virginia  from  Pennsylvania  soon  after  the  Revolution  ; 
married  Martha  Walker  (she  died  in  October,  1836),  of 
Dinwiddle  County,  Va. ;  and  died  at  his  seat,  Springdale, 
near  Winchester,  Va.,  January  10,  1821.  He  was  the  son 
of  Rev.  Thomas  Barton  (1730-1780),  who  was  educated  at 
DubHn  University  ;  took  orders  in  the  Church  of  England ; 
was  sent  to  America  by  the  "  Society  for  the  Propagation 
of  the  Gospel  in  Foreign  Parts;"  came  to  Philadelphia; 
was  a  chaplain  in  the  expedition  against  Fort  Du  Quesne  in 
1758  ;  and  was  afterwards  (from  1759  to  1777)  rector  of 
the  church  at  Lancaster,  Pa.     He  married,  in  1753,  Esther 


350  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

(1731-1774),  sister  of  David  Rittenhoiise  and  daughter 
of  Matthias  Rittenhouse,  whose  grandfather,  a  Hollander, 
estabhshed  at  Germantown,  about  1G90,  the  first  paper- 
mill  in  America. 

214.  Mrs.  Sarah  CabeU^  Barton  had  issue  :  — 

i.  Edmonia  Preston^  Barton,  b.  in  1856 ;  m.,  in  July, 
1877,  at  Lexington,  Va.,  Lawrence  W.  Hiunes,  of 
Memphis,  Tenn.,  son  of  General  W.  Y.  C.  Himies, 

C.  S.  A.,  and  has  issue  :  i.  CabeU  ^  and  ii. ''Humes. 

ii.  David  R."  Barton,  of  Diuango,  Colorado. 

216.  Mary  Carter  ^  McCleUand,  born  March  24,  1824 ; 
married,  at  Montezuma,  by  Rev.  WiUiam  S.  Reid,  D.  D.,  De- 
cember 8,  1847,  to  Rev.  John  A.  Scott,  of  Halifax  County, 
Va. ;  she  died  .     Her  husband.  Rev.  John  A. 

Scott,  a  distinguished  Presbyterian  minister,  was  the  son  of 
Rev.  WiUiam  Nelson  Scott,  D.  D.,  born  Augusta  County, 
Va.,  March  4,  1789,  died  Luray,  Va.,  January  24,  1857 ; 
son  of  Rev.  Archibald  Scott,  born  in  Scotland ;  came  at 
an  early  age  to  Pennsylvania ;  entered  Liberty  Hall  Acad- 
emy, Augusta  County,  Va.,  under  Mr.  Graham ;  Hcensed  to 
preach  by  the  Presbytery  in  1777  ;  became  the  pastor  of 
several  chm-ches  in  Augusta  County,  Va. ;  appointed  a 
trustee  of  Liberty  HaU  Academy  in  1782  ;  elected  a  mem- 
ber of  the  corporate  body  under  the  charter  to  Washington 
College  in  1784  ;  died  at  his  residence,  six  miles  southwest 
of  Staunton,  March  4,  1799. 

Rev.  William  Nelson  Scott,  D.  D.  (1789-1857) ;  married 
Nancy  Daniel,  daughter  of  John  Daniel  (son  of  James 
Daniel,  —  sometime  Sheriif  of  Goochland  and  of  Albe- 
marle, will  dated  October  30,  1760,  proven  February  12, 
1761,  —  of  Goochland,  and  EHzabeth  Woodson,  his  Avife), 
and  EHzabeth  Morton,  daughter  of  Col.  Joseph  Morton 
and  Aggy  Woodson,  daughter  of  Richard  Woodson  ;  son 
of  Robert  Woodson  ;  son  of  John  Woodson,  who  came  to 
Virginia  from  Dorsetshii'e,  England,  in  1625. 

215.  Mrs.  Mary  C.  Scott  had  issue  :  — 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     351 

i.  Rev.  William  Nelson  ^  Scott,  D.  D.,  Presbyterian  min- 
ister, of  Galveston,  Texas,  b.  September  25,  1848  ; 
gracluated  A.  B.  Washington  College,  Va.,  in  1868  ; 
m.,  December  19,  1872,  Maggie  Hanna,  of  Shelby 
County,  Ky.  Issue  :  i.  Agnes  Morton " ;  ii.  Mary 
CabelF  ;  iii.  Nannie  Brooke^;  iv.  Wm.  Nelson  ^ ;  and 
V.  John  Archibald  ^  Scott. 

ii.  Stanhope  McClelland  ^  Scott,  b.  Jidy  20,  1850 ;  grad- 
uated A.  B.,  Washington  College,  1868  ;  M.  D.,  Uni- 
versity of  Virginia,  1870  ;  physician  in  Terra  Alta, 
W.  Va. ;  m.,  October  11,  1875,  Annie  E.  Fairfax,  of 
Preston  County,  W.  Va.  Issue  :  i.  Buckner  Fair- 
fax ^ ;  and  ii.  John  Allen  ^  Scott. 

iii.  John  Addison  ^  Scott,  b.  July  9,  1852 ;  graduated 
A.  B.,  Washington  College,  1868 ;  Presbyterian 
minister  ;  m.,  in  1880,  Lucy  Waddell,  of  Albemarle 
County,  Va.  Issue  :  i.  Belle  Hill  ^ ;  ii.  Mary  Carter  ^ ; 
iii.  Margaret  Mayo  ^ ;  iv.  Leigh  Richmond "' ;  and  v. 
John  Andi*ew^  Scott. 
iv.  Lyttleton  Edmunds  ^  Scott,  b.  March  1,  1855  ;  Pres- 
byterian minister ;  m.,  1884,  Kitty  Waddell,  of  Albe- 
marle County,  Va.  Issue  :  i.  LeHa  R.^ ;  ii.  Lyttleton 
E.' ;  iii.  John  Cabell  ^ ;   and  iv.  Kitty  B.^  Scott. 

v.  Margaret  Cabell^  Scott,  b.  September  11,  1859;  m., 
in  1889,  T.  E.  Nininger,  Esq.,  of  Botetourt  County, 
Va.     Issue  :  i.  Mary  Carter  ^  Nininger. 

vi.  Anna  Mayo  "^  Scott,  b.  March  2,  1864. 
vii.  Charles  Carrington  ^  Scott,  b.  December  7,  1866. 

217.  James  Bruce  ^  McClelland,  born  June  25, 1827  ;  ed- 
ucated at  Washington  College  ;  inherited  the  Montezimia 
estate ;  engaged  in  the  commission  business  in  Richmond 
with  Gen.  Alexander  Brown,  under  the  firm  name  of 
Brown  &  McClelland ;  served  in  the  Governor's  Guard, 
C.  S.  A.,  Capt.  J.  Grattan  Cabell,  at  the  first  battle  of 
Manassas ;  was  afterwards  detailed  for  the  quartermaster's 
department  with  the  rank  of  captain ;  was  soon  advanced 


352  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

to  tlie  rank  of  major ;  died  August  31,  1862,  at  "  Monte- 
zuma." He  contracted  typhoid  fever  while  attending  to 
his  duties  after  the  battles  below  Richmond.  I  find  the 
following  relative  to  him  in  Mr.  Mayo  Cabell's  diary : 
"  Bruce  had  been  actively  employed  in  the  service  of  the 
Confederacy  from  the  commencement  of  the  war.  His 
capacity  and  fidelity  was  equaled  by  few.  He  was  just  and 
conscientious  in  all  the  relations  of  life.  His  death  is  deeply 
deplored  by  all  who  knew  him.  To  his  family  the  loss  is 
irreparable.  Another  calamity  attributable  to  this  unjust 
war."  He  was  a  man  of  high  literary  attainments  and 
tastes.  He  married,  February  26,  1850,  in  Lynchburg,  Va., 
Nannie  L.  Otey,  daughter  of  Dr.  William  Leftmch  Otey. 
She  survived  her  husband  but  a  few  weeks  ;  died  October 
11,  1862,  of  typhoid  fever.  A  bright  and  popular  woman, 
most  noted,  I  may  well  say ;  celebrated  for  her  beauty  in 
form  and  feature,  and  for  her  devotion  to  her  husband. 
She  was  a  daughter  of  William  Leftwich  Otey  (and  his  wife, 
Kitty  Logwood),  first  cousin  to  Mary  Otey  Leftwich,  who 
married  Pleasant  M.  Goggin  [son  of  Stephen  Goggin  and 
his  wife,  Rachel  Moorman,  the  grandparents  of  Hon.  Wil- 
liam L.  Goggin,  of  Virginia],  the  brother  of  Pamela 
Goggin,  who  married  Samuel  Clemens,  from  whom  "  Mark 
Twain "  descends.  WilHam  Leftwich  Otey  was  son  of 
Frazier  Otey  (by  his  first  wife,  Mildred  Leftwich),  the  son 
of  Capt.  John  Otey,  a  soldier  in  the  Revolution,  who  moved 
from  New  Kent  to  Bedford  County,  Va.,  about  the  time  of 
the  Revolutionary  War,  by  his  wife  Mary  Hopkins  (born 
July  14,  1739,  the  daughter,  I  beheve,  of  John,  son  of  Dr. 
Arthur  Hopkins),  ancestors  of  Bishop  James  H.  Otey,  of 
Missouri,  and  many  other  distinguished  people. 

217.  James  B.^  and  Nannie  L.  McClelland  left  issue  :  — 
i.  William  Otey  ^  McClelland,  b.  at  "  Montezuma,"  May 
30,  1851 ;  d.  at  Norwood  School  of  typhoid  fever, 
August  26, 1869.  Highly  gifted  and  full  of  promise, 
of  winning  manners,  he  was  popular  with  old  and 
young. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  353 

ii.  Thomas  Stanhope  ^  McClelland,  b.  September  11,  1852; 
educated  at  Norwood  School;  m.  Lucy  Landon 
Winn,  daughter  of  Dr.  Henry  Jasper  Winn  and  Eliza 
Evans  Ellerbe  (she  d.  in  1878),  of  Birmingham, 
Ala.;  "Ellerbe  of  Enghsh  descent,  through  South 
Carolina  Winn  of  Welsh  descent,  to  Alabama  in 
1830."  Issue  :  i.  Thomas  Stanhope  '  ;  and  ii.  Henry  ^ 
McClelland. 

iii.  Edmond  L.*^  McCleUand,  b.  November  26,  1853  ;  edu- 
cated at  Norwood  School  and  the  University  of 
Virginia  ;  professor  at  the  Episcopal  High  School 
near  Alexandria,  etc.  He  m.,  Jidy  11,  1882,  Lucy 
Eleanor  Barclay,  daughter  of  D.  Robert  Barclay, 
a  lawyer  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.  (author  of  Barclay's 
Digest),  and  gi-anddaughter  of  EHliu  H.  Shepard, 
who  was  closely  identified  with  the  early  history  of 
that  city.  A  profound  scholar,  he  was  for  many 
years  engaged  m  educational  work.  He  amassed  a 
considerable  fortune  by  judicious  m vestments  m  city 
real  estate,  and  after  the  Mexican  war,  in  which  he 
served  as  captain  of  a  company,  eqidpped  at  his 
own  expense,  he  devoted  himself  to  the  qmet  enjoy- 
ment of  his  home.  He  died  at  the  age  of  eighty- 
one,  loved  and  esteemed  by  three  generations  of  his 
fellow-citizens,  and  was  buried  with  Masonic  and 
civic  honors  at  the  family  home  in  Jefferson 
County,  N.  Y.  Mr.  Echnond  L.*^  McCleUand  has 
issue:  i.  Nannie  Shepard'^  McClelland. 

iv.  James  Bruce  *^  McClelland,  b.  February  20,  1857; 
educated  at  Norwood  School ;  went  to  Alabama  in 
1875  ;  in  1884  went  thence  to  Texas,  and  since  then 
has  resided  at  Clarendon,  in  the  real  estate  business 
with  his  elder  brother,  Thomas  Stanhope  McClel- 
land. He  m.,  June  21,  1886,  at  Birmingham,  Ala., 
Kate  Ellerbe  Winn  (sister  to  his  brother's  wife),  and 
has  issue  :  i.  James  Bruce ' ;  and  ii.  Eliza  Ellerbe  ^ 
McClelland. 


354  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

218.  Martha  Edmonia '  McClelland,  b.  May  22,  1831  ; 
still  living ;  married  in  October,  1853,  Eli  S.  Tutwiler,  of 
Lexington,  Va.  He  was  born  in  Fluvanna  County ;  was  a 
Captain  in  the  C.  S.  A.  (married,  first,  a  daughter  of  Dr. 
John  B.  Garland,  of  Woodberry,  Richmond  County,  Va., 
and  granddaughter  of  John  McClelland,  of  Lexington,  the 
elder  brother  of  Hon.  Thomas  S.  McCleUand,  of  Nelson)  ; 
his  maternal  grandfather,  Thomas  Shores,  of  Caroline 
County,  Va.,  a  soldier  in  the  Revolution,  was  of  English 
descent ;  his  paternal  grandfather,  Martin  Tut^viler,  an 
emigrant  to  Harrisonburg,  Rockingham  County,  Va.,  from 
Pennsylvania,  was  of  Swiss  descent.  His  children  are  :  — 
i.  Thos.    S.   McC.®    Tutwiler,    educated   at   Washington 

College ;  m.  Annie  Pope,  and  has  two  children  ^. 
ii.  J.    Bruce   McC.*^    Tutwiler,   educated   at  Washington 

College ;  m.  Meta  Anderson,  and  has  one  child  ^. 
iii.  Margaret  M.  G.^  Tutwiler,  m.  Guy  Garrett, 
iv.  Anna  Scott  Tutwiler,  died  young. 
V.  Argyle  Trevilhan  ^  Tutwiler. 
vi.  Mary  CabeU*^  Tutwiler,  m.  Houston   Leech,    and  has 

issue, 
vii.  Henry  Martin  ^  Tutwiler. 
viii.  W.  W.  Henry''  Tutwiler. 
ix.  Clarence  Cabell^  Tutwiler. 


56.  Ann  Carrington  ^  CabeU,  born  at  "  Union  Hill,"  Sep- 
tember 20,  1787 ;  married  at  the  same  place,  June  28, 
1807,  to  John  James  Flournoy,  of  "  Union  Grove,"  Prince 
Edward  County.  She  died  July  7,  1854,  at  FarmviUe,  Va. 
She  was  received  into  the  Briery  Presbyterian  Church  in 
April,  1811,  and  continued  a  member  of  that  church  to 
her  death.  "  A  bright  Christian,  a  devoted  wife,  mother, 
and  friend."  Her  husband,  John  James  Flournoy,  by 
occupation  a  farmer,  was  a  soldier  in  the  War  of  1812 ; 
received  into  Briery  Church  July  7,  1822 ;  honored  and 
respected  by  aU  who  knew  him,  he  Hved  to  be  nearly  80 
years   old,  and  died  in  the  Christian  faith.     "  A  man  of 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  355 

strong  attachments,  a  faithful  and  affectionate  husband  and 
father,  and  a  true  friend."  He  was  the  son  of  Thomas 
Flournoy,  born  November  20,  1738 ;  under-sheriff  of 
Prince  Edward  County  in  1757 ;  married  Anne  Martin 
(who,  surviving  him,  died  in  June,  1814)  ;  member  of  the 
Virginia  House  of  Delegates,  1780  ;  county  heutenant  from 
1783,  and  high  sheriff  of  Prince  Edward  in  1786-1787  ;  a 
member  of  Briery  Chui'ch,  he  died  late  in  1800,  or  early  m 
1801.  His  father,  Jean  Jacques  Flournoy,  a  Huguenot,  was 
born  November  17,  1686 ;  came  to  Vu'ginia  from  Geneva, 

Switzerland,   about  ;  married,   June  23,    1720,   in 

Vu'ginia,  Elizabeth,  born  December  25,  1695  (widow  of 
Orlando  Jones),  daughter  of  James  Wilhams  (a  lawyer),  a 
native  of  Wales,  and  of  Ehzabeth  Buckner,  his  wife,  a 
native  of  Virginia,  the  blood  of  these  races  blending  in 
his  childi'en.  A  fuU  genealogy  of  the  Flom-noy  family  is 
now  being  pubhshed  in  "  The  Vhginia  Magazine  of  History 
and  Biography."  Hence  my  account  of  this  family  (which 
was  mainly  compiled  for  me  in  1879  by  the  late  Hon. 
Thomas  S.  and  Dr.  Patrick  H.  Flournoy)  will  be  given 
herein  as  briefly  as  possible  consistent  with  the  object  of  this 
book. 

56.  Mrs.  Ann  Carrington  *  Flournoy  had  issue  :  — 

223.  i.  Ann  Eliza  ^  Flournoy. 

224.  ii.  WiUiamCabeU^  Flournoy. 

225.  iii.  Thomas  Stanhope  ^  Flournoy. 

226.  iv.  Patrick  Henry  ^  Flournoy. 

223.  Ann  Eliza  ^  Flom-noy,  married  August  15,  1832,  at 
Hampden  Sidney  College,  by  the  Rev.  Benjamm  Stanton, 
to  Henry  Wood,  Esq.,  a  lawyer,  of  Ameha,  who  moved  to 
Clarksville,  Mecklenburg  County,  where  he  continued  to 
reside  until  his  death.  "  He  was  a  very  successful  lawyer." 
Issue :  — 

i.  John  Stanhope  ^  Wood,  b.  July  12,  1833,  in  Ameha 
County ;  went  to  California  in  1856  ;  returned  to 
Virginia  in  1860 ;  married,  May  15  in  that  year. 


356  THE   CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

Miss  Jennie  Scott ;  was  a  captain  in  the  C.  S.  A. ; 
resides  in  Mecklenburg  County.  Issue :  i.  Sue 
Goode  ^ ;  ii.  Walter  Seal '  ;  and  iii.  Eliza  Flournoy  ^ 
Wood, 
n.  Ellen  Jane  ^  Wood,  b.  in  Amelia  County,  November  5, 
1835 ;  educated  at  the  Female  Academy  in  Clarks- 
ville;  m.,  in  May,  1854,  Dr.  William  S.  Easley  ; 
moved  to  Richmond  soon  after  marriage,  where  her 
husband  edited  the  "Penny  Post,"  in  the  interest  of 
the  Know-Nothing  Party.  After  the  defeat  of  that 
party  he  returned  to  the  practice  of  his  profession 
in  Mecklenburg  County.  He  was  a  surgeon  in  the 
C.  S.  A.,  and  died  in  February,  1865,  of  disease 
contracted  in  the  service.  His  wife  died  at  Wood- 
land, near  Clarksville,  April  29,  1874,  leaving  issue  : 
i.  Mona  Boyd  ^ ;  ii.  Nannie  Belle  ^ ;  iii.  Wm.  Sharpe  ^ ; 
and  iv.  Fred  B.^  Easley. 

iii.  William  Walter  ^  Wood,  b.  in  AmeHa,  November  18, 
1838  ;  educated  at  Hampden  Sidney  ;  studied  law 
and  began  its  practice  in  Clarksville  ;  entered  the 
C.  S.  A.  as  Heutenant,  and  rose  to  the  rank  of 
colonel  in  Pickett's  division  ;  after  the  war  settled 
in  Halifax,  and  practiced  his  profession  in  partner- 
ship with  Col.  E,  Barksdale,  Jr. ;  member  of  the 
Virginia  legislature  in  1870 ;  moved  to  St.  Louis, 
Mo.,  in  1874,  and  practiced  law  with  Col.  E.  C. 
Cabell ;  became  interested  in  the  mineral  wealth  of 
the  northern  provinces  of  Mexico  in  1877 ;  died  un- 
married. 

iv.  Henry  *^  Wood,  b.  in  Clarksville,  May  13,  1843  ;  edu- 
cated in  Lexington  at  V.  M.  I.  ;  went  into  the 
C.  S.  A.  as  lieutenant ;  was  at  the  surrender  of 
Roanoke  Island  when  the  distinguished  young  Vir- 
ginian, 0.  Jennings  Wise,  was  killed ;  rose  to  the 
rank  of  captain ;  was  in  Mahone's  command  in  all 
his  important  engagements  around  Petersburg ; 
after   the   war   studied   law;  was   for   some  years 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  357 

county  judge  of  Mecklenburg ;  m.  (first),  June 
10,  1869,  Mary  J.  Wood,  daughter  of  Richard  and 
Josephine  Sampson  Wood.  She  d.  June  29,  1873, 
leaving  one  child :  i.  Cabell  Sampson  ^  Wood. 
"  Judge  Henry  Wood  has  married  a  second  time, 
and  has  other  children." 
V.  Nannie  Cabell'^  Wood,  b.  in  Clarksville  in  April, 
1845  ;  educated  at  the  Female  Academy  there ;  m., 
in  December,  1867,  Capt.  John  R.  Seal,  of  Norfolk. 
In  1879,  they  resided  in  New  York,  where  her 
husband  was  engaged  in  business  for  the  C.  &  0. 
Railway. 
vi.  Rosa  Buena  ^  Wood,  b.  in  Clarksville  in  April,  1847, 
soon  after  the  battle  of  Buena  Vista ;  educated  at 
Clarksville  Female  Academy ;  m.,  in  1871,  Henry 
Wood*'  Flournoy,  whom  see. 

vii.  Alice  Gertrude  ^  Wood,  b.  and  educated  in  Clarksville ; 
m.  Major  J.  J.  Gordon  ;  resides  in  Cincinnati,  0., 
and  has  one  child.^ 

viii.  Catherine  Patrick  ^  Wood,  b.  in  December,  1851,  in 
Clarksville  ;  educated  at  Miss  Baldwin's  school  in 
Staunton  ;  m.  her  cousin,  N.  E.  Flournoy,  whom 
see. 

224.  Wmiam  CabeU^  Flournoy,  born  December  31, 1809; 
educated  at  Hampden  Sidney  College.  He  was  a  man  of 
generous  and  noble  impulses,  of  a  high  order  of  intellect 
and  rare  powers  of  eloquence.  His  unflinching  fidelity  to 
his  friends,  and  to  every  cause  that  he  espoused,  was  pro- 
verbial. He  was  at  different  times  a  member  of  the  Vir- 
ginia legislature,  and  occupied  a  position  of  commanding 
influence  in  that  body.  He  was  for  many  years  the  prose- 
cuting attorney  in  Prince  Edward,  where  he  had  a  most 
unrivaled  influence  and  popularity.  He  was  frequently 
solicited  to  become  a  candidate  for  the  United  States  Con- 
gress, but  as  frequently  declined.  He  was  always  sent 
to  the  national  nominating  conventions  of  his  party,  and 


358  THE   CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

wielded  large  influence  in  those  bodies  for  good.  He  was 
as  strong  a  Democrat  as  his  brother,  the  Hon.  Thomas  S. 
Flournoy,  was  a  Whig.  He  died  at  his  residence,  at  Prince 
Edward  C.  H.,  March  31,  1861.  A  talented  and  chstin- 
guished  lawyer,  an  attractive,  benevolent,  and  honorable 
man,  his  many  virtues  will  long  be  remembered  by  all 
classes  of  society  with  all  that  warm  affection  which  they 
so  justly  inspired.  He  was  married,  June  26, 1834,  at  Hay- 
market,  Prince  Edward  County,  by  Rev.  George  Baxter, 
D.  D.,  to  Martha  Watkins  Venable  (who  is  stiU  livhig), 
daughter  of  William  L.  Venable,  of  Prince  Edward.  Among 
her  emigrant  ancestors  were :  Venable,  Davis,  Woodson, 
Michaux,  Nantz,  Hughes,  Watkins,  etc.  Issue :  — 
i.  Ann  CabeU*^  Flournoy,  b.  1835;  d.  1837. 
ii.  John  James  ^  Flournoy,  b.  April  13,  1837 ;  soldier  in 

C.  S.  A. ;  m.,  February  9,  1865,  Lucy  Worthy  Allen, 
daughter  of  Dr.  Murett  B.  Allen,  of  East  Cliff, 
Prince  Edward  County,  by  Rev.  J.  H.   C.   Leach, 

D.  D. ;  d.  January  7,  1875,  leaving  one  son,  Wil- 
liam Cabell^  Flournoy,  b.  June  5,  1866. 

iii.  Wilham  Venable''  Flom-noy,  b.  1839;  d.  1842. 

iv.  Benjamin  Stanhope  "^  Flournoy,  b.  1841 ;  d.  1842. 

v.  Frances  Florida  ^  Flournoy,  b.  July  6,  1843 ;  m.,  De- 
cember 24,  1863,  to  John  P.  Fitzgerald,  at  Prince 
Edward  Coui-t  House,  by  Rev.  Robert  L.  Dabney, 
D.  D.  Her  husband,  Mr.  Fitzgerald,  a  lawyer  by 
profession,  was  lieutenant-colonel  23d  Virginia  Reg- 
iment, C.  S.  A. ;  served  in  northwest  Virginia,  then 
under  Jackson,  in  the  Valley ;  wounded  at  Sharps- 
burg  ;  captured  at  Spottsylvania ;  selected  out  of 
Fort  Delaware  as  one  of  fifty  field-officers  to  be  sent 
to  Charleston,  S.  C,  to  be  placed  under  fire  of  Con- 
federate batteries ;  was  there  exchanged,  served  to 
close  of  war,  and  surrendered  at  Aj^pomattox  Court 
House ;  is  now  a  lawyer  of  Farmville,  Va.  They 
have  no  children. 

vi.  Sarah  Venable^  Flournoy,  b.  August  12,  1845;  m., 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     359 

May  14,  1872,  to  Rev.  J.  C.  Painter,  at  Union  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  in  Prince  Edward,  by  Rev.  Thomas 
E.  Peck,  D.  D.  Her  husband,  Mr.  Painter,  was  a 
private  in  the  Otey  Battery,  13th  Virginia  BattaHon 
of  Artillery,  C.  S.  A. ;  went  into  the  army  a  boy  of 
17  years  in  1863,  and  surrendered  with  Gen.  Lee  at 
Appomattox  Court  House.  His  father.  Rev.  George 
Painter,  a  Presbyterian  minister,  was  the  pioneer  of 
Presbyterianism  in  the  counties  of  Pulaski,  Wythe, 
Washington,  and  Smyth.  The  Rev.  J.  C.  Painter 
is  also  a  Presbyterian,  and  is  now  a  minister  in 
Albemarle  County.  Issue  :  i.  George  Whitfield  ^ ; 
ii.  Martha  Venable  ^ ;  iii.  Graham  Crockett  ^ ;  iv. 
CabeU  Alexander^  (dead);  v.  SaUie  Flournoy^ 
(dead) ;  vi.  WilHam  Venable  ^  (dead) ;  vii.  Landon 
Temple  ^ ;  and  viii.  Henry  Lewis  ^  Painter. 

vii.  George  MaUory*^  Flournoy,  b.  1848;  d.  1853. 

viii.  Landon  Cabell  ^  Flournoy,  b.  March  4, 1850 ;  educated 
at  Hampden  Sidney  College;  moved  to  Morgan- 
field,  Ky.,  in  1873 ;  teacher  in  Morganfield  Acad- 
emy, Ky.,  1873-1874 ;  studied  law  in  1874-1875 ; 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  fall  of  1875 ;  superintendent 
of  schools  for  the  county,  1876-1878 ;  chairman  of 
Democratic  County  Committee ;  judge  of  the  County 
Court  since  1886 ;  a  deacon  in  the  Presbyterian 
Chm^ch,  and  a  Mason.  He  was  m.  (first),  February 
27,  1877,  at  Uniontown,  Union  County,  Ky.,  by  Rev. 
William  D.  Morton,  to  Martha  G.  Givens.  She  was 
b.  December  7,  1857,  in  Union  County,  Ky.,  and  d. 
May  9,  1884,  at  Leesburg,  Fla.  Her  children  are : 
i.  Bessie  Venable';  ii.  Florida  Fitzgerald^  (dead); 
iii.  SaUie  Wright  '^ ;  and  iv.  Martha  Watkins  ^  Flour- 
noy. Judge  ^  Flournoy  was  m.  (second).  May  3, 
1888,  at  Clover  Hill,  near  SutherHn,  in  Halifax 
County,  Va.,  to  Susan  CabeU  Cobbs  (b.  in  DanviUe, 
Va.,  November  5,  1864,  daughter  of  Mary  Flour- 
noy Cobbs) ;  her  children  are :  v.  Mary  ^ ;  vi.  Fitz- 
gerald ^ ;  and  vii.  Mildred  Cobbs  ^  Flournoy. 


360  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

ix.  Alice  Eliza  ^  Flournoy,  b.  November  4,  1852;  m., 
October  13,  1875,  at  Farmville,  by  Rev.  J.  C. 
Painter,  to  Littleton  Fitzgerald,  half  brother  of  Col. 
John  P.  Fitzgerald.  They  live  in  Richmond,  Va. 
Issue :  i.  Littleton  ^ ;  ii.  George ' ;  iii.  John  Patter- 
son' (dead);  iv.  Cabell  Flom-noy^;  v.  Alice  Ehza" 
(dead) ;  vi.  SaUie  Tazewell^ ;  and  vii.  Marion  Nantz'^ 
Fitzgerald. 
X.  Charles  Bruce  '^  Flournoy,  b.  November  11,  1854 ;  m. 
Virginia  Dalby ;  they  live  in  Charlotte,  N.  C.  Is- 
sue :  i.  John  Dalby ^  (dead);  ii.  Louise^;  and  iii. 
Martha  Watkins^  Flournoy. 

225.  Thomas  Stanhope  ^  Flournoy,  born  in  Prince  Ed- 
ward County,  December  15,  1811 ;  educated  at  Hampden 
Sidney  College ;    taught  in  the  family  of  Gen.  Alexander 
Brown,  at  Behnont ;  read  law  under  Hon.  Thomas  S.  Mc- 
Clelland, for  whom  he  was  named,  at  Montezuma ;  settled  in 
Halifax  County  as  a  lawyer  in  1834,  and  soon  took  a  lead- 
ing position  as  an  advocate  and  pubhc   speaker.      "  The 
county  being  strongly  Democratic,  and  Mr.  Floiu-noy  being 
an  Old-Line  Whig  of  the  most  ardent  type,  poHtical  prefer- 
ment was  hardly  to  be  thought  of,"  but,  such  was  his  great 
personal  popularity,   in   1846  he  was  elected  to  Congress 
from  the  fifth  Virginia,  a  strong  Democratic  district,  and 
again  in  1848,  serving  two  terms,  March  4,  1847,  to  March 
4,  1851.     "  Diu'ing  his  service  in  Congress,  he  was  thrown 
in  contact  with  Mr.  Lincoln,  and  they  became  warm  per- 
sonal friends.    In  1855,  he  was  the  candidate  of  the  Amer- 
ican party  for  governor,  against  Henry  A.  Wise,  and  it  has 
always  been  confidently  maintained  by  his  friends  that  if  he 
had  made  any  canvass  at  all,  he  would  have  been  elected. 
He  was  a  member    of  the  Vu-ginia  Convention  of  1861 
which  passed  the  ordinance  of  secession,  ha\dng  been  sent 
to  that  body  as  a  moderate  man.     Here  he  faithfully  repre- 
sented the  sentiments  of  his  constituency,  his  voice  being 
for  peace,  —  ^  peace  if  possible.'     But  he  was  a  Virginian 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     361 

of  Virginians,  and  when  the  inevitable  came,  although  past 
the  age  for  military  duty,  he  raised  a  company  of  cavalry 
and  entered  the  C.  S.  A.  as  a  captain."  He  was  promoted 
to  be  colonel  of  his  regiment,  the  6th  Virginia  Cavalry ; 
was  one  of  the  most  gallant  officers  in  the  army.  At  Front 
Royal,  Gen.  Jackson  ordered  hun  to  capture  or  silence  a 
Federal  battery ;  he  promptly  charged  with  four  companies 
of  his  regiment,  repidsing  three  companies  of  cavalry,  a 
regunent  of  infantry,  and  a  battery  of  artillery,  taking  two 
fieldpieces  and  600  prisoners.  This  was  one  of  the  most 
heroic  charges  in  a  war  illuminated  by  heroic  acts.  In 
1863,  he  was  again  a  candidate  for  governor,  with  Hon. 
Wilham  Smith  and  Col.  George  Wythe  Munford,  but  was 
defeated  by  "  Extra  Billy  "  Smith.  After  the  war  he  lo- 
cated in  Danville,  and  resumed  the  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion, becoming  one  of  the  most  laborious  lawyers  in  Vir- 
ginia, practicing  in  the  courts  of  four  or  five  counties,  the 
Virginia  Court  of  Appeals,  and  the  United  States  Court 
in  Danville.  "  He  was  a  deleoate  to  the  Democratic  Con- 
vention  of  1876,  held  at  St.  Louis,  and  was  selected  by 
the  Viroinia  deleo^ation  to  second  the  nomination  of  Mr. 
Tilden,  and  made  the  speech  on  the  occasion."  "  In  early 
life  he  made  a  pubHc  profession  of  faith,  and  for  a  number 
of  years  had  been  an  elder  in  the  Presbyterian  Church,  and 
prominent  in  the  councils  of  that  denomination."  "  As  a 
criminal  lawyer  Col.  Flournoy  had  few  if  any  superiors  in 
the  State,  and  his  power  in  swaying  a  crowd  from  the 
stump  was  second  only  to  his  effectiveness  before  a  jury." 
He  died  March  12,  1883,  at  his  residence  in  Halifax  County, 
Va. 

He  was  married  (first),  January  1,  1835,  at  Gen.  Edward 
C.  Carrington's,  in  Halifax  County,  Va.,  by  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Montgomery,  to  Miss  Susan  Ann  Love,  daughter  of  Allen 
Love,  Esq.,  a  distinguished  lawyer.  She  died  April  21, 
1848,  having  had  issue  :  — 
i.  Allen  F.''  Floui-noy,  d.  in  1849. 
ii.  Mary  P.^  Flournoy,  b.   September  11,   1838 ;  m.  John 


362  THE   CABELLS   AND   THEIR   KIN 

F.  Cobbs,  of  Pittsylvania,  at  Halifax  Court  House. 
She    died   in   1874,    leaving   five    children,    one    of 
whom,  Susan  Cabell   Cobbs,   m.  Judge  Landon  CJ^ 
Flom-noy. 
iii.  Cabell  Edward "  Flournoy,  b.  June  30,   1840 ;  entered 
the  C.  S.  A. ;  became  captain,  then  lieutenant-colonel 
of  cavalry ;  was  killed  while  leading  his  regiment  in 
a  charge  in  a  cavalry  fight  near  Richmond  in  1864 ; 
he  had  a  well-estabhshed  reputation  as  a  gallant  and 
efficient  officer ;  never  married, 
iv.  John  James  "^  Flournoy,  b.  April  11,  1842;  entered  the 
C.  S.  A.  as  a  member  of  the  Richmond  Howitzers ; 
surrendered   at   Appomattox;    moved   to  the    West 
since  the  war. 
V.  Louisa  Cabell  "^  Flom-noy,  b.  May  3,  1844 ;  m.,  at  Hal- 
ifax Com-t  House,  Mr.  William  W.  Cobbs,  of  Pittsyl- 
vania, who  died  leaving  a  large  family, 
vi.  Henry  Wood  ^  Flournoy,  b.  June  6,  1846 ;  entered  the 
C.  S.  A.  as  a  member  of  the  6th  Virginia  Cavahy, 
was  wounded  in  the  fall  of  1864 ;  after  recovering 
he  could  not  mount,  so  joined  the  Richmond  Howitz- 
ers, with  whom  he  fought  and  surrendered  at  Appo- 
mattox ;  after  the  war,  read  law  with  his  father ;  be- 
gan practice  in  Danville  in  the  fall  of  1867 ;  judge 
of  the  Hustings  Court   of  Danville  from  spring  of 
1870  to    December,    1877,    when  he    resigned   and 
resumed  the  practice  of  law   January  1,   1878 ;  re- 
moved from  Danville  to  Washington  County,  Va.,  in 
1881 ;  secretary  of  the  commonwealth  of  Virginia, 
1881-1893;  a  resident  of  Richmond.     In  1871,  he 
m.  his  cousin,  Rosa  Buena  ^  Wood,  and  has  one  son : 
i.  Wood^  Flournoy. 
225.  Hon.  Thomas  S.^  Flournoy  was  married  (second), 
July  22,  1852,  at  "  Cole's  Hill,"  by  Rev.  John  A.  Scott,  to 
Mildred  H.  Coles,  daughter  of  Hon.  Walter  Coles,  of  Pitt- 
sylvania (he  represented  the  Fifth  District  of  Virginia  in 
Congress  for  fourteen  years),  and  his  wife,  Lettice,  daughter 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  363 

of  Judge  Paul  Carrington  the  elder,  of  Charlotte  County, 
by  his  second  wife,  Priscilla  Simms.     Issue  :  — 

vii.  Walter  Coles  ^  Flournoy,  b.  1853;  d.  1862. 
viii.  Helen  ^  Flournoy,  b.  May  9,  1856  ;  m.  John  R.  Patton, 
Esq.     He  d.,  leaving  two  children. 

ix.  Ann«  Flom^noy,  b.  1858;  d.  1862. 
X.  Thomas  Stanhope  '^  Flournoy,  b.  May  8,  1860. 

xi.  Coles  ^  Flournoy,  b.  October  1,  1862. 

xii.  Lettice  Carrington  ^  Flournoy,  b.  August  21,  1865. 
xiii.  Charles^  Carrington  Flournoy,  b.  February  17,  1871. 

226.  Patrick  Henry  ^  Flournoy,  born  in  Prince  Edward 
County,  March  4,  1813 ;  graduated  in  the  Philadel- 
phia College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  and  began  the 
practice  of  his  profession.  In  1849,  he  moved  to  Charlotte 
Court  House,  and  continued  to  reside  there.  Strong  in  his 
convictions,  as  a  citizen  he  was  patriotic  and  zealously 
devoted  to  the  interests  of  his  State ;  as  a  friend  he  was 
warm  and  devoted.  Before  the  war  he  was  a  strong  Whig, 
since  the  war  a  strong  Democrat.  In  reUgion  he  was  a 
good  Presbyterian.  He  died  at  his  residence  in  Charlotte 
Court  House,  March  3,  1887.  For  over  fifty  years  Dr. 
Flournoy  was  engaged  in  the  practice  of  medicine  in  Char- 
lotte County,  and  in  sunshine  and  storm,  by  day  and  night, 
he  was  prompt  to  respond  to  the  call  of  the  sick  and  suf- 
fering. He  was  married  in  1840,  at  the  residence  of  her 
father,  by  Rev.  Dr.  Graham,  to  Susan,  daughter  of  Nicholas 
Edmunds,  of  Charlotte  County,  Va.,  and  his  wife,  Jane 
Dupuy,  and  had  issue  :  — 

^  i.  Nicholas  Edmunds  ^  Flournoy,  b.  March  23,  1841 ;  a 
solcUer  in  the  C.  S.  A.  from  the  beginning  to  the  end; 
m.  his  cousin,  Catharine  Patrick  Wood;  resides  at 
Charlotte  Court  House,  and  had  issue  :  i.  Ann  Ehza  ^ ; 
ii.  Patrick  W.^ ;  iii.  Walter  N.'^  (dead) ;  iv.  Henry 
Cabell  ^  (dead) ;  v.  Nicholas  ^ ;  vi.  Katie  ^ ;  vii.  Ger- 
trude ;  and  viii.  Melvin  ^  Flournoy. 
ii.  WilHam  Stanhope  *^  Flournoy,  b.  December  23,   1845 ; 


364  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR   KIN 

entered  the  C.  S.  A.,  aged  17  years  and  6  months, 
and  served  to  the  end  of  the  war ;  a  dentist  by  pro- 
fession ;  he  resides  at  Charlotte  Court  House.  He  m., 
in  1871,  Bettie  A.  Wilson,  daughter  of  Daniel  Wilson 
and  his  wife,  EHzabeth  Eidson,  of  Augusta  County, 
Va.,  and  has  issue:  i.  Bessie  BJ ;  ii.  Helen  ^;  iii. 
Mary  ^ ;  and  iv.  Isabel  Cabell  ^  Flournoy. 
iii.  Ann  CabeU^  Flournoy,  b.  1848;   d.  1848. 


57.  WiUiam  Jordan^  Cabell,  born  November  14,  1789. 
In  1801,  he  was  at  Rev.  Matthew  Lyle's  school  in  Prince 
Edward  with  his  cousins,  Sam  and  William,  sons  of  Col. 
Samuel  J.  Cabell.  On  April  7,  1802,  Mr.  Lyle  wrote  to 
his  father  :  "  School  will  again  commence  May  3.  WiUiam 
has  commenced  to  read  Latin,"  etc.  "  November  25, 1803, 
Lexington,  Va.  Received  from  Wm.  J.  Cabell  $8.33 
for  one  session's  tuition,  ending  next  April.  Wm.  Willson, 
Treasurer  Washington  Academy."  He  continued  at  this 
academy,  boarding  with  Rev.  George  A.  Baxter,  until 
1807.  June  23,  1805,  he  wrote  to  his  "  Honored  Father  " 
from  Washington  Academy  about  the  lottery  drawing  and 
his  studies  :  "  Mr.  Baxter  has  returned,  and  it  is  supposed 
has  obtained  the  sum  of  fifteen  hundred  dollars.  Cousins 
Sam  and  William  are  well.  The  number  of  students,  at 
present,  is  fifty  odd,"  etc.  After  leaving  school  he  went 
into  the  mercantile  business  with  his  uncle,  Mr.  Robert 
Rives,  and  soon  after  he  writes  to  his  father  from  Milton, 
in  Albemarle  :  "  I  find  it  to  be  one  of  the  best  schools  I 
ever  was  at,  —  a  free  intercourse  with  the  people,  besides 
innumerable  other  advantages,"  etc.  [I  have  again  gone 
into  an  outline  of  "  the  schooling,"  to  show  the  plan  which 
obtained  in  this  part  of  Vii-ginia  in  the  olden  time  ;  namely, 
first,  to  give  the  boy  a  good  rudimentary  education  from 
books,  and  then,  when  he  was  not  intended  for  one  of  the 
professions,  a  good  practical  education  from  the  people,  — 
in  the  sheriff's  office,  the  surveyor's  office,  behind  the  mer- 
chant's counter,  etc.]     He  was  afterwards  in   business  in 


THE   FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  365 

Lynchburg  and  Richmond,  and  finally  settled  down  to 
farming  in  Nelson.  He  died  at  "  Union  Hill,"  June  26, 
1819,  unmarried. 


58.  Mary  EHzabeth  ^  CabeU,  born  December  3,  1791 ; 
married,  April  11,  1811,  at  Union  HiU,  Dr.  George  Calla- 
way, of  Bedford  County.  They  Hved  first  in  Lynchburg, 
Va.,  on  the  estate  inherited  from  his  father,  including 
"  lands  and  Mills  [since  Langhorne's],  near  Lynchburg, 
held  in  co-partnership  with  James  Steptoe,  Esquire,  with  aU 
my  lots  and  other  estate  in  the  towns  of  Madison  and 
Lynchburg."  (Extract  from  his  father's  will.)  These 
lands  lay  in  the  fork  between  Blackwater  Creek  and  James 
River ;  a  good  portion  of  it  is  now  in  the  corporation  of 
the  city  of  Lynchburg.  Her  husband  sold  out  most  of  his 
interests  in  and  near  Lynchburg  along  about  1818 ;  re- 
moved to  Nelson  ;  lived  temporarily  at  "  Colleton,"  while 
the  "  Glenmore  "  house  was  being  built,  on  the  estate  partly 
given  to  her  by  her  father,  and  partly  purchased  by  her 
husband  from  Mr.  Jesse  Irvine.  They  had  been  residing  in 
then*  new  home  only  a  few  years  when  her  husband  died 
there,  on  September  28,  1822.  Her  father  died  November 
22  following.  As  one  of  the  results  of  the  Revolution,  and 
of  the  prejudices  aroused  thereby,  the  Church  of  England 
had  fallen  under  the  bann  as  beino;  Eng-lish.  The  old 
members  thereof  had  gradually  gone  into  other  denomina- 
tions. There  had  been  no  regular  service  in  the  parish 
since  the  Rev.  WiUiam  Crawford  (the  grandfather  of  the 
second  wife  of  the  late  Commodore  CorneHus  Vanderbilt, 
of  New  York)  left  in  1812.  These  deaths  had  a  marked 
influence  on  the  family  connection ;  a  desire  was  created  in 
the  hearts  of  some  to  revive  ao-ain  the  church  of  their  fore- 
fathers.  In  time  a  church  was  bmlt  on  the  lands  of  Mrs. 
Callaway,  near  the  pubHc  road,  and  in  the  gap  on  the 
northwest  side  of  the  Buffalo  Ridge,  which,  during  its  exist- 
ence, was  known  as  Callaway's  Church.  It  was  the  suc- 
cessor to  the  old  Revolutionary  church  in  Key's  Gap,  where 


366  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

the  Baptists  now  have  a  church  called  Faii-mont.  The  first 
service  in  this  new  church  was  in  March,  1828.  The  first 
minister  was  the  Rev.  Charles  H.  Page,  who  married  a 
dau<rhter  of  WiUiam  S.  Cra^vford  (a  brother  to  Rev.  Charles 
Crawford,  of  Amherst,  and  first  cousin  to  Hon.  William  H. 
Crawford,  of  Georgia),  who  was  first  cousin  to  the  last 
minister,  the  Rev.  WiUiam  Crawford.  The  first  members 
were  Mrs.  Callaway,  her  mother  (Ann  Cabell),  her  brother 
Mayo  and  his  wife.  Col.  Alexander  Brown  and  his  wife, 
Mrs.  George  W.  Cabell,  and  Miss  Peggy  Rives,  —  eight  in 
all.  And  this  was  the  new  beginning  of  the  Episcopal 
Church  in  Nelson.  Mrs.  Callaway  died  August  20,  1867, 
at  "  Glenmore,"  in  Nelson  County,  Va.  "She  possessed 
all  the  admirable  traits  which  have  characterized  her  dis- 
tinguished name  and  race.  Descended  by  father  and  mo- 
ther from  an  ancestry  whose  deeds  have  made  immortal 
the  name  of  our  loved  Virginia,  and  born  at  a  period  when 
they  still  controlled  her  destinies.  ...  In  early  life  a 
widow,  and  following  in  quick  succession  her  children  to 
the  tomb.  ...  In  the  providence  of  God,  it  became  her 
duty  to  rear  the  children  of  others,  and  with  a  mother's 
love  and  tenderness  she  devoted  herself  to  the  duty.  Her 
Christian  principle  never  wavered ;  bravely,  resolutely,  and 
in  the  trust  of  God,  she  bent  herself  to  the  task." 

Dr.  George  Callaway  was  a  son  of  Col.  James  Callaway, 
of  Bedford  County,  Va.  (by  his  second  wife,  EHzabeth 
Early;  see  No.  121),  who  was  born  December  21,  1736; 
served  in  the  French  and  Indian  War ;  built  the  first  iron- 
works above  Lynchburg,  and  also  owned  and  operated  lead- 
mines.  His  son-in-law,  Hary  Innes  (afterwards  a  judge  in 
Kentucky),  was  his  superintendent  of  these  mines  for  sup- 
plying the  patriot  armies  of  the  Revolution  with  these 
materials  of  war.^  He  was  colonel  and  afterwards  county 
lieutenant  of  Bedford  during  the  Revolution,  and  was  con- 
stantly employed  in  all  that  pertained  to  those  important 

1  Ramsay's  Annals  of  Tennessee,  pp.  69,  151,  191 ;  Green's  History  of  the 
Families  of  Kentucky,  pp.  193-195. 


THE  FOUNDER'S   GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  367 

offices.  In  1780,  cooperating  with  Col.  William  Preston, 
Col.  Charles  Lynch,  Capt.  Robert  Adams,  and  other  faithful 
citizens,  he  suppressed  a  conspiracy  against  the  common- 
wealth by  measures  not  "  strictly  warranted  by  law,  although 
justifiable  from  the  imminence  of  the  danger."  The  con- 
spirators (Tories)  were  tried  before  a  sort  of  drumhead 
court-martial.  Col.  Charles  Lynch  acting  as  judge,  and  were 
condemned  to  be  punished  in  various  ways.  This  was  the 
origin  in  our  Statutes  of  the  term  "  Lynch  Law."  *  Col. 
James  Callaway  died  near  New  London,  Campbell  County, 
Va.,  November  1,  1809.  He  was  a  son  of  Col.  WiUiam 
Callaway,  the  founder  of  New  London,  county  lieutenant  of 
Bedford  during  the  French  and  Indian  War  (by  his  wife, 
Ehzabeth  TiUy),  and  brother  to  Col.  Richard  CaUaway,  of 
Kentucky. 

5^.  Mrs.  Mary  Ehzabeth  *  CabeU  Callaway  had  issue  :  — 
i.  WiUiam  James  ^  CaUaway,  b.  1812 ;  d.  1813. 
ii.  George  ^  Callaway,   b.  December  1,  1813 ;    edu- 
cated at  Hampden  Sidney  CoUege,  1831 ;    d. 
January  1,  1839  ;  unmarried. 

227.  iii.  Paul  Carrington  ^  Callaway. 

iv.  Ann  EHza  CaUaway,  b.  1817 ;  d.  1832. 
V.  Fayette  CaUaway,  b.  1819 ;  d.  1837. 

228.  vi.  Sarah    CabeU  ^   Callaway,   m.  Robert   L.   Brown 

(283). 
vii.  Elvira  Henry  CaUaway,  b.  January  13,  1822 ;  d. 
May  28,  1846  ;  unmarried.  I  have  an  obit- 
uary notice  of  her  beginning,  "  Too  much  can- 
not be  said  in  praise  of  the  many  good  quaH- 
ties  that  adorned  the  hfe  and  character  of  this 
lovely  young  girl." 

227.  Paul  Carrington  ^  CaUaway,  born  February  8,  1815  ; 
educated  at  Hampden  Sidney,  and  the  University  of  Vir- 
ginia ;  practiced  medicine  in  the  old  CabeU  neighborhood 
in  Nelson  from  1835  to  his  death  in  May,  1876.     He  mar- 

^  See  Hening's  Statutes  at  Large,  vol.  xi.  pp.  134, 135. 


368  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

ried,  March  16,  1842,  Addisonia,  daughter  of  Nathaniel 
Manson,  of  Bedford  County,  Va.  She  siu-vived  hun  many 
years,  and  died  in  January,  1892.  Her  mother,  Salhe 
Alexander,  was  the  daughter  of  Robert  Alexander  (by  his 
wife,  Ann  Austin,  of  Elk  Island,  a  great-granddaughter  of 
Col.  William  Callaway,  of  Bedford),  for  many  years  clerk 
of  Bedford  County  when  Campbell  was  a  part  of  Bedford, 
the  son  of  Robert  Alexander  (the  brother  of  Archibald 
Alexander),  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Dublin,  who 
emigrated  to  the  valley  of  Virginia  and  established  there 
the  classical  school  which  has  developed  into  the  Washing- 
ton and  Lee  University.  Mrs.  Callaway's  father,  Nathaniel 
Manson,  was  son  of  Peter  Manson,  of  Dinwiddle,  by  his 
wife,  Lucy  Clayton,  a  granddaughter  of  John  Clayton 
(1693-1773),  the  botanist.     (See  24.) 

227.  Dr.  Paul  Carrington^  and  A.  E.  D.  Manson  Calla- 
way had  issue :  — 
i.  Ehza  Cabell  ^  Callaway,  b.  February  23,  1844 ;  m.,  Jan- 
uary 10,  1865,  William  B.  Hubard,  of  Buckingham 
County,  Va.  [son  of  Robert  T.  Hubard  (by  his  wife, 
Susan  BoUing,  daughter  of  Linnaeus,  son  of  Col. 
Robert  Boiling,  of  Chellowe),  son  of  Dr.  James  T. 
Hubard  (by  his  wife,  Susan,  daughter  of  Dr.  Edmund, 
son  of  Capt.  John  Wilcox),  son  of  Col.  WiUiam  Hub- 
ard and  his  wife,  Frances  Thruston].  He  d.  in  1884, 
leaving  issue :  i.  Paul  Carrington  ^ ;  ii.  Eliza  Calla- 
way^; iii.  Susan  Markham^  [m.,  November  3,  1890, 
Rev.  George  S.  Somerville,  and  has :  i.  Churchill 
Knox  ^  Somerville]  ;  iv.  Addis  ^ ;  v.  Louisa  ^ ;  and  vi. 
Anna  Hubard. 
ii.  Mary  Lee  Callaway. 

iii.  Sarah  Brown  ^  Callaway,  b.  February  1,  1850 ;  m.,  Sep- 
tember 17,  1874,  at  Montezuma,  to  F.  Key  Meade,  of 
Clarke,  a  grandson  of  Bishop  William  Meade.  She 
died  November  20,  1884,  leaving  issue  :  i.  Addis 
Carrington  '^  ("  received  from  the  University  of  Vir- 
ginia a  diploma  for  mathematics  in  June,  1894,  being 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     369 

one  of  the  few  young  ladies  to  whom  that  distinction 
has  been  awarded  ") ;  ii.  Francis  Key  ^  (appointed  to 
West  Point  in  1894) ;  iii.  Paul  Carrington  "' ;  iv.  Wil- 
liam Page  ^ ;  and  v.  Everard  Kidder  ^  Meade. 
iv.  George  Carrington  ^  Callaway,  b.  June  1,  1853 ;  a  grad- 
uate of  the  Medical  College  in  Baltimore ;  has  suc- 
ceeded to  his  father's  practice  in  Nelson.  He  m., 
June  13,  1888,  at  the  residence  of  her  father  in  King 
William  County,  Martha  Waller  Aylett,  daughter  of 
Col.  William  R.  Aylett,  and  has  issue :  i.  Alice  Ay- 
lett ^ ;  ii.  George  Carrington " ;  and  iii.  William  R. 
Aylett^  Callaicay. 


59.  Clementina^  Cabell,  born  February  26,  1794;  mar- 
ried, at  Union  Hill,  June  29,  1815,  Jessie  Irvine,  of  Bed- 
ford County,  and  died  at  "  Otter,"  the  residence  of  her  hus- 
band, near  the  famous  "  Peaks  of  Otter,"  June  12,  1841. 
Her  husband,  Jessie  Irvine,  was  born  in  Bedford  County, 
Va.,  in  1792 ;  educated  at  Washington  Academy,  1810- 
1811 ;  and  died  February  2,  1876.  "  He  had  been  a  con- 
sistent member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  for  nearly  fifty 
years.  Was  a  modest,  retiring,  reticent  man,  a  successful 
farmer;  distinguished  for  great  integrity  and  purity  of 
character."  He  was  the  son  of  William  Irvine  (and  his 
wife,  Martha  Burton),  who  died  in  Bedford  in  1829. 
Among  the  early  settlers  of  Bedford  County  were  three 
brothers,  David,  Christopher,  and  William  Irvine,  who  are 
said  to  have  come  originally  from  Ireland,  i.  e.,  to  have 
been  Scotch-Irish.  The  date  of  David's  death  I  do  not 
know.  Christopher  died  in  1769.  William  died  in  1767, 
and  his  widow  married  Robert  Cowan,  who  was,  I  believe, 
of  the  same  family  as  the  noted  William  Cowan,  who  was 
the  opposing  lawyer  to  Patrick  Henry  in  the  celebrated 
beef  case  of  Hook  v.  Venable.  Christopher,  who  died  in 
1769,  had  a  son  William,  who  is  mentioned  in  his  will ;  but 
the  William  who  died  in  1829  is  said  to  have  been  the  son 
of  the  first  William,  who  died  in  1767.     Capt.  Christopher 


370  THE   CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

and  Col.  William  Irvine,  who  removed  to  Kentucky  about 
1779,  were  sons  of  one  of  the  three  emigrant  brothers. 
59.  Mrs.  Clementina  ^  Irvine  had  issue  :  — 

229.  i.  William  Cabell^  Irvine. 

ii.  Martha  °    Irvine,    d.    infant  at   White  Sulphur 
Springs. 

230.  iii.  Ann  C.''  Irvine. 

iv.  Elvira  Bruce  ^  Irvine,  d.  young. 

231.  V.  Edward  C.^  Irvine. 

232.  vi.  Sarah  Cabell^  Irvine. 

vii.  Patrick  Cabell^  Irvine,   b.   1827;  a  doctor;  d. 

October  18,  1854;  unmarried. 
viii.  Margaret^  Irvine,  b.  1829;  d.  1830. 

233.  ix.  Mary  Eliza  °  Irvine. 

234.  X.  Jesse  ^  Irvine. 

235.  xi.  Juliet  M.^  Irvine. 

236.  xii.  Margaret  Frances  ^  Irvine. 

229.  William  Cabell  ^  Irvine,  a  lawyer ;  married  by  Rev. 
Dr.  Harding,  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  to  Miss  Mary 
Ann  Lewis,  daughter  of  Meriwether  Lewis,  of  Milton, 
N.  C. ;  she  died  childless,  within  two  or  three  years  after 
her  marriage ;  he  removed  to  California,  and  died  there  in 
1851.  Meriwether  Lewis,  of  Milton,  N.  C,  was  a  son  of 
Robert  Lewis  (by  his  wife,  Ann  Ragland),  son  of  Maj.  John 
Lewis,  born  October  8,  1720  (by  his  wife,  Mildred  Lewis), 
son  of  Col.  Charles  Lewis,  born  October  13,  1696 ;  married. 
May  28,  1717,  Mary  Howell ;  settled  "  the  Bird  "  planta- 
tion in  Goochland  County,  April  17,  1733;  died  in  1779. 

Mildred  Lewis  (the  wife  of  Maj.  John  Lewis;  John 
Lewis,  the  lawyer,  married  her  sister,  Ann  Lewis)  was  a 
daughter  of  Col.  Robert  Lewis,  of  Belvoir,  the  first  county 
lieutenant  and  presiding  justice  (1742)  of  Louisa  County, 
by  his  wife  Jane,  daughter  of  Nicholas  Meriwether. 

Meriwether  Lewis,  the  explorer,  was  a  son  of  William 
Lewis  (died  November  14,  1779),  the  youngest  son  of  Col. 
Robert  Lewis,  of  Belvoir. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  371 

230.  Ann  C.^  Irvine  is  still  living.  She  married  (first), 
March  26,  1845,  "  David  Flournoy,  son  of  Dr.  David  Flonr- 
noy,  of  Prince  Edward  County,  Va.,  and  a  widower  with  six 
children  when  he  married  Ann  Irvine."  He  died  Novem- 
ber 11,  1846,  leaving  one  child  by  his  second  marriage :  — 
i.  Sarah  Irvine*^  Flournoy,  b.  1846  ;  d.  1849. 

Mrs.  Ann  C.^  Flournoy  married  (second),  March  12, 
1848,  J.  Overbey,  Esq.,  an  estimable  farmer  of  Prince  Ed- 
ward ;  "  a  descendant  of  an  old  English  family."  He  died 
several  years  ago,  leaving  issue  :  — 

237.  ii.  Mary  Landon  ^  Overbey. 

238.  iii.  William  Irvine  ^  Overbey. 

iv.  Patrick  Cabell  '^  Overbey,  b.  December  24,  1854. 

239.  V.  Martha  Jane  ^  Overbey. 

240.  vi.  Sarah  Asa^  Overbey. 

241.  vii.  Jessie  Irvine  '^  Overbey. 
viii.  Ellen  Peck^  Overbey. 

237.  Mary  Landon  ^  Overbey,  born  February  16,  1850 ; 
married,  May  15,  1867,  Archer  A.  Haskins,  of  Prince  Ed- 
ward County,  Va.  He  was  a  captain  in  the  3d  Virginia 
Cavalry,  C.  S.  A.,  and  a  son  of  Col.  E.  0.  Haskins,  who 
served  in  the  War  of  1812.  Issue :  i.  Nannie  ^ ;  ii.  Ed- 
ward Overbey  ' ;  iii.  William  Irvine  ^ ;  iv.  Thomas  CabeU  ^ ; 
v.  Jane  Ruth  ^ ;  vi.  Sallie  Opie  ^ ;  vii.  Mattie  ^ ;  and  viii. 
Jessie  Branch  ^  Haskins, 

238.  William  Irvine  '^  Overbey,  born  August  31,  1852  ; 
married  October  10,  1876,  Mattie,  daughter  of  Dr.  Ran- 
dolph V.  Barksdale,  of  Danville.  He  has  been  high  sheriff 
of  Pittsylvania  County,  Va.,  for  many  years ;  has  one  child : 
i.  Randolph  Irvine^  Overbey,  b.  March  5,  1878. 

239.  Martha  Jane  ^  Overbey,  born  June  6,  1856 ;  mar- 
ried, March  12,  1873,  Rev.  James  H.  Wiggins,  of  Bonham, 
Fannin  County,  Texas,  a  Presbyterian  minister;  educated 
at  Hampden  Sidney  and  the  Union  Theological  Seminary ; 
he  is  now  a  D.  D.,  and  has  issue :  i.  Delvach ;  ii.  JuKan ; 
iii.  James ;  iv.  Paul ;  v.  Katie  Cabell ;  and  vi.  Annie  Irvine 
Wiggins. 


372  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

240.  Sarah  Asa^  Overbey,  born  March  4,  1858;  mar- 
ried, December  13,  1875,  Richard  B.  Warriner,  Esq.,  of 
Amelia  County,  Va.,  son  of  Benjamin  Warriner  and  his 
wife,  Mary  Roulett.  Her  mother,  Mrs.  Roulett,  nee  Farmer, 
was  a  first  cousin  to  Henry  Clay.  Mrs.  Sallie  Asa  Warri- 
ner had  issue:  i.  Mary  CabeU^;  ii.  Ehzabeth  Overbey^;  iii. 
Jessie  Irvine  ^ ;  iv.  Henry  Bascombe  '  ;  v.  Arthur " ;  vi.  Ella 
Catherine  ^ ;  vii.  Willie  Anne "'  ;  viii.  James  Alfred  ^ ;  and 
ix.  Clementina^  Warriner. 

241.  Jessie '^  Overbey,  born  October  25,  1860;  married, 
April  12,  1890,  Miss  Patty  Moore,  of  Danville.  He  is  a 
hardware  merchant  in  Chatham,  Va. 

231.  Edward  C.^  Irvine,  married  (first),  December  16, 
1846,  Jane,  daughter  of  Meriwether  Lewis,  of  Milton,  N.  C, 
who  died  in  a  few  months  after  her  marriage ;  he  served  in 
the  2d  Virginia  Cavalry,  C.  S.  A.,  and  was  severely  wounded 
in  a  cavalry  fight  in  Fauquier  County,  in  the  faU  of  1863 ; 
he  represented  Campbell  County  in  the  Virginia  House  of 
Delegates  in  1873-1874 ;  is  still  living,  a  successful  farmer 
of  Campbell  County.  He  married,  secondly,  since  1875, 
Mrs.  Merrett,  and  has  thee  daughters :  i.  Eddie  ^ ;  ii.  Jes- 
sie ^ ;  and  iii.  Eliza  ^  Irvine. 

232.  Sarah  CabelP  Irvine,  born  October  17,  1825;  mar- 
ried, November  25, 1846,  by  Rev.  Jacob  Mitchell  (Presbyte- 
rian), to  Asa  D.  Dickinson,  of  Prince  Edward  County,  Va. 
He  was  born  at  "  Inverness,"  in  Nottoway  County,  Va., 
March  31,  1816 ;  prepared  for  college  by  David  Comfort ; 
graduated  at  Hampden  Sidney  College  in  September,  1836 ; 
attended  lectures  at  William  and  Mary  CoUege,  under 
Judge  Beverly  Tucker,  ''  in  law,"  and  under  President 
Thomas  R.  Dew,  in  "political  economy,"  in  1837  and  1838; 
located  at  Prince  Edward  Court  House  in  1838,  to  practice 
his  profession,  and  soon  attained  a  position  of  full  practice 
at  the  bar.  In  1844,  he  became  a  trustee  of  Hampden  Sid- 
ney College,  and  an  elder  in  the  college  church,  which  posi- 


THE  FOUNDER'S   GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  373 

tions  lie  continued  to  hold  during  life.  He  was  elected  (a 
Democrat)  to  the  Virginia  House  of  Delegates  in  1857, 
from  the  (Whig)  county  of  Prince  Edward,  receiving  every 
vote  cast  save  six.  In  1859,  he  was  reelected  to  the  same 
position  by  a  unanimous  vote.  In  1860,  he  was  elected  to 
the  Virginia  Senate  from  his  district,  receiving  every  vote 
cast  in  Prince  Edward  save  five,  in  Nottoway  save  twenty- 
five,  and  beating  his  opponent  in  his  native  county,  Lunen- 
burg, by  400  votes.  In  1863,  he  was  elected  to  the  Senate 
again  by  an  almost  unanimous  vote,  and  continued  in  the 
Senate  until  the  evacuation  of  Richmond.  He  was  the 
author  of  the  famous  "  Address  of  the  Virginia  Assembly 
to  the  Virginia  Soldiers,"  which  excited  their  admiration 
and  the  u-e  of  the  Federal  army,  and  occasioned  much  trial 
and  loss  to  him  when  the  Federals  reached  his  home, 
"  Springfield,"  in  Prince  Edward  County,  and  sacked  his 
house.  His  disabilities  were  removed  by  Congress  in  Feb- 
ruary, 1870.  In  March,  1870,  he  was  elected  judge  of  the 
Third  Virginia  Circuit,  receiving  every  vote  cast,  except 
eight  (colored  Republicans).  He  was  reelected  judge  of 
the  same  circuit  December  17,  1878,  receiving  every  vote 
cast  in  both  Houses  of  the  Assembly,  and  continued  in  that 
office  until  his  death  in  June,  1882.  He  was  one  of  the 
most  deservedly  popular  men  in  Virginia.  He  was  t^vice 
married,  and  had  issue  by  both  wives ;  his  first  wife  was 
Miss  Jane  Michaux.  He  was  a  son  of  Robert  Dickinson, 
by  his  wife,  Mary  Purnell  Dupuy,  daughter  of  Capt.  James 
Dupuy,  an  officer  of  the  Revolutionary  army,  and  a  promi- 
nent citizen  of  Nottoway,  which  county  he  represented  in 
the  state  legislature  for  twenty  consecutive  years.  He 
married  Mary  Purnell,  whose  nationality  I  do  not  know. 
His  father,  John  Bartholomew  Dupuy,  was  a  Huguenot, 
who  came  with  his  father  (Bartholomew,  at  one  time  an 
officer  of  the  guards  of  King  Louis  XIV.)  to  Virginia  in 
1700.1 

232.  Mrs.  Sarah  ^  Cabell  Dickinson  had  issue  :  — 

^  See  Virginia  Historical  Collection,  New  Series,  vol.  v.  pp.  151-154. 


374  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

i.  Jesse   Irvine  ^  Dickinson,  living  in  Chillicothe,  Texas ; 

farmer  and  stock  raiser. 
ii.  Clement  Cabell  '^  Dickinson,  living  in  Clinton,  Mo.  ; 
commonwealth's  attorney  for  Henry  County,  Mo.,  in 
1876 ;  m.  Mattie,  daughter  of  Judge  Parks,  of  Mis- 
souri, and  has  issue  :  i.  Clement  Parks'^ ;  ii.  Mary 
Cabell  ^ ;  and  iii.  Peyton  ^  (girl)  Dickinson. 

iii.  Thomas  Harris^  Dickinson,  living  in  Prince  Edward 
County  ;  owns  the  old  "  Springfield  "  homestead  ; 
high  sheriff  of  Prince  Edward  County. 

iv.  EHzabeth  Guerrant  ^  Dickinson. 
V.  Anna  Carrington  ^  Dickinson. 

vi.  Frances  Jane  ^  Dickinson,  d.  young. 

vii.  Frank  Watkins*^  Dickinson,  d.  young. 
viii.  Asa  Dupuy  ^  Dickinson,  living  in  Fort  Worth,  Texas ; 
farmer  and  stock  raiser ;  m.  Ella  Duncan,  of  Texas, 
and  has  issue :  i.  Robert  Carrington  ^ ;  ii.  Asa  Du- 
puy^; iii.  Chloe^ ;  and  iv.  Sallie  Irvine^  Dickinson. 

ix.  Sallie  Bruce  "^  Dickinson. 

X.  Mary  Seddon^  Dickinson,  m.  Rev.  J.  Horace  Lacy 
(Presbyterian),  residing  in  Florence,  Ala.,  and  has  : 
i.  James  Horace  ^ ;  and  ii.  Margaret  Graham  ^  Lacy. 

xi.  Charles  Bruce  ^  Dickinson,  d.  young. 

xii.  Juliet  Massie  '^  Dickinson,  m.  Rev.  Wilham  C.  Alexan- 
der (Presbyterian),  residing  in  Mt.  Airy,  N.  C,  and 
has  :  i.  Sallie  Cabell  ^ ;  ii.  Juliet  Dickinson  ^ ;  and 
iii.  William  C.^  Alexander. 

233.  Mary   Ehza^    Irvine   is    still   living;    she   married 
Phihp  D.  Christian,  a  merchant  and  tobacconist,  of  Lynch- 
burg, an  estimable  gentleman  and  a  deacon  in  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  ;  he  died  in  1877,  leaving  issue  ^ :  — 
i.  Irvine  ^  Christian,  hving  in  Lynchburg ;  merchant, 
ii.  Ida  ^  Christian,  m.  April  16,  1895,  in  Lynchburg,  Va., 

to  John  Braxton  Lake,  Jr.,  of  Hampton,  Va. 
iii.  CabeU«  Christian,  of  the  U.  S.  N. 
iv.  Fanny  ^  Christian  ;  died  young. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     375 

V.  Philip  ^  Christian, 
vi.  James  Ramsey^  Christian. 

234.  Jesse  ^  Irvine  was  captain  of  a  cavahy  company 
in  Colonel  Winston  Radford's  regiment,  C.  S.  A. ;  lost  a 
leg  in  a  gallant  charge  at  the  head  of  his  company  at 
Stevensburg,  Culpepper  County ;  after  the  war  married 
Miss  Margaret  Agnes,  daughter  of  Dr.  Paul  C.  Venable,  of 
Mecklenburg  County,  and  a  descendant  from  the  emigrant 
ancestors,  —  George  Carrington,  Abraham  Venable,  John 
Woodson,  Michaux,  Coles,  Tucker,  etc.  They  have  no 
children. 

235.  Juliet  M.  ^  Irvine  is  still  living  in  Lexington,  Va.  ; 
married  Rev.  David  W.  Shanks,  a  Presbyterian  minister  ; 
son  of  Colonel  Thomas  and  Grace  M.  Shanks.  He  was 
born  December  11,  1830,  in  Fincastle,  Botetourt  County, 
Va. ;  educated  at  New  London  Academy  and  Washington 
CoUege  ;  studied  law  at  the  University  of  Virginia  ;  but, 
decHning  the  practice,  in  1852  settled  in  Memphis,  Tenn., 
as  a  merchant ;  was  successful ;  married  Miss  Niles,  of 
Holly  Springs,  who  died  in  1858.  He  joined  the  Presby- 
terian Church ;  gave  up  a  lucrative  business,  and  in  October, 
1859,  entered  Union  Theological  Seminary,  at  Hampden 
Sidney,  to  prepare  for  the  ministry  in  that  church ;  mar- 
ried, secondly,  Miss  Juliet  M.  Irvine ;  licensed  to  preach  by 
Montgomery  Presbytery,  April  27,  1861,  and  continued  in 
the  active  ministry  until  1882,  when  ill-health  forced  him 
to  resign.  He  died  March  4,  1894.  The  degree  of  D.  D. 
was  conferred  upon  him  in  1881  by  Washington  and  Lee 
University.     He  had  issue  :  — 

i.  John^  Shanks. 

ii.  Grace  EUen  ^  Shanks, 
iii.  Dabney^  Shanks. 

iv.  David  W.  Shanks,  educated  at  Washington  and  Lee 
University,  living  in  California. 

V.  Margaret  Cabell''  Shanks. 


376  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

vi.  Eliza  McPlieeters  *^  Shanks, 
vii.  Juliet  Irvine  ^  Shanks. 
viii.  Cassie  Anderson  ^  Shanks. 
ix.  William  Carrington  *^  Shanks,  living  in  St.  Louis. 
X.  Jesse  Mayo  ^  Shanks, 
xi.  Philip  Thomas  ^  Shanks. 

236.  Margaret  Frances  ^  Irvine,  living  in  Lynchburg ; 
married,  in  1867,  by  Rev.  John  G.  Shepherson,  D.  D. 
(Presbyterian),  to  Thomas  Rosser,  of  Campbell  County,  a 
nephew  of  Gen.  Thomas  Rosser,  of  the  C.  S.  A.,  and  has 
issue  :  — 
i.  Fannie  Bland  ^  Rosser,  m.  Robert  Lee  Smith.     Issue  : 

i.  Annie  Thompson"  Smith, 
ii.  Clementina  Duffield  ^  Rosser,  m.   Thomas  Lee  Carter. 

Issue  :  i.  Thomas  Rosser  '  ;   and  ii.  Louise  "  Carter. 
iii.  EHza  Harrison  ^  Rosser. 
iv.  Annie  Juliet  ^  Rosser,  m.  Mr.  Abbie  Row. 


60.  Sarah  Carrington  '^  Cabell,  born  November  2,  1795  ; 
married,  by  Rev.  W.  S.  Reid,  at  "  Union  Hill,"  August  3, 
1826,  to  Dr.  Thomas  Massie,  and  died  June  19,  1831,  at 
"  Blue  Rock,"  her  residence,  in  Nelson  County,  Va.  Her 
husband  was  born  in  1783  ;  selected  the  practice  of  physic 
for  a  profession ;  was  bound  apprentice  to  the  celebrated 
Dr.  McCaw,  of  Richmond  ;  graduated  in  Philadelphia,  then 
went  to  Europe  and  spent  four  years  in  the  schools  of 
Edinborough,  London,  and  Paris  ;  on  his  return  to  Amer- 
ica settled,  in  October,  1807,  to  practice  his  profession  in 
Chillicothe,  the  then  capitol  of  Ohio,  where  his  father  and 
his  relatives.  Gen.  Nathaniel  and  Henry  Massie,  owned  large 
landed  interests.  He  finally  returned  to  Nelson  County, 
Va. ;  married  (first)  his  cousin.  Miss  Waller,  and  (second) 
Miss  Cabell,  aforesaid.  He  was  a  surgeon  in  the  War  of 
1812  ;  member  of  the  House  of  Delegates  1824-1827  and 
1829-1830 ;  member  of  the  Virginia  Convention  1829- 
1830 ;  a  trustee   of  Washington  CoUege ;    died  at  "  Blue 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     377 

Rock,"  May  7,  1864,  —  "a  most  polished,  Kterary,  and  in- 
teresting man."  His  father,  Major  Thomas  Massie,  was 
born  in  New  Kent  County,  August  22,  1747 ;  educated  at 
WiUiam  and  Mary  College  ;  a  captain  in  Revolutionary  ser- 
vice near  Williamsburg,  Va.,  spring  of  1775 ;  a  captain  in 
6th  Vir2"inia  Reg-iment  Continental  service,  winter  of  1775- 
1776  to  February  20,  1778,  when  he  was  promoted  major  ; 
in  the  northern  campaigns,  1776-1779,  generally  on  de- 
tached or  particular  service.     "  On  the  28th  day  of  June, 

1778  (an  intense  hot  day),  Gen.  Washington  ordered  Gen. 
Charles  Lee  to  attack  in  full  force.  This  the  said  Massie 
knows  to  be  the  fact,  the  orders  having  been  communicated 
verbally  by  Gen.  Washington  through  him  the  evening  be- 
fore." (Massie's  deposition.)  He  was  major  of,  and  for  a 
time  acting  colonel  of,  the  2d  Virginia  Regiment,  1778- 

1779  ;  aid-de-camp  to  Gen.  Nelson,  winter  of  1780-1781 
to  the  fall  of  Yorktown  ;  after  the  war  received  53333  acres 
of  land  in  the  States  of  Ohio  and  Kentucky  for  his  services 
as  major,  etc.  ;  and  was  a  member  of  the  Society  of  the 
Cincinnati.  He  moved  from  St.  Peter's  Parish,  New  Kent 
County,  about  1780,  to  Frederick  County,  and  thence  to 
old  Amherst  about  1803,  where  he  settled  on  a  tract  of 
3111  acres  on  the  upper  Tye  River,  —  a  part  of  the  old 
Rose  grant,  —  which  he  had  purchased  from  John  Rose  in 
1795.  This  land  lay  in  the  present  county  of  Nelson,  of 
which  county  he  was  one  of  the  first  magistrates  from  1808. 
He  married,  about  1780,  Sarah  Cocke.  He  died  at  "  Level 
Green,"  his  seat  in  Nelson,  February  2,  1834.  His  father, 
WiUiam  Massie  (married  Lucy  Macon,  who  afterwards  mar- 
ried Col.  Theodorick  Bland?)  was  a  son  of  Capt.  Thomas 
Massie,  of  St.  Peter's  Parish,  New  Kent  County,  who  died 
about  1740.  The  Massies  came  from  Cheshire  County, 
Enpfland. 

Sarah  Cocke  (wife  of  Major  Thomas  Massie)  was  born 
at  "  Turkey  Island,"  March  8,  1760,  and  died  at  "  Level 
Green,"  April  20,  1838.  She  was  sister  to  William  Cocke 
and  Bowler  Cocke  (who    married  Tabitha   Fry,  a  grand- 


378  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

daughter  of  Col.  Joshua  Fry),  and  daughter  of  Bowler 
Cocke,  of  "  Turkey  Island,"  Henrico  (born  March  7, 172f )  ; 
son  of  BoAvler  Cocke  (born  169^),  son  of  Richard  Cocke 
(by  his  wife  Anne  Bowler),  son  of  Richard  Cocke,  Sr.,  of 
Bremo,  the  son  of  Col.  Richard  Cocke,  of  "  Malvern  Hills," 
Henrico  County,  Va.,  who  emigrated  from  Leeds,  York- 
shire, England,  prior  to  1636.  He  was  sometmie  county 
Heutenant  of  Henrico,  and  was  a  member  of  the  House  of 
Burgesses  1644—1654.  The  Cocke  family  was  alHed  by 
marriage  to  the  family  of  Thomas,  Lord  De  la  Warr,  first 
lord  governor  and  captain-general  of  Virginia. 
60.  Mrs.  Sarah  C*  Massie  had  issue  :  — 

i.  Ann  C.^  Massie,  b.  August  10,  1827 ;    d.  Febru- 
ary, 1829. 
242.  ii.  Patrick  Cabell^  Massie. 

iii.  Paul  Massie,  b.  June  5,  1831 ;    educated  at  Uni- 
versity of  Virginia,  1848  ;  d.  1894 ;  unmarried. 
242.  Patrick  Cabell  ^  Massie,  born  January  8,  1829  ;  ed- 
ucated at  Washington  College,  1845-1846 ;  married,  June 
18,  1857,  Miss  Susan  C.  Withers,  a  sister  of  ex-Senator 
Robert    E.   Withers,    of    Vu-ginia,    and    daughter    of  Dr. 
Robert  W.  Withers  and  his  Tvdfe,  Susan  Dabney  Alexander. 
Mr.  P.  C.  Massie  was  a  very  successful  farmer  and  man 
of  affairs.     He   died  at  his   home,  "  Three    Springs,"    in 
Nelson  County,  September  29,  1877,  ha^dng  had  issue  :  — 
i.  Robert  Withers'^  Massie,   b.  April  24,  1858  ;  m.,  No- 
vember 11,  1885,  Mattie  W.  Manson  (daughter  of 
Nathaniel  C.  Manson  and  Polly  Cary  Wilson,  his 
wife).     Issue  :  i.    Robert   W." ;    ii.   Nathaniel  M." ; 
and  iii.  Catherine  Douglas  ^  3Iassie. 
ii.  Thomas^  Massie,  b.  1860;  died  1863. 
iii.  Patrick  Cabell  ^  Massie,  b.  August  27, 1862  ;  attorney 
at  law  ;  m.,  August  17,  1893,  Elizabeth  McCullough 
Kirkman,  a  great-granddaughter  of  Sarah  Moore, 
by  her  first  husband,  Samuel  McCuUoch,  uncle  of 
Gen.  Benjamin  McCidloch,  of  Texas,  C.  S.  A.     Is- 
sue :  i.  Joel  White  '  Massie. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  379 

iv.  Thomas  ^  Massie,  b.  May  14,  1864. 

V.  Thornton  L.^  Massie,  b.  October  1,  1866  ;  m.,  June 
19,  1889,  Mary  Kent  Nicholson  (daughter  of  Wilton 
F.  Nicholson  and  Mary  Kent  Bentley,  his  wife). 
Issue  ;  i.   Patrick  Cabell ' ;  and  ii.  Mary   Bentley  ^ 

3:£(XSS16. 

vi.  Douglas  Gray '  Massie,  b.  1868 ;  d.  1883. 
vii.  Withers'  Massie,  b.  April  17,  1870. 
viii.  Susan  Catherine,*^  b.  September  10,  1872. 


61.  Edward  A."*  Cabell,  born  at  Union  Hill,  February 
9,  1797  ;  educated  at  William  and  Mary  College,  and  stud- 
ied law  partly  under  Judge  St.  George  Tucker ;  practiced 
the  profession  for  a  while,  but  having  inherited  from  his 
father  a  large  landed  estate  lying  in  Amherst  County, 
he  ultimately  turned  his  attention  to  farming.  He  was 
married,  March  14,  1823,  at  the  residence  of  the  bride's 
j)arents,  near  New  Glasgow,  by  Rev.  WiUiam  S.  Reid,  of 
Lynchburg,  to  Mary  Rice  Garland.  He  was  a  vestryman 
of  Lexington  Parish  from  1824  for  many  years ;  was 
colonel  of  Amherst  County  ;  member  of  the  House  of  Del- 
egates from  1837  to  1840  inclusive ;  was  appointed  to  a 
federal  position  in  the  General  Land  Office  (then  a  part  of 
the  Treasury  Department)  in  the  fall  of  1841,  by  President 
Tyler  ;  advanced  to  the  position  of  chief  clerk  of  the  Gen- 
eral Land  Office  by  President  Fillmore,  and  was  unanimously 
confirmed  by  the  U.  S.  Senate.  He  continued  in  this  office 
until  1861.  His  office  brought  him  much  in  contact  with 
members  of  Congress  from  the  West,  among  whom  was 
Mr.  Lincoln,  to  whom  he  became  much  attached,  and  of 
whom  he  always  spoke  with  much  respect.  When  Mr. 
Lincoln  became  President,  he  asked  Col.  CabeU  personally 
to  remain  in  his  federal  office,  but  he  did  not  think  that 
he  could  conscientiously  take  the  required  oath,  resigned, 
and  returned  to  Virginia  to  share  her  fortunes  in  the  im- 
pending war.  He  died  at  Norwood,  the  residence  of  his 
nephew,  William  D.  Cabell,  March  3,  1869,  and  was  buried 


380  THE   CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

at  "  Union  Hill."  "  His  kind  and  genial  temper  made  him 
warm  personal  friends  ;  while  his  integrity  and  fidelity  to 
trusts  imposed,  and  his  manly  independence,  gave  to  the 
pubHc  the  fullest  confidence  in  his  character  and  capacity." 
His  wife  Avas  born  in  Amherst  County,  Va.,  May  10,  1804 ; 
died  at  Arundel-on-the-Bay,  Maryland,  in  September,  1893, 
and  was  buried  by  her  husband's  side,  at  "  Union  Hill." 
She  was  the  daughter  of  Hon.  David  Shepherd  Garland,  a 
member  of  the  Virginia  House  of  Delegates  from  Amherst 
for  several  terms,  and  of  the  U.  S.  House  of  Representa- 
tives from  Amherst  district  in  1809  to  1811.  He  died  in 
1841,  aged  72.  He  was  married  in  1795,  by  Rev.  Charles 
Crawford,  to  Jane  Henry  Meredith  (1776-1856),  a  daughter 
of  Col.  Samuel  Meredith  and  his  second  wife,  Jane  Henry 
(born  June  19,  1738 ;  died  August  12,  1818),  a  sister  to 
Patrick  Henry,  the  orator.  His  parents  were  William  Gar- 
land (born  1746  ;  died  in  Staunton  in  1777),  and  Annie 
Shepherd,  daughter  of  Christopher  Shepherd,  who  died  an 
old  man  in  Albemarle  in  1779.  William  Garland  Avas  a  son 
of  James  Garland,  the  first  of  the  name  to  settle  in  Albe- 
marle County,  by  his  wife,  Mary  Rice,  of  Hanover,  whose 
mother  was  a  Miss  Howlett. 

Col.  Samuel  Meredith  was  born  in  Hanover  in  1732  ; 
captain  of  a  company  in  Col.  WilHam  Bryd's  regmient, 
French  and  Indian  War,  1758.  July  11,  1774,  2000  acres 
were  surveyed  for  him  for  services  in  that  war,  but  no 
grant  was  issued  to  him  from  the  crown.  In  1775,  he  was 
captain  of  the  indej^endent  company  of  Hanover  ;  May  2, 
resigned  the  captaincy  to  his  brother-in-law,  Patrick  Henry ; 
May  4,  a  witness  to  Henry's  receipt  to  Corbin  for  £330, 
"  as  a  compensation  for  the  gunpowder "  taken  by  Dun- 
more.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Convention  which  met 
December  1,  1775  ;  was  appointed  colonel  of  the  Fu'st 
Battahon  of  Minute-Men  by  the  Convention  of  May,  1776. 
In  1778,  he  subscribed  £500  to  the  old  Washington  Henry 
Academy  of  Hanovertown,  and  was  for  several  years  presi- 
dent of  the  Board  of  Trustees.     December   1,  1779,  Gov. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     381 

Thomas  Jefferson  granted  him  the  lands  in  Kentucky 
which  had  been  surveyed  for  him  July  11,  1774.  He 
bought  "  Winton,"  near  New  Glasgow,  in  Amherst  County, 
Va.,  from  Col.  Joseph  Cabell  (date  of  first  bond  April  1, 
1779),  and  moved  there  late  in  1779  or  early  in  1780.  He 
had  long  been  a  vestryman  of  St.  Paul's  Parish,  Hanover. 
On  December  29,  1780,  the  vestry  held  a  meeting  "  to 
elect  a  vestryman  in  the  room  of  Samuel  Meredith,  Gent, 
who  has  removed  out  of  the  parish." 

"  January  12,  1781.  Lent  Col.  Samuel  Meredith  my 
smallsword,  nicely  silver-mounted."  (Col.  Wilham  Cabell 
in  his  Diary.)  Col.  Sam  was  then  in  service  with  the 
Amherst  miHtia.  In  1785  and  1786,  Gov.  Patrick  Henry 
granted  him  additional  lands  in  Kentucky  for  services  in 
the  French  and  Indian  War.  He  was  one  of  the  trustees 
of  Warminster  Academy  from  1791 ;  was  long  a  justice  of 
the  peace  of  Amherst,  and  for  some  years  before  his  death 
the  presiding  justice  ;  was  the  high  sheriff  in  1807.  His 
will  is  dated  August  6,  1808.  He  was  buried  at  Winton, 
and  his  tombstone  bears  the  following  inscription :  "  Here 
lie  the  remains  of  Col.  Samuel  Meredith,  who  departed  this 
life  December  22,  1808,  aged  76  years."  He  was  the  son 
of  Samuel  Meredith  the  elder,  of  St.  Paul's  Parish,  Han- 
over, who  died  April  14,  1762,  whose  second  wife  and  widow 
was  the  second  wife  of  Dr.  William  Cabell,  the  emigrant. 
61.  Col.  Edward  A.^  Cabell  had  issue  :  — 

William  Meredith  ^  Cabell. 

David  Shepherd  ^  Garland  Cabell. 

Patrick  Henry  ^  Cabell. 

Edward  Paul  ^  Cabell,  d.  infant. 

Jane  Meredith  ^  Cabell. 

Mayo  ^  CabeU,  d.  infant. 
247.  vii.  Paul   Carrington^   Cabell,  —  all  born  near  New 
Glasgow,  in  Amherst  County,  Va. 

243.  WilHam  M.^  CabeU,  born  December  2,  1823  ;  edu- 
cated at  Randolph  Macon  College  ;  commenced  the  practice 


243. 

i. 

244. 

ii. 

245. 

iii. 

iv. 

246. 

V. 

vi. 

382  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

of  law  in  Nelson  County  in  1844  ;  removed  to  Lynchburg 
a  few  years  after,  and  practiced  in  partnership  with  the 
late  Judge  James  Garland  for  three  years  ;  returned  to 
Nelson  ;  practiced  in  partnership  with  his  brother,  D.  S.  G. 
Cabell,  1853-1859  ;  represented  Nelson  in  the  House  of 
Delegates,  1855-1856  ;  removed  to  Buckingham  in  1860  ; 
served  in  the  C.  S.  A.  in  Gen.  Huger's  command,  and  after 
in  the  1st  Virginia  Regiment,  Kemper's  Brigade ;  member 
of  the  Virginia  House  of  Delegates  from  Buckingham  and 
Cumberland,  1865-1867 ;  a  Tilden  elector  in  1876 ;  an 
able  lawyer  and  eloquent  advocate  at  the  bar  and  on  the 
hustings.  He  married,  in  1867,  Miss  Mildred  K.  Eldridge, 
daughter  of  Rolfe  Eldridge,  deceased.  They  are  still  liv- 
ing.    They  have  no  children. 

244.  David  S.  G.^  Cabell,  born  June  23,  1825 ;  edu- 
cated at  Princeton,  N.  J.,  w^here  he  took  the  degree  of  A. 
B. ;  studied  law  at  the  University  of  Vu-ginia,  1852-1853  ; 
practiced  law  with  his  brother  in  Nelson,  1853-1859 ; 
entered  the  C.  S.  A.  as  a  private  in  Company  H,  49th  Vir- 
ginia ;  served  through  the  war ;  represented  the  counties 
of  Nelson  and  Rockbridge  in  the  state  senate  two  sessions, 
1865-1867  ;  an  instructor  at  the  Norwood  High  School, 
1871-1872 ;  a  contributor  to  many  newspapers  and  maga- 
zines, much  both  of  a  political  and  Hterary  character.  He 
died  unmarried,  at  the  residence  of  his  brother  William, 
in  Buckingham,  in  1893,  and  is  buried  there. 

245.  Patrick  Henry '  Cabell,  born  May  10,  1827  ;  edu- 
cated at  the  Richmond  Medical  College,  and  in  the  medical 
department  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania.  Located 
as  a  physician  in  Selma,  Ala. ;  was  Confederate  post  sur- 
geon at  Selma  during  the  war  ;  contributed  to  the  medical 
journals  of  his  day,  and  attained  to  eminence  in  his  pro- 
fession. He  married,  October  19,  1856,  Pattie  W.  Aylett, 
daughter  of  Col.  Philip  Aylett,  of  King  WiUiam  County, 
a  grandson  of  Patrick  Henry,  the  orator.     They  had  four 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  383 

children,  all  of  whom  died  in  infancy,  —  three  of  them  of 
scarlet  fever  —  within  ten  days  of  each  other.  Dr.  P.  H. 
Cabell  died  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  while  on  a  visit,  October 
19, 1865. 

246.  Jane  M.^  Cabell,  born  January  8,  1830 ;  married, 
October  18,  1853,  Lieut.  Nicholas  H.  Vanzandt,  U.  S.  N. 
He  had  served  in  the  Mexican  War.  In  1861,  he  resigned ; 
entered  the  C.  S.  N.  as  captain  ;  served  at  Norfolk,  Charles- 
ton, S.  C,  etc. ;  was  captured  and  imprisoned  for  a  while 
at  Johnson's  Island.  He  is  the  son  of  Nicholas  Biddle 
Vanzandt  and  his  wife,  Maria  Wood  Southall,  daughter 
of  Col.  Stephen  Southall,  of  the  Revolutionary  army,  and 
his  wife,  Martha  Wood,  daughter  of  Col.  Valentine  Wood, 
of  Wood\alle,  Goochland  County,  Va.,  and  his  wdfe,  Lucy 
Henry,  a  sister  to  Patrick  Henry,  the  orator.  His  father, 
Nicholas  Biddle  Vanzandt,  was  the  son  of  Jacobus  Van- 
zandt (whose  ancestors  came  from  Holland  in  1621  and 
settled  on  Manhattan  Island,  and  founded  New  Amsterdam), 
and  his  Tv4fe,  Susan  Scull,  of  Philadelphia.  Captain  and 
Mrs.  Vanzandt  now  reside  in  Georgetown,  D.  C.     Issue  :  — 

i.  William  CabeU"^  Vanzandt,  b.  1854  ;  d.  1872. 

ii.  Henry  Meredith  ^  Vanzandt ;  d.  young. 

iii.  Elvira  Bruce  *^  Vanzandt ;  d.  young. 

iv.  Mary  Garland  ^  Vanzandt,  b.  March  22,  1860  ;  m.,  in 
October,  1893,  Dr.  Edwin  Lee  Morgan,  of  Washing- 
ton, D.  C. 
V.  Jeanie  Cabell  ^  Vanzandt,  b.  November  6,  1866 ;  m.. 
May  8,  1893,  at  the  Chiu'ch  of  the  Transfigura- 
tion, New  York,  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  George  H.  Hough- 
ton, to  Francis  J.  O'Neill,  of  Washington,  D.  C,  a 
leading  newspaper  man  ;  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Governors  of  the  National  Capital  Press  Club,  etc. 

247.  Paul  Carrington'  CabeU,  b.  August  20,  1833;  was 
practicing  law  in  Kansas  at  the  beginning  of  the  late  war ; 
returned  to   Virginia  and  gave  his  services  to  his  native 


384  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

State ;  entered  the  C.  S.  A.  as  a  private  in  Company  H,  1st 
Vii'o-inia ;  was  afterwards  a  lieutenant ;  was  wounded  at 
"  Seven  Pines,"  "  Hewlett's  House,"  and  at  "  Gettysburg," 
in  the  charge  of  Pickett's  Division ;  was  captured  at  "  Five 
Forks,"  sent  to  Johnson's  Island,  and  was  released  in  June, 
1865.  He  died,  unmarried,  in  Richmond,  in  1881,  and 
was  buried  at  "  Union  Hill." 


62.  Paul  Carrington  ^  Cabell,  born  April  10, 1799  ;  edu- 
cated at  "  Union  Hill "  until  1813  ;  lived  with  Dr.  George 
Callaway  in  Lynchbm-g,  and  went  to  school  to  Holcombe 
and  Jones,  1813-1814,  and  to  John  Reid  in  1814-1815  ; 
studied  medicine  under  Dr.  Callaway.  I  do  not  know 
where  he  graduated,  but  he  was  quite  a  distinguished  phy- 
sician of  Amherst  County.  *  He  was  married,  June  12, 
1823,  by  Rev.  W.  S.  Reid,  to  Mary  B.  Irvine,  daughter  of 
WiUiam  Irvine,  of  Bedford  County,  Va. ;  a  vestryman  of 
Lexington  Parish ;  died  June  9,  183G,  and  was  biu-ied 
at  his  home.  Mountain  View,  in  Amherst.  "  An  elevated 
sense  of  propriety  made  him  careful  to  fulfill  his  engage- 
ments ;  to  a  mean  act  his  heart  descended  not ;  in  social 
intercourse  he  was  candid  and  decided ;  to  his  friends  he 
was  frank  and  devoted ;  in  the  relations  of  husband  and 
parent  he  was  tender  and  exemplary  ;  in  ministering  to  the 
sick  he  was  discrmiinating,  prudent,  prompt,  and  charita- 
ble, often  giving  his  professional  services  to  the  poor  with- 
out charge."  "  He  requested  that  nothing  more  should  be 
said  of  him  than  that  he  died  in  confident  hojDe  of  everlast- 
ing life  through  the  blood  of  the  Saviour."  His  wife,  who 
survived  him  many  years,  died  in  Lynchburg  in  Jidy,  1857, 
and  was  buried  at  "  Mountain  View."     They  had  issue  :  — 

248.  i.  Wm.  Irvine'  Cabell. 

249.  ii.  Ann  Carrington '  Cabell. 

iii.  Martha  Ehzabeth  Cabell ;  d.  young. 

250.  iv.  Sallie  Massie '  Cabell. 

V.  Martha  Burton'  CabeU,  b.  1833;  d.  1834. 

251.  vi.  Paul  Clement' CabeU. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  385 

248.  WiUiam  Irvine^  Cabell,  born  July  10,  1824;  edu- 
cated for  the  profession  of  medicine ;  succeeded  to  the 
practice  of  his  father ;  in  comparatively  early  life  attached 
himself  to  the  Episcopal  Church ;  became  a  vestryman  of 
Lexington  Parish,  Amherst  County;  died  at  his  home. 
Mountain  View,  September  11,  1855,  and  was  buried  there. 
He  never  married. 

249.  Anne  Carrington  ^  Cabell,  born  September  2, 1827  ; 
married,  June  5,  1852,  by  Rev.  WiUiam  H.  Kinckle,  to 
Robert  J.  Davis,  Esq.,  of  Lynchburg,  Va.  He  was  edu- 
cated at  Washington  College  ;  a  lawyer ;  member  of  the 
Virginia  legislature,  etc.  He  is  still  Hving  in  Lynchburg, 
Va.  He  is  the  son  of  Henry  Da\ds  (son  of  William  Davis, 
Sr.)  and  his  wife,  Sarah  Anthony,  daughter  of  Christopher 
Anthony  by  his  second  wife,  Mary  Jordan ;   Quakers. 

249.  Mrs.  Anne  C.^  Davis  died  some  years  ago,  having 
had  issue :  — 

i.  Henry  ^  Davis,  b.  1854;  d.  1856. 

ii.  Mary  Irvine  ®  Davis, 
iii.  Sarah  Anthony*^  Davis, 
iv.  Paul  Cabell  ^  Davis. 

V.  Ann  Carrington  Davis, 
vi.  Lucy  Lee  ^  Davis, 
vii.  Robert  J.^  Davis, 
viii.  William  Kinckle^  Davis. 

250.  Sallie  Massie  ^  CabeU,  born  April  28,  1831;  mar- 
ried, January  14,  1852,  by  Rev.  F.  D.  Goodwin,  to  Edgar 
Whitehead,  Esq.,  of  Amherst.  [He  was  born  near  Lov- 
ingston.  Nelson  County,  Va.,  March  30,  1828 ;  merchant 
and  tobacconist,  of  Lynchburg,  Va.  ;  captain  of  Company 
E,  2d  Virginia  Cavaby,  C.  S.  A. ;  after  the  war,  in  con- 
nection with  Thomas  Dunlop,  of  Philadelphia,  was  active 
in  developing  the  iron-ore  mines  of  the  James  River  valley ; 
president  of  the  Virginia  Tin  Mining  and  Manufacturing 
Company  of  Irish  Creek,  Rockbridge  County,  in  1883,  and 


386  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

has  since  been  occupied  in  real  estate  and  the  develo]3ment 
of  minerals.  He  is  a  son  of  John  Whitehead,  who  was  for 
many  years  in  the  banking  business  in  Lynchburg.  His 
great-grandfathers,  William  Camden  and  John  Whitehead, 
were  both  soldiers  in  the  Revolution.  WiUiam  Camden 
came  to  old  Amherst  (present  Nelson)  County  about  1761, 
and  settled  at  a  place  which  he  called  "  Greenway."  He 
was  in  some  way  connected  with  the  Fairfaxes  of  "  Green- 
way  Court."  John  Whitehead's  ancestor  came  to  Vuginia 
from  England  in  the  time  of  Charles  II.,  and  settled  on  a 
tract  of  land  granted  him  near  York  River.]  Surviving 
issue,  seven  having  died  infants  :  — 

i.  Cabell  Whitehead,  born  in  Lynchburg,  October  6, 1863  ; 
graduated  at  Lehigh  University,  Pennsylvania,  in  class 
of  1885 ;  appointed  assistant  assayer  United  States 
office  at  Boise  City,  Idaho,  in  Cleveland's  first  term  ; 
made  assayer  United  States  Mint  Bureau  of  Wash- 
mgton,  D.  C,  under  Harrison,  and  still  holds  that 
position ;  m.,  October  1,  1888,  Beua  Ayres,  daughter 
of  Col.  E.  W.  Ayres,  of  Washington,  D.  C,  and  his 
wife,  a  daughter  of  Hon.  Lemuel  Sawyer,  M.  C.  from 
North  Carohna. 
ii.  Robert  Lee  Whitehead,  b.  at  "  The  Glebe,"  near  New 
Glasgow,  Amherst  County,  April  11,  1865 ;  at  Le- 
high University,  Pennsylvania,  class  of  1887 ;  is  now 
analytical  chemist  and  manager  for  Baltmiore  (Md.) 
Electric  Refining  Company  ;  m.,  November  5,  1889, 
Fanny  Lea  Zogbaum,  daughter  of  Carl  Zogbaum,  of 
Germantown,  Pa.,  and  has  one  child  :  i.  Robert  Lee 
Whitehead,  Jr.,  b.  October  23,  1890. 

251.  Paul  C  CabeU,  born  March  17,  1835;  served  in  2d 
Virginia  Cavaby  Regiment,  C.  S.  A. ;  a  farmer ;  merchant ; 
member  of  the  Virginia  House  of  Delegates  from  Amherst, 
etc. ;  married  (first),  October  28,  1857,  Nannie  E.  Rose, 
daughter  of  Dr.  Henry  J.  Rose  and  his  wife,  Sarah  E. 
Walker,  daughter  of  Robert  Walker,  of  King  and  Queen 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREX     387 

County,  and  his  wife,  Ann  Powell,  of  Amherst,  daughter 
of  Wyatt  Powell  and  his  wife,  Sallie  Floyd,  daughter  of 
William  Floyd  and  his  wife,  Abby  Davis,  daughter  of  Rob- 
ert Davis,  Sr. 

Dr.  Henry  Jordan  Rose  was  son  of  Charles  Rose  (1747- 
1802)  by  his  second  wife,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Matthew  Jor- 
dan, brother  to  Col.  Samuel  Jordan.  Charles  was  the 
youngest  son  of  Rev.  Robert  Rose  by  his  second  wife,  Anne 
Fitz  Hugh. 

Mrs.  Nannie  E.  Cabell  left  issue :  — 
i.  Henry  Irvine  ^  Cabell. 

ii.  Sallie   Rose  ^  Cabell ;  m.  John  L.   Lee,   Esq.,  common- 
wealth's attorney  of  Amherst,  and  died  at  the  birth 
of  her  first  child, 
iii.  P.  Carrington*^  Cabell,  b.  October  31,  1864. 

251.  Hon.  Paul  C.^  Cabell  married  (second),  in  1873, 
Lou  Mundy,  daughter  of  Col.  Jesse  Mundy  and  his  wife, 
Louisa  Nevill,  daughter  of  Col.  Zachariah  Nevill  and  his 
wife,  Ann  Scott  Jefferson. 

Col.  Zachariah  Nevill  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Del- 
egates from  Nelson  County,  Va.,  in  1829  ;  died  in  1830. 
He  was  a  son  of  Col.  James  Nevill  (born  in  1728 ;  captain 
in  French  and  Indian  War;  sheriff  of  Amherst,  1763-1765; 
county  lieutenant  in  Revolution,  etc.  ;  died  December  20, 
1784),  son  of  Captain  James  Nevill  (born  probably  before 
1700 ;  owned  land  on  south  side  of  James  River  in  1724 ; 
captain  in  Goochland,  1740,  etc.  ;  died  1752).  He  was 
probably  a  son  of  John  Nevill,  of  Isle  of  Wight  County, 
Va.  Several  of  the  name  and  many  of  their  kindred  were 
among  the  founders  of  Virginia,  and  several  of  their  de- 
scendants and  many  of  their  kindred  settled  in  Virginia. 

Ann  Scott  Jefferson  was  a  daughter  of  Randolph  Jeffer- 
son [by  his  wife,  Anna,  daughter  of  Charles  Lewis  (1722- 
1782)  and  his  wife,  Mary  Randolph],  brother  of  President 
Thomas  and  son  of  Col.  Peter  Jefferson,  justice  of  the 
peace,  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses,  county  lieuten- 
ant of  Albemarle,  etc.  (by  his  wife,  Jane  Randolph,  daugh- 


388  THE   CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

ter  o£  Col.  Isham  Randolph) ;  son  of  Capt.  Thomas  Jefferson 
(by  his  wife,  Mary  Field),  justice  of  the  peace  for  Henrico 
from  1706,  sheriff  1718-1719,  died  in  1731;  son  of  Thomas 
Jefferson  (by  his  wife,  Mary  Branch),  who  was  living  in 
Henrico  in  1677,  and  died  in  1697.  He  is  said  to  have 
descended  from  Mr.  Jefferson,  a  member  of  the  House  of 
Burgesses  of  1619,  the  first  General  Assembly  ever  con- 
vened in  America. 

Mrs.  Mary  Field  Jefferson  was  a  daughter  of  Major 
Peter  Field  by  his  wife,  Judith,  daughter  of  Henry  Soane, 
Speaker  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  in  1661. 

251.  Hon.  Paul  C.^  and  Lou  Mundy  Cabell  now  reside 
in  Richmond,  Va.     Issue  four  :  — 

iv.  Randolph  ^  Cabell ;  d.  infant. 
V.  Mayo  Cabell,  b.  September  14,  1877. 

vi.  Guy  Cabell,  b.  July  2,  1880. 
viii.  Louise  Cabell,  b.  December,  1882. 


63.  Mayo  *  Cabell,  born  November  7,  1800 ;  educated  at 
home,  by  Miss  Douthat  (1805-1806),  Rev.  John  Hendren 
(1810-1811:),  and  others,  until  1814 ;  in  Lynchburg  by  Mr. 
John  Reid,  1814-1816.  He  then  went  into  mercantile 
business  with  Mr.  Daniel  Brown,  who  died  in  1817.  He 
so  early  disclosed  the  traits  which  marked  his  after  hfe, 
wonderful  energy,  great  conscientiousness,  and  uncommon 
common  sense,  that  at  his  father's  death  in  1822  he  was 
left  sole  executor  of  his  large  estates;  succeeding  his  father 
also  as  the  administrator  of  the  estate  of  Dr.  George  Cal- 
laway, of  Glenmore.  In  1835,  he  was  called  upon  to  take 
charge  of  the  estate  of  "  Montezuma "  and  the  family  of 
his  sister,  Mrs.  McClelland ;  thus,  at  the  age  of  35,  having 
charge  of  three  large  estates  and  the  care  of  three  families. 
He  habitually  rose  several  hours  before  day,  wrote  up  his 
account-books,  attended  to  his  correspondence,  and  such 
business,  until  daylight ;  then  saw  to  all  the  business  of 
the  day  on  his  own  place  until  breakfast,  after  which  he 
rode  over  to  "  Glenmore  "  and  to  "  Montezuma,"  seeing  to 


MAYO  CABELL,    ESQ. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     389 

the  daily  routine  of  business  at  each  place ;  then  to  his 
store  at  Tye  River  warehouse,  and  in  after  years  to  his 
boats  and  freighting  business  on  the  canal,  his  sawmiUs, 
etc.  It  is  a  question  if  he  was  ever  idle  for  ten  minutes  at 
a  time  in  his  life,  unless  he  was  sick.  In  1835,  his  health 
failed  alarmingly  from  the  effects  of  neglected  cold.  In 
the  fall  he  visited  Philadelphia  and  consulted  Dr.  Jackson, 
who  pronounced  his  lungs  seriously  diseased,  and  advised 
him  to  spend  the  winter  in  Cuba.  Sending  his  mother  and 
his  son  WiUiam  to  Halifax  to  spend  the  winter  with  his 
sister,  Mrs.  Bruce,  he  took  his  wife  and  his  daughter  Mar- 
garet via  New  Orleans  to  Cuba,  where  they  remained  until 
May,  1836,  when  he  returned  to  his  home  entirely  restored 
in  health.  In  December,  1841,  Mr.  Cabell  met  with  the 
greatest  misfortune  of  his  life.  While  crossing  the  Blue 
Ridge  in  a  stage,  about  one  mile  west  of  Covington,  on  the 
White  Sidphur  road,  the  horses  took  fright  and  ran  down 
the  mountain  ;  he  leaped  from  the  stage  and  broke  his  leg, 
but  probably  saved  his  Kfe,  as  the  stage  was  dashed  over 
and  over  down  the  mountain  side.  He  was  taken  to  Coving- 
ton, where  his  leg  was  amputated,  after  great  suffering,  as 
it  was  necessary  to  send  a  long  distance  for  a  surgeon  to 
perform  the  operation.  Yet  this  loss  affected  his  energy  so 
little  that  the  next  summer  he  was  ao^ain  on  horseback  at- 
tending  as  usual  to  all  of  his  extensive  domain.  In  1889, 
his  son,  Edward  M.  Cabell,  visited  Covington,  from  whence 
he  wrote  to  me  :  "  It  seems  that  this  accident  to  the  stage, 
in  which  my  father  lost  his  leg,  is  an  incident  in  the  history 
of  the  town.  I  was  pointed  out  the  place,  etc.  I  also  saw 
the  old-time  inn  in  which  he  stayed.  It  is  just  hke  the  old 
iuns  you  read  about  in  old  books." 

"  At  the  approach  of  war,  Mr.  Cabell  showed  his  usual 
cahn  judgment  and  high  sense  of  honor.  An  old-line 
Whig  in  pohtics,  he  was  opposed  to  the  war.  He  foresaw 
the  final  defeat  of  the  South  from  the  beginning,  but  sac- 
rificed all  to  uphold  his  native  State  and  to  oppose  her 
oppressors.     And  when  our  final  defeat  came,  with  the  loss 


390  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

of  the  large  means  which  he  had  always  been  accustomed 
to  wield,  he  bore  all  with  uncomplaining  patience."  Gen. 
Sheridan  and  his  cavalry  spent  two  days  at  "  Union  HiU," 
"  Norwood,"  and  the  region  roundabout,  in  March,  1865  ; 
but  it  is  not  necessary  to  go  into  these  disagreeable  details. 
Mr.  Cabell  died  May  5,  1869,  so  suddenly  that  his  death 
may  be  best  described  in  the  words  of  the  Bible,  — "  He 
was  not,  for  God  took  him." 

Mr.  Cabell  inherited  the  old  "  Union  Hill "  mansion  es- 
tate, and  was  the  last  of  foui-teen  children  who  composed 
the  old  "  Union  Hill "  family.  He  was  not  ambitious  of 
pubhc  honors,  and  therefore  filled  no  office  except  that  of 
county  magistrate ;  but  he  possessed  qualities  for  usefulness 
on  a  large  scale,  which  quahfied  him  for  almost  any  position 
in  the  gift  of  the  State.  In  the  words  of  "  a  friend," 
written  soon  after  his  death  :  "  He  was  a  Christian  accord- 
iuo'  to  the  strictest  definition  of  the  term.  There  was  no 
cant  about  him,  no  professions,  no  ostentation  ;  for  forty 
years  he  was  the  mainstay  of  the  Episcopal  Church  in  his 
neighborhood  and  county.  He  was  a  consistent  church- 
man, but  no  bigot  or  partisan.  Death  may  have  overtaken 
him  unawares ;  its  work  was  so  quick  that  he  did  not  have 
time  to  speak,  but  he  was  ready.  He  kept  his  lamp 
trimmed  and  his  lio^lit  buruincr  all  the  time.  He  leaves 
behind  him  wife  and  children  and  friends,  who  will  long 
moui'n  his  irreparable  loss  ;  but  they  all  know  that  their 
loss  is  his  eternal  gain.  He  leaves  behind  him  a  suffering 
community,  which,  for  nearly  a  half  century,  has  relied 
upon  his  wisdom,  and  to  a  great  extent  upon  his  benevo- 
lence. He  leaves  the  name  of  an  almost  perfect  man  to 
be  transmitted  to  coming  generations  for  theii*  praise  and 
imitation.  Take  him  all  in  all,  we  never  shall  look  upon 
his  like  as^ain." 

63.  Mayo  *  Cabell  was  married  (first),  December  7, 1825, 
by  Rev.  W.  S.  Reid,  to  Mary  Cornelia  Briscoe  Daniel  (sister 
of  Judge  William  Daniel,  Jr.,  and  aunt  of  U.  S.  Senator 
John  W.  Daniel),  eldest  daughter  of  Judge  Wilham  Daniel, 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     391 

Sr.  (1770-1839),  and  his  wife,  Margaret  Baldwin  (1785- 
1821).  She  was  born  October  18,  1804,  and  died  March 
7,  1813,  at  "  Union  Hill."     Issue  nine  :  — 

252.  i.  Margaret  B.^  Cabell,  m.  Robert  L.  Brown  (283). 
ii.  William  Daniel^  Cabell,  b.  1828;  d.  1830. 

iii.  Ann  Carrington  '  Cabell,  b.  1830  ;  d.  1831. 
iv.  Mayo^  Cabell,  b.  1832;  d.  1833. 

253.  V.  WiUiam  DanieP  Cabell. 

254.  vi.  Joseph  Carrington  °  Cabell. 

vii.  Eliza  Lewis '  Cabell,  b.  1838  ;  d.  1849. 

255.  ym.  Cornelia  Mayo  ^  Cabell. 

256.  ix.  Robert  Stuart  ^  Cabell. 

63.  Mayo^  Cabell  married  (second),  December  3,  1846, 
Carolme  Anthony,  youngest  daughter  of  Christopher  An- 
thony (1776-1835 ;  see  52).  She  was  born  May  21, 1822, 
and  is  now  Kving  at  "  Union  Hill."     Issue,  seven  :  — 

257.  X.  Sarah  Randolph^  CabeU,  m.  Alexander  Brown 

(286). 
xi.  Lucy  Gilmer^  Cabell,  b,  August  28,  1850,  at 
"  Rosenvik,"  her  father's  summer  residence  in 
Amherst. 

258.  xii.  Elvira  Bruce  ^  Cabell. 

259.  xiii.  CaroHne  A.^  Cabell,  m.  Alexander  Brown  (286). 
xiv.  Eliza  Callaway  ^  CabeU,  b.  August  17,  1857  ;  d. 

October  26,  1862. 
XV.  Mayo^  Cabell,  b.  July  28, 1860;  d.  December  2, 

1861. 
xvi.  Edward  Marshall'  Cabell,  b.  November  20,  1863, 

at  "  Union  Hill;"  educated  at  Norwood  ;  m., 

June  8,  1887,  at  Waynesboro,  Va.,  by  Rev. 

Mr.  Cocke,  to  Mary  Holmes  McGuire,  niece  of 

Dr.  Hunter  McGuire,  and  daughter  of  Capt. 

Hugh  McGuire,  C.  S.  A.     He  has  one  child  : 

i.  Ruth  Hohiies  ^  Cabell. 

253.  William  Daniel'  Cabell  was  born  at  Union  Hill, 
January  13,  1834;    educated  at  Franklin  Minor's  School 


392  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

and  the  University  of  Virginia,  1852-1853  ;  a  farmer  and 
planter ;  agent  of  the  county  court  of  Nelson  County,  Va., 
to  furnish  supplies  to  destitute  families  of  soldiers ;  a  com- 
missioned ofticer  in  "  the  New  Market  Home  Guards,"  and 
bonded  agent  of  the  commissary  department,  C.  S.  A. 
Soon  after  the  war  he  opened,  at  his  residence,  the  Nor- 
wood High  School  for  boys  and  young  men,  which  he 
conducted  for  a  good  many  years,  and  then  sold  out  to 
others,  since  when  he  has  removed  his  residence  to  Wash- 
ington, where  his  wife  and  himself  are  now  conducting  the 
Norwood  Institute  for  Girls  and  Young  Ladies.  He  is 
president  of  the  alumni  association  of  the  University  of 
Vii'gina,  in  Washington. 

253.  Mr.  Cabell  was  married  (first),  September  7,  1855, 
by  Rev.  T.  F.  Martin,  to  Elizabeth  Nicholas  Cabell,  daugh- 
ter of  N.  F.  Cabell,  Esq.  (141).  She  died  Aprd  5,  18G3, 
leaving :  — 

i.  Annie  Barraud  ^  Cabell,  b.  October  1,  1856 ;  m.  Hon.  A. 
Moore,  Jr.,  of  Clarke  County.     Issue  :  i.  William  Ca- 
bell " ;  ii.  Mary  Brewer  ;  iii.  Annie  Cabell " ;  iv.  Mar- 
garet^;   V.  Arthur  Lee  (dead);  vi.  Joseph  Francis^; 
vii.  Elvira  Daniel ' ;  viii.  Charles  EUet  ^ ;  ix.  John  Hart- 
well  ^ ;  and  x.  Elizabeth  Nicholas  '  Moore. 
ii.  Mary  CorneHa  ^  Cabell,  b.  June  15,  1859  ;  m.,  at  Nor- 
wood, the  home  of  the  bride's  father,  August  3,  1887, 
by  Rev.  Mayo  Cabell  Martin,  rector  of   the  Church 
of  the   Holy    Trinity,    Nashville,  Tenn.,   to    William 
Stephenson,  of  Washington,  Pa.     Issue :  i.   Annie '  ; 
ii.  WilHam  CabeU  ^ ;  iii.  Gertrude  Elizabeth  '  ;  and  iv. 
Mary  EUet"  Ste2:>henson. 
253.  Mr.    Cabell   married    (second),   July   9,   1867,    in 
Philadelphia,  Mary  Virgina  Ellet.     Mrs.  Mary  V.  Cabell 
was  one  of  the  earliest  members  of  the  District  of  Colimibia 
chapter  of  "  The  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution," 
and   for    several   years  the   "  President   Presiding."      Her 
father,  Col.  Charles  EUet,  Jr.,  was  born  January  1,  1810, 
in  Bucks  County,  Pa. ;  a  distinguished  engineer ;  planned 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     393 

and  built  the  first  wire  suspension-bridge  in  the  United 
States,  etc. ;  colonel  in  U.  S.  A.  1861-1862  ;  died  June 
21,  1862,  at  Cairo,  111.  ;  son  of  Charles  and  Mary  (Israel) 
EUet,  son  of  Charles  and  Hannah  (Carpenter)  Ellet,  of  New 
Jersey.^ 

Pier  mother,  Elvira  Augusta  Daniel,  was  born  in  1817,  in 
Lynchburg,  Va. ;  married,  October  31,  1836,  Col.  Charles 
Ellet,  Jr.  ;  died  June  29,  1862.  She  was  a  daughter  of 
Judge  Wilham  Daniel,  Sr.  (1770-1839),  by  his  first  wife, 
Margaret  Bald%vin  (1785-1826),  daughter  of  Dr.  Cornehus 
and  Mary  (Briscoe)  Baldwin.     Issue  six :  — 

iii.  Ehdra  Daniel  ^  Cabell. 

iv.  Charles  Ellet '  CabeU. 

V.  William  ^  Cabell ;  d.  young. 

vi.  Nina  Ellet  "^  CabeU. 
vii.  Margaret^  Cabell, 
viii.  Mayo  ^  Cabell. 

254.  Joseph  C.^  Cabell,  Jr.,  born  at  Union  HiU,  June  4, 
1836 ;  educated  at  Franklin  Minor's  and  the  University  of 
Virginia ;  studied  law  partly  at  the  University  and  partly 
under  the  late  Judge  Wood  Bouldin  ;  licensed  to  j)ractice 
June  4,  1857  (his  21st  birthday)  by  Judges  Leigh,  Daniel, 
and  Meredith ;  commenced  to  practice  June  23  following 
in  the  counties  of  Nelson  and  Buckingham,  in  partnership 
with  Hon.  William  CabeU  Flournoy ;  entered  the  C.  S.  A. 
as  a  lieutenant.  Company  C,  49th  Vu-ginia,  Featherstone's 
Brigade,  D.  H.  HiU's  division,  and  afterwards  in  Early's 
Brigade,  Ewell's  division,  Jackson's  corps;  severely  wounded 
at  "  Seven  Pines  ;  "  after  his  recovery,  fought  at  Freder- 
icksburg, Winchester,  Sharpsburg,  Gettysburg,  etc. ;  died 
November  11,  1863,  in  a  Richmond  hospital,  from  disease 
contracted  in  the  army,  and  was  buried  at  "  Union  Hill " 
with  his  forefathers  of  the  Revolution.  He  never  mar- 
ried. 

^  Appleton's  Cyclopcedia  of  American  Biography  ;  Keith's  Provincial  Council 
of  Pennsylvania,  pp.  ^Q,  97,  etc. 


394  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR   KIN 

255.  Cornelia  Mayo  ^  Cabell,  born  at  "  Union  Hill,"  July 
30,  1840  ;  married,  at  Union  Hill,  August  2, 1859,  by  Rev. 
William  H.  Kinckle,  of  Lynchburg,  to  Rev.  T.  F.  Mar- 
tin. She  died  in  Nashville,  Tenn.,  June  30,  1883.  Her 
husband.  Rev.  Thomas  Ferdinand  Martin  (son  of  Thomas 
Martin  and  his  wife,  Mary  Briscoe-Boyd,  nee  Bryan,  of 
Buchanan,  Botetourt  County,  Va.),  was  born  April  2, 
1826 ;  educated  at  a  private  school  until  1842  ;  clerk  in  a 
store  in  Buchanan,  1842-1844  ;  then  a  student  under  Rev. 
William  Bryant,  rector  of  the  Episcopal  Church  at  Buch- 
anan for  two  years  ;  then  a  tutor  for  two  or  three  years, 
most  of  the  time  in  the  family  of  Capt.  Cary  Breckenridge, 
near  Fincastle ;  entered  the  Episcopal  Theological  Semi- 
nary, near  Alexandria,  in  the  fall  of  1849;  graduated  there 
in  the  summer  of  1852,  and  was  immediately  after  ordained 
deacon  in  the  old  Christ  Church,  Alexandria  ;  took  charge 
of  the  parish  in  Amherst  County  in  September,  1852 ;  or- 
dained to  the  priesthood  in  St.  Paul's  Church,  Lynchburg, 
October,  1853 ;  called  to  the  parish  in  Nelson  County  in 
September,  1855,  and  continued  in  charge  until  February, 
1867,  when  he  became  rector  of  Grace  Church,  Berryville, 
Clarke  County,  Va. ;  after  twelve  years  as  rector  of  that 
parish,  he  was  called  to  St.  Ann's  Church,  Nashville,  Tenn., 
in  April,  1879,  of  which  parish  he  is  still  rector.  His  chil- 
dren are :  — 

i.  Mayo  CabeU  ^  Martin,  b.  August  14,  1860  ;  Episcopal 
clergyman  of  St.  Clement's  Church,  El  Paso,  Texas ; 
m.,  November  9,  1892,  Laura,  daughter  of  B.  F. 
Farrar,  Esq.,  of  Nashville,  Tenn.  (See  315.) 
ii.  Charles  Stuart  ^  Martin,  b.  July  6,  1862  ;  member  of 
wholesale  drug  firm  of  Spurlock,  Neal  &  Co.,  Nash- 
ville ;  m.,  December  12,  1883,  Marion  R.,  daughter 
of  A.  M.  Tenison,  Esq.,  of  Davidson  County,  Tenn., 
and  has  :  i.  Marion  Stuart  ^  Martin,  b.  November  6, 
1888. 
iii.  Margaret  Baldwin  ^  Martin,  b.  October  21,  1864 ;  d. 
November  20,  1894  ;  never  married. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  395 

iv.  Eliza  Callaway  ^  Martin,  h.  March  5,  1867 ;  m.,  No- 
vember 15,  1888,  Mr.  Joseph  Gibson,  Jr.,  only  son 
of  Joseph  Gibson,  Sr.,  cashier  of  the  Nashville  Gas 
Co.,  and  has :  i.  Mary  Cornelia  ^  Gibson,  b.  1891. 
V.  Mary    Cornelia    B.^  Martin,    b.   May  27,  1869;  m., 
January   15,  1890,   Charles  Armstrong,  of  Maury 
County,  Tenn.     She  d.  in  El  Paso,  Texas,  June  10, 
1892.     Her  only  child  d.  May  12,  1892,  and  her 
husband  d.  in  August,  1893. 
vi.  Alice  Boyd^  Martin,    b.  February  21,  1872;  m.,  No- 
vember   18,    1890,    Edward    0.    Frierson,    son    of 
Rev.  E.  0.  Frierson,  D.  D.,  of  Lincolnville,  S.   C. 
(Presbyterian  minister).     She  d.  November  3,  1891, 
in  Cincinnati,  Ohio.     Her  only  child  d.  in  1892. 
vii.  Anne  Carrington^  Martin,  b.  March  31,  1874. 
viii.  Kate  NeilP  Martin,  b.  October  1,  1875. 
ix.  Thomas  Ferdinand  ^  Martin,  b.  1877 ;  d.  1877. 
X.  Eleanor  Love'  Martin,  b.  July  28,  1879. 
xi.  Virginia  Lee'  Martin,  b.  1882;  d.  1882. 

256.  Robert  Stuart^  Cabell,  born  at  Union  Hill,  October 
22,  1842 ;  entered  the  C.  S.  A.  as  a  private  in  the  Lynch- 
burg Home  Guards  (Capt.  Samuel  Garland),  11th  Virginia 
Regiment ;  at  the  reorganization  in  March,  1862,  was 
elected  second  lieutenant  of  Capt.  Lobban's  company,  from 
Nelson,  in  49th  Virginia  Regiment ;  severely  wounded  at 
Seven  Pines  in  May,  1862  ;  recovered,  and  returned  to  the 
army  October  10,  1862  ;  so  seriously  wounded  in  the  bat- 
tle near  Fredericksburg,  December  14,  1862,  that  the  am- 
putation of  one  of  his  legs  was  necessary.  He  married, 
September  27,  1864,  Alice  Boyd,  daughter  of  Henry  Boyd, 
Esq.,  of  "  Blue  Rock,"  Nelson  County,  Va.,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Dr.  Thomas  Massie  by  his  first  wife.  She 
bore  him  three  children  (all  of  whom  died  young),  and  died 
in  1869. 

258.  Elvira   Bruce'   Cabell,   born   June   12,    1852,   at 


396  THE   CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

"  Eosenvik  ; "  married,  December  27,  1875,  at  "  Union 
Hill,"  by  Rev.  Edmund  Withers,  to  Thomas  A.  Seddon, 
the  eldest  son  of  the  late  Hon.  John  Seddon  (brother  to 
Hon.  James  A.  Seddon),  of  "  Snowden,"  Stafford  County, 
Va.  Thomas  A.  Seddon  was  born  September  27,  1850 ;  at 
University  of  Virginia,  1869-1870 ;  professor  of  mathemat- 
ics at  Norwood  High  School,  1872-1874  ;  law  student  at 
University  of  Virginia  fall  of  1874 ;  graduated  and  moved 
to  Missouri  to  practice  early  in  1875 ;  returned  to  Virginia 
in  the  summer;  professor  of  modern  languages  at  Norwood, 
1875-1876 ;  in  the  summer  of  1876  purchased  an  interest 
in  that  school,  and  was  one  of  its  principals  for  the  next 
five  sessions,  1876-1881.  His  health  faihng,  in  the  sum- 
mer of  1881  he  sold  out  at  Norwood  and  sought  outdoor 
employment  in  farming.  He  died  at  "  Argyle,"  in  Stafford 
County,  Va.,  February  21,  1885,  and  on  the  24th  was 
buried  at  "  Union  Hill."  He  left  an  only  child  :  — 
i.  Elvira  Cabell^  Seddon. 


64.  Patrick  Henry'  Cabell,  born  at  "Union  Hill,"  July 
23,  1804 ;  educated  at  home  and  at  the  school  of  Rev. 
John  Hendren  until  1814 ;  in  1816-1817  went  to  school  to 
William  L.  Harris ;  in  1817-1819  lived  with  Hon.  T.  S. 
McClelland,  in  Lynchburg,  and  went  to  school ;  "  board 
and  tuition  for  one  year,  $150  "  (name  of  teacher  not  men- 
tioned in  Mr.  McClelland's  account).  From  March,  1820, 
to  March,  1821,  lived  with  Mr.  J.  J.  Flournoy,  and  went 
to  school  to  Mr.  Venable,  in  Prince  Edward;  board,  $75, 
and  tuition  $30.  From  March,  1821,  to  March,  1822,  at 
Hampden  Sidney  College  ;  board,  $100,  and  tuition  $30. 
On  May  29,  1822,  Mr.  Flournoy  wrote  to  his  father  (Col. 
William  Cabell):  "I  rode  with  Patrick  to-day  to  college; 
he  gets  a  room  on  the  lower  floor,  under  one  of  the  teach- 
ers, which  I  think  a  good  situation  for  study.  I  obtained 
from  Mr.  Cushing  the  expenses  for  the  summer  session, 
$62."  In  September  following,  Mr.  Flournoy  writes :  "  Pat- 
rick was  unfortunately  taken  sick  a  few  days  before  the  ex- 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     397 

animation.  I  have  reason  to  believe,  from  a  conversation 
with  Mr.  Gushing-,  that  he  would  have  graduated.  The 
president  says  Patrick,  during  his  continuance  at  college, 
conducted  himself  in  an  orderly  manner,  and  he  laments 
that  he  was  not  able  to  stand  an  examination."  His  health 
continued  to  be  bad,  and  he  finally  died  at  "  Union  Hill," 
November  22,  1824. 


13.  LANDON^  Cabell's  descendants. 

65.  Landon  Rose*  Cabell,  "the  oldest  child  that  lived," 
graduated  in  the  Medical  Department  of  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania  in  1822 ;  married,  in  January,  1829,  his 
cousin,  Marion  F.  Cabell  (111) ;  lived,  after  his  marriage, 
in  Lynchburg,  for  a  time,  and  later  in  Richmond.  His 
wife  died,  without  surviving  issue,  in  December,  1834. 
"  After  her  death  he  went  twice  to  Europe  for  his  health. 
The  last  trip  gave  no  relief,  and  he  was  advised  by  his 
physician  in  London  to  land  in  some  Southern  port,  which 
he  did,  and  traveled  immediately  to  Texas,  where  he  was 
so  fortunate  as  to  meet  a  friend  and  relative,  Joseph  C. 
Megginson  (307),  formerly  of  Nelson  County,  Va.,  who 
was  with  him  at  his  death,  and  wrote  his  mother  all  the 
particulars." 

66.  Robert  Henry*  Cabell,  born  February  19,  1799,  at 
Springhill  (now  Montezuma),  then  Amherst,  now  Nelson 
County,  Va. ;  received  his  collegiate  education  at  William 
and  Mary  College ;  studied  medicine  and  surgery  in  the 
Medical  Department  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania ; 
graduated  in  1821 ;  settled  in  Richmond  the  same  year, 
where  he  soon  obtained  an  excellent  practice;  married,  in 
1823,  Julia  Mayo,  second  daughter  of  Col.  John  Mayo,  of 
Richmond,  and  his  wife,  Abigail  De  Hart.  During  1827 
to  1829,  Dr.  Cabell  and  his  wife  were  in  Europe.  For  the 
purpose  of  increasing  and  improving  his  medical  knowledge, 
he  visited  the  most  celebrated  hospitals  in  England,  France, 


398  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

and  Italy.  His  wife  was  a  sister  to  Mrs.  Gen.  Winfield 
Scott,  of  the  U.  S.  A. ;  when  Gen.  Lafayette  was  in  Amer- 
ica, they  had  given  him  a  reception  in  Richmond ;  when 
they  were  in  France,  Lafayette  invited  them  to  visit  him, 
and  they  were  present  at  the  marriage  of  Lafayette's 
daughter.  (Mrs.  Virginia  Cabell  Tyson,  the  only  living 
child  of  Dr.  Cabell,  has  in  her  possession  several  letters 
from  Gen.  Lafayette.)  During  the  last  year  of  Dr.  Cabell's 
stay  in  France,  his  first  cousin,  William  Cabell  Rives,  was 
the  United  States  minister  there.  He  returned  to  Rich- 
mond prior  to  1830.  He  was  very  active  and  successful  in 
contending  with  the  smallpox  epidemic  in  Richmond  in 
1831.  He  was  appointed  to  succeed  Dr.  Warner  "  in  the 
surgical  professorship  of  the  Richmond  Medical  College," 
but  declined.  He  was  devoted  to  raising  fine  horses  for  the 
turf,  and  was  in  1853  president  of  the  Fairfield  Jockey 
Club.  He  had  two  children  by  his  first  wife,  both  of  whom 
died  in  childhood  and  were  buried  in  the  Mayo  Cemetery, 
at  "  Powhatan  Seat,"  near  Richmond.  She  also  dying,  he 
married  in  1860  Mrs.  Catharine  Pelham,  widow  of  Charles 
Pelham,  of  England.  "  She  was  one  of  the  Eyres,  of  Clif- 
ton Castle,  County  Galway,  Ireland."  Dr.  Cabell  was  one 
of  the  first  to  purchase  property  in  Milwaukee,  Wis.  ;  he 
acquired  a  large  estate  in  that  city,  and  Cabell's  Addition 
was  named  after  him.  Like  his  brother-in-law.  Gen.  Win- 
field  Scott,  he  was  opposed  to  secession,  and  when  the  war 
began  he  removed  from  Richmond  to  Milwaukee,  where  he 
continued  to  live  for  a  good  many  years.  Some  time  after 
the  war  he  removed  to  Baltimore,  Md.,  where  he  died  in 
February,  1876.  His  widow  survives  him.  Their  only 
child :  — 

260.  i.  Virginia  C.^  Cabell,  b.  in  Wisconsin,  and  called  Vir- 
ginia for  the  old  State  to  which  her  father  was 
so  greatly  attached.  She  was  m.  in  1883,  in 
Christ  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  Baltimore, 
by  Rev.  Dr.  Walter  W.  Williams,  rector,  to  Ben- 
jamin Howard  Tyson,  son  of  Richard  W.  Tyson 


DR.   ROBERT  HENRY  CABELL 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     399 

and  his  wife,  who  was  a  daughter  of  Gen.  Ben- 
jamin Chew  Howard,  of  Baltimore,  a  soldier  in 
the  War  of  1812,  represented  Baltimore  in  Con- 
gress, member  of  the  Peace  Commission  in  Wash- 
ington in  1861,  etc.      He  was  the  son   of  Col. 
John  Eager  Howard,  of  the  Revolutionary  War, 
and  his  wife,  Margaret  Oswald  Chew,  who    de- 
scended from  John  Chew,  a  member  of  the  Vir- 
ginia House  of  Burgesses  in  1623. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Tyson  are  still  living.     Issue :  — 
i.  Virginia  Cabell^  Tyson, 
ii.  Juliet  Cabell*'  Tyson. 

iii.  Benjamin  Howard^  Tyson,  b.  in  August,  1887;  d.  Feb- 
ruary, 1888. 


67.  Elizabeth  ^  Cabell  was  married,  by  Rev.  W.  S.  Reid, 
December  23,  1819,  to  William  Radford  Preston  ;  they  re 
moved  at  an  early  day  to  Missouri,  where  they  both  died 
many  years  ago.  [William  R.  Preston,  by  the  law  of  pri- 
mogeniture, was  the  head  of  the  family ;  he  was  the  eldest 
son  of  Col.  John  Preston  (by  his  wife,  Mary  Radford),  a 
member  of  the  Virginia  legislature,  and  for  many  years 
treasurer  of  that  State.  See  "  The  Preston  Family,"  by  the 
late  Col.  John  Mason  Brown.]     Issue :  — 

i.  Landonia  ^  Preston,  d.  young ;  unmarried. 

261.  ii.  Paulina  ^  Preston. 

iii.  Andy  ^  Preston,  d.  young ;  unmarried. 

262.  iv.  Aurinthia^  Preston. 

263.  V.  Marion  Radford^  Preston. 

vi.  Washawtan  ^  Preston,  —  "  named  for  an  Indian 

chief." 
vii.  Landon  ^  Preston. 

viii.  Elizabeth  ^  Preston,  m. Randolph. 

ix.  Isadore  ^  Preston,  m. Randolph. 

X.  Thomas  ^  Preston,  who  m.  but  d.  s.  p. 
xi.  Rebecca^  Preston,  who   m.   Mr.  Des  Meux,  of 
Mississippi,  but  d.  s.  p. 


400  THE   CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

261.  Paulina^  Preston,  married  Dr.  William  Talley,  who 
went  from  Cumberland  County,  Va.,  to  Missouri.  [He  was 
the  son  of  William  Talley  by  his  wife,  Fannie  Daniel  (born 
1776),  a  sister  of  Judge  William  Daniel  the  elder,  and 
daughter  of  William  Daniel,  an  ensign  in  the  Revolutionary 
army  (by  his  wife,  Martha  Allen,  daughter  of  Archer  Allen, 
a  member  of  the  Cumberland  County  Committee,  1775),  son 
of  William  Daniel  (a  brother  of  Sheriff  James  Daniel) ;  will 
dated  March  8,  1771,  proved  April  24,  1775  (by  his  wife, 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  Watkins  Woodson,  daughter  of  "  Thomas 
Watkins,  of  Swift  Creek  ").]     Issue,  two  sons  :  — 

i.  Dr.  William  ^  Talley,  Jr.,  m.  his  first  cousin,  Lucy  ^  Talley. 
ii.  Joseph*^  Talley. 

262.  Aurinthia^  Preston,  married  Joseph  A.  Talley,  a 
brother  to  Dr.  William  Talley  who  married  (261).  He  was 
living  in  Wentzville,  Mo.,  in  1885,  "  a  very  old  man."  He 
died,  leaving  an  only  child  :  — 

i.  Lucy  ^  Talley,  who  m.    her   cousin.   Dr.   William  ^   Tal- 
ley, Jr. 

263.  Marion^  Radford  Preston,  married  Samuel  Davis 
Williamson,  of  Virginia ;  both  dead  many  years.  Issue 
nine,  of  whom  four  died  infants ;  the  others  are  :  — 

i.  Rose  Judith^  Williamson,  m.,  first,  S.  S.  Kirk,  who 
d.  s.  p.  She  m.,  second,  Capt.  William  L.  Cash,  of 
Washington,  D.  C. 

ii.  William  Preston  ^  Williamson,  attorney  at  law,  of 
Washington,  a  bachelor. 

iii.  Landon  CabeU^  Williamson,  b.  October  12,  1853,  at 
Charlottesville,  Va. ;  parents  afterwards  moved  to 
Lynchburg,  and  in  1869  to  Washington,  where  in 
1874  he  graduated  from  the  law  school  of  the  Na- 
tional University,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  the  district ;  is  president  of  the 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association  of  Washington ; 
president  of  the  General  Masonic  Relief  Association 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  401 

of  the  United  States  and  Canada ;  was  Grand  Master 
of  Masons  of  the  District  of  Columbia  in  1893 ;  is  a 
member  and  office-bearer  in  the  Presbyterian  Church ; 
m.  Almeria  Shepherd  Van  Vleck,  of  a  distinguished 
New  York  family.     Has  no  issue. 

iv.  Samuel  Stuart^  Williamson,  in  business  in  Bridgeport, 
Conn. ;  m.  Mary  Eliza  Perry,  and  has  issue :  i.  Wil- 
bur Warren  ^ ;  ii.  Marion  Rosa  ^ ;  and  iii.  Ruth  Es- 
tella^  Williamson. 

V.  Marion  Radford  ^  Williamson,  m.  Dr.  Franklin  Castle,  a 
practicing  physician  of  Philadelphia.     No  issue. 


15.    MARGARET   J.^   CABELL   RIVES'    DESCENDANTS. 

68.  Landon  Cabell*  Rives,  named  for  his  uncle,  Landon 
Cabell,  whose  disappearance  was  then  a  source  of  great  dis- 
tress to  the  family,  was  the  first  male  child  born  in  the 
present  "  Union  Hill "  mansion  who  survived  childhood. 
He  was  born  "about  five  o'clock  on  the  morning  of  the 
24th  of  October,  1790."  His  mother  was  so  ill  that  for 
many  days  "  her  life  was  almost  despaired  of."  The  cele- 
brated Dr.  George  Gilmer,  of  Pen  Park,  Albemarle,  the 
father  of  the  first  Mrs.  William  Wirt,  was  the  physician  in 
attendance,  and  "  for  nearly  a  week  he  scarcely  left  his 
post  by  the  bedside  of  his  patient." 

The  child  "  received  from  his  earliest  boyhood  the  many 
advantages  derived  from  association  with  a  cultivated  and 
intellectual  society.  At  an  early  age  he  entered  Hampden 
Sidney,  and  afterwards  William  and  Mary  College,  where 
he  graduated."  He  lived  for  a  time  in  Nelson.  On  April 
2G,  1815,  he  married  Miss  Anna  Maria  Towles,  of  Lynch- 
burg, and  resided  for  a  time  in  that  city,  then  returned  to 
Nelson  and  settled  on  his  Bellevue  estate ;  but  farming  was 
not  congenial  to  him,  and  he  finally  chose  medicine  as  a 
profession.  He  studied  in  Philadelphia  under  the  private 
tuition  of  Dr.  Chapman,  and  received  his  diploma  from  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania  in  1820. 


402  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

"  The  first  nine  years  of  his  professional  life  were  passed 
in  his  native  State.  He  removed  with  his  family  to  Cincin- 
nati, Ohio,  in  1829,  where  he  practiced  his  profession  with 
great  devotion  and  success  for  thirty  years.  No  physician 
in  the  history  of  this  city  has  had  a  larger  practice,  or  has 
passed  through  life  more  truly  honored  and  loved,  than  Dr. 
Rives.  Not  only  in  the  practice  of  medicine  was  Dr.  Rives 
eminent,  but  as  a  medical  teacher  and  writer  he  was  widely 
and  honorably  known.  He  was  one  of  the  faculty  of  the 
Cincinnati  Medical  College,  and  afterwards  of  the  Ohio 
Medical  College.  He  retired  from  the  active  duties  of  his 
profession  about  the  year  1860,  but  he  continued  to  reside 
in  Cincinnati,  where  his  warm  heart,  his  noble  mind,  and  his 
perfect  example  of  the  old  time  gentleman,  now  so  rarely 
seen,  will  long  be  remembered.  He  died  on  the  3d  of 
June,  1870,  departing  honored  by  all,  and  full  of  Christian 
hope  in  the  blessed  future  before  him." 

His  wife,  Anna  Maria  Towles,  born  October  8,  1795,  "  a 
gifted  and  elegant  woman,  of  great  personal  beauty,"  died 
in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  in  1841.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Maj. 
Oliver  Towles  (by  his  wife,  Agatha  Lewis,  born  1774,  mar- 
ried 1794,  died  1843.  Daughter  of  Col.  William  Lewis,  of 
the  Sweet  Springs, — born  1724,  married  1754,  died  1811  — 
and  his  wife,  Anne  Montgomery),  of  the  War  of  1812,  son 
of  Col.  Oliver  Towles,  of  the  Revolution,^  by  his  wife,  Mrs. 
Mary  Chew  Smith,  widow  of  John  ^mith,  of  Fredericks- 
burg, and  daughter  of  Larkin  Chew  (by  his  wife,  Mary  Bev- 
erley, married  1733),  sheriff  of  Spottsylvania  County,  Va., 
1739  and  1756,  son  of  Larkin  Chew  (by  his  wife,  Hannah 
Roy  (married  1700),  daughter  of  John  Roy,  of  Port  Royal, 
Va.),  of  Spottsylvania,  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses 
1723  and  1726,  son  of  Joseph  Chew  (by  his  wife.  Miss  Lar- 
kin, of  Annapolis,  Md.),  of  York  County,  Va.,  1659,  after- 
wards of  Anne  Arundel  County,  Md. ;  son  of  John  Chew, 
who  emigrated  to  Vu'ginia,  probably  from  Somersetshire, 

*  See  A   Memento  of  Ancestors  and  Ancestral  Homes,  by  Margaret  Rives 
Eiug,  published  by  Robert  Clarke  &  Co.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  1890. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  403 

England,  about  1620 ;  was  burgess  for  Hog  Island,  1623, 
1624,  and  1629,  and  for  York  County  in  1642-1644. 

In  several  of  the  Chew  pedigrees  it  is  stated  that  Mary 
Beverley,  who  married  in  1733  Larkin  Chew,  was  a  daugh- 
ter of  Robert  Beverley  the  historian,  by  his  wife,  Ursula 
Byrd ;  but  she  was  a  daughter  of  his  brother,  Harry  Bev- 
erley (by  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Smith,  a  granddaughter  of 
Maj.-Gen.  Robert  Smith,  of  "Brandon,"  Middlesex  County, 
Va.,  member  of  the  Council,  active  in  suppressing  Bacon's 
Rebellion,  etc.);  son  of  Maj.  Robert  Beverley,  who  came 
to  Virginia  from  Yorkshire,  England,  about  1633  (clerk 
of  the  House  of  Burgesses,  1670  ;  member  of  the  Council, 
1676 ;  chief  commander  against  Bacon,  etc. ;  died  in  1687), 
by  his  first  wife,  whose  tombstone  is  said  to  bear  the  fol- 
lowing epitaph  :  "  Here  lyeth  interred  Mrs.  Mary  Beverley, 
wife  of  Major  Robert  Beverley,  mother  of  9  sons  and  3 
daughters,  who  died  1st  June,  1678,  aged  41  years  and 
3  months,  having  been  married  to  him  12  years  and  2 
months." 

68.  Dr.  Landon  Cabell*  and  Anna  Maria  Towles  Rives 
had  issue  four :  — 

264.  i.  Margaret  ^  Rives. 

265.  ii.  Anna  Maria  ^  Rives. 

iii.  Landon  CabelP  Rives,  b.  June  30,  1825,  in  Vir- 
ginia ;  M.  D.  in  Virginia ;  surgeon  C.  S.  A. ; 
and  d.  "  from  pneumonia  contracted  by  expos- 
ure and  overwork  in  the  service,  March  8, 
1862,"  s.  p.  He  m.,  January  22,  1850,  Letitia 
Gamble  Watts,  daughter  of  Gen.  Edward  Watts 
(by  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Breckinridge),  attorney 
at  law,  speaker  of  the  Virginia  House  of  Dele- 
gates, etc.,  of  Roanoke  County,  Va. 

266.  iv.  Edward  ^  Rives. 

264.  Margaret  ^  Rives,  born  July  1,  1819,  in  Virginia ; 
married.  May  18,  1843,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  Hon.  Rufus 
King,  of  that  city.     He  was  born  May  30,  1817,  in  Chilli- 


404  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

cotlie,  Ohio;  educated  at  Kenyon  College  and  Harvard 
University ;  chose  the  law  as  a  profession,  and  became  one 
of  the  foremost  lawyers  not  only  in  Ohio  but  in  the  Union. 
He  steadily  refused  all  places  of  political  preferment,  but 
was  president  of  the  board  of  education,  chief  mover  in  the 
founding  of  the  Cincinnati  Public  Library,  president  of 
the  Law  Library  Association  and  of  the  Board  of  Trustees 
of  the  University  of  Cincinnati,  etc.  Author  of  ''  Ohio,"  in 
the  American  Commonwealths  Series  ;  son  of  Edward,  the 
son  of  Hon.  Rufus  King  (1755-1827),  of  New  York,  ora- 
tor, statesman,  and  diplomatist.  He  died  March  25,  1891, 
s.  p.  Mrs.  Margaret  Rives  King,  who  is  still  living,  is  a 
charming  authoress.  She  wrote  "  A  Memento  of  Ancestors 
and  Ancestral  Homes,"  "  Memoirs  of  the  Life  of  Mrs.  Sarah 
Peter,"  etc. 

265.  Anna  Maria  ^  Rives,  born  October  10,  1822 ;  mar- 
ried. May  13,  1841,  Josej^h  Longworth,  Esq.,  and  died  Jan- 
uary 31,  1862.  Her  husband  was  born  October  2,  1813 ; 
educated  at  Yale ;  studied  law,  but  devoted  his  life  to  the 
management  of  his  large  estate.  "  He  died  December  30, 
1883.  His  father,  Nicholas  Longworth  (1782-1863),  was 
one  of  the  founders  of  Cincinnati,  and  one  of  her  wealthiest 
and  most  public-sjDirited  citizens."     Issue  three  :  — 

267.  i.  Nicholas^  Lono-Avorth. 

268.  ii.  Landon  Rives  Lonsfworth. 

269.  iii.  Maria  Longworth. 

267.  Nicholas  ^  Longworth,  born  June  16,  1844 ;  grad- 
uated at  Harvard ;  chose  law  for  his  profession ;  married, 
October  2,  1866,  Susan  Walker  (daughter  of  Judge  Timothy 
Walker  (1802-1856),  of  the  Hamilton  County  Court  of 
Common  Pleas,  and  founder  of  the  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  Law 
School);  attorney  at  Center,  Ohio,  1869-1877;  on  the 
Court  of  Common  Pleas  of  Hamilton  County,  1877-1881 ; 
on  the  Supreme  Court  of  Ohio,  1881-1883;  resigned  in 
1883.  Translator  of  "  Electra,"  and  author  of  "  Silas 
Jackson's  Wrongs."     "  Judge  Nicholas  Longworth  was  a 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     405 

man  of  recognized  ability,  a  liberal,  kindly  man."  He  died 
in  January,  1890,  leaving  issue  three  :  — 

i.  Nicholas  ^  Longworth,  attorney  at  law. 

ii.  Annie  Rives  ^  Longworth. 
iii.  Clara  Eleanor^  Longworth. 

268.  Landon  Rives  ^  Longworth,  born  December  25, 
1846 ;  graduated  at  Harvard ;  chose  medicine  for  his  pro- 
fession ;  studied  medicine  in  New  York,  and  also  abroad ; 
"  a  physician  of  decided  promise ;  "  died  January  14, 1879 ; 
unmarried. 

269.  Maria  ^  Longworth  married,  first.  Col.  George  Ward 
Nichols,  who  served  on  the  staff  of  Generals  Fremont  and 
Sherman,  U.  S.  A.,  1862-1865.     He  died  September  15, 

1885.  Mrs.  Maria  Longworth  Nichols  married,  second,  in 

1886,  Hon.  Bellamy  Storer,  the  present  representative  of 
the  First  District  of  Ohio  in  the  United  States  Cong-ress. 
By  her  first  husband  Mrs.  Storer  had  two  children  :  — 

i.  Joseph  Longworth  ^  Nichols,  a  graduate  of  Harvard  and 
now  a  student  of  medicine  in  Johns  Hopkins  Univer- 
sity, Baltimore. 
ii.  Margaret  Rives  ^  Nichols. 

266.  Edward  Rives,  born  August  27,  1833,  in  Cincin- 
nati, Ohio ;  graduated  from  the  University  of  Virginia, 
1849-1850 ;  afterwards  studied  physic  and  graduated  from 
the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  New  York  city, 
then  served  a  year  at  Belle vue  and  two  years  at  Randall's 
Island  Children's  Hospital ;  was  in  partnership  with  his 
elder  brother  in  regular  practice  when  the  war  began ; 
entered  the  C.  S.  A. ;  brigade  surgeon  of  Pickett's  division, 
etc. ;  after  the  war,  began  the  practice  of  medicine  and  sur- 
gery in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  was  soon  appointed  professor 
of  physiology  in  the  Medical  College  of  Ohio.  "  His  office 
on  East  Third  Street,  near  Broadway  [Cincinnati],  was  a 
curiosity  shop  for  the  vivisectionist.  .  .  .  Here,  assisted  by 
the  brilliant  young  Landon  Longworth,  his  nephew  and 
pupil,  and  by  Henri  Richman,  Dr.  Rives  prepared  the  first 


406  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIX 

pathological  microscopic  slides  for  the  magic  lantern  with 
which  he  afterwards  demonstrated  his  lectures  at  the  Medi- 
cal College  of  Ohio."  He  was  pathologist  to  the  Cincinnati 
Hospital  from  October  4,  1872,  to  1874,  when,  on  account 
of  failing  health,  he  removed  to  Hillsboro,  Ohio,  where  he 
died  September  26,  1883,  s.  p.  "  He  had  long  been  a  com- 
municant of  the  Episcopal  Church,  and  was  a  true  Chris- 
tian gentleman."  He  married,  October  4,  1870,  Marie  T. 
Thompson,  of  Hillsboro,  Ohio  (who  is  still  living),  daughter 
of  Judge  James  Henry  Thompson,  born  near  Harrodsburg, 
Ky.,  September  27,  1812;  attorney  at  law;  married,  Sep- 
tember 21,  1837,  Eliza  J.  Trimble,  daughter  of  ex-Gov. 
Allen  Trimble  (by  his  second  wife,  Rachel  Woodrow),  of 
Hillsboro,  Ohio ;  at  which  time  he  removed  to  that  place 
from  Kentucky,  and  continued  the  practice  of  his  profession 
there,  where  his  wife  and  himself  still  live.  Both  were  of 
Virginia  ancestry,  Judge  Thompson  being  a  son  of  John  B. 
Thompson  (by  his  wife,  Nancy  P.  Robards,  daughter  of 
George  Robards),  son  of  Col.  John  Thompson.  Col.  John 
Thompson  and  George  Robards  were  both  Revolutionary 
officers,  who  removed  from  Virginia  to  Kentucky  about 
1787. 

Mrs.  Eliza  J.  Trimble  Thompson  was  the  leader  of  the 
temperance  movement  known  in  history  as  "  The  Woman's 
Crusade,"  which  was  inaugurated  in  Hillsboro,  Ohio,  De- 
cember 24,  1873,  of  which  "  The  Woman's  Christian 
Temperance  Union  "  is  the  crystallized  outcome. 


69.  Margaret  J.^  Rives,  born  at  "  Union  Hill,"  January 
9,  1792.  The  following  obituary  notice  gives  an  outline  of 
"  Aunt  Peggy's  "  hf e  :  — 

"  Died  on  the  17th  of  January,  1862,  at  Carlton,  the 
residence  of  her  brother  Alexander,  in  Albemarle  County, 
Va.,  Miss  Margaret  Jordan  Rives. 

"  Left  in  early  life  motherless,  she  became  the  stay  of  her 
father's  declining  years,  a  mother  to  those  bereft  like  her, 
and  spent  her  whole  life  at  Oakridge,  the  old  family  seat. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     407 

which  she  kept  and  improved,  like  a  faithful  steward,  with 
taste  and  prudence.  In  her  a  superior  mind  and  strongly 
marked  character  were  happily  blended  with  a  heart  whose 
generous  affections  won  the  esteem  and  the  love  of  all 
who  knew  her.  Enlightened  in  her  views  and  liberal  in 
her  acts,  she  has  left  a  large  circle  of  mourners  among  her 
friends,  relatives,  and  dependents.  Her  well-matured  attach- 
ment to  her  faith  and  its  practices  was  rewarded  by  the 
patient  endurance  of  great  suffering  during  her  illness,  and 
an  humble  hope  of  eternal  life." 


70.  William  Cabell  ^  Rives  was  born  (according  to  his 
grandfather's  diary  and  other  papers)  at  "  Union  Hill," 
"  on  the  morning  of  May  4th,  1793." 

He  was  educated  at  home,  at  Hampden  Sidney  (1807), 
and  William  and  Mary  College  (1809) ;  studied  law  and 
politics  under  the  direction  of  Thomas  Jefferson,  1809- 
1811 ;  was  aid-de-camp  to  Gen.  John  H.  Cocke  in  1814- 
1815,  with  a  body  of  militia  and  volunteers  called  out  for 
the  defense  of  Virginia;  came  to  the  bar  of  Nelson,  and 
soon  acquired  a  good  practice.  A  contemporary  describes 
him  as  "  a  small  man,  very  much  like  his  father,  with  a  fair 
complexion,  chestnut  hair,  blue  eyes,  and  handsome  fea- 
tures." He  represented  Nelson  County  in  the  Virginia 
House  of  Delegates,  1818-1821;  married,  March  24,  1819, 
Miss  Judith  Page  Walker,  of  Albemarle  ;  removed  to  that 
county  in  1821,  and  represented  it  in  the  Virginia  House 
of  Delegates,  1822-1823;  was  the  representative  of  this 
district  for  three  successive  terms  in  the  United  States 
House  of  Representatives,  March  4,  1823,  to  March  4, 
1829;  member  of  the  Board  of  Visitors,  University  of 
Virginia,  1828  - 1829 ;  was  the  minister  of  the  United 
States  to  France,  spring  of  1829  to  1832.  So  highly  were 
his  talents,  integrity,  and  ability  admired,  and  his  services 
approved,  that  at  the  first  meeting  of  the  Virginia  legisla- 
ture (December,  1832)  after  his  return,  he  was  elected  to 
the  United  States  Senate.       "  His  support  of  the  anti-nulli- 


408  THE  C  A  BELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

fication  proclamation  of  Gen.  Jackson  drew  upon  himself 
the  censure  of  the  Virginia  legislature,  in  consequence  of 
which  he  resigned  his  seat  in  the  Senate  in  1834,"  but  was 
reelected  in  1835,  and  served  to  the  end  of  the  term.  He 
was  again  reelected  in  1840,  and  remained  in  the  Senate 
until  1845. 

Prior  to  1840,  Mr.  Rives  was  a  decided  Democrat ;  in 
that  year  he  had  cause  to  abandon  the  support  of  Van  Buren 
for  the  Presidency,  but  did  not  then  go  over  to  the  Whig 
party.  He  remained  a  member  of  a  small  party,  generally 
called  the  Conservatives,  but  in  this  part  of  the  State 
called  "  the  Rives  party,"  resisting  certain  measures  of  the 
Democracy ;  but  in  1844,  when  the  Democrats  nominated 
James  K.  Polk  for  the  Presidency,  Mr.  Rives  abandoned 
the  Democratic  party  (as  did  many  of  his  relatives  and 
friends),  went  over  to  the  support  of  Mr.  Clay,  and  re- 
mained a  Whig  until  the  beginning  of  the  war.  The 
"  Globe,"  edited  by  Francis  P.  Blair,  the  organ  of  Van 
Buren's  administration,  declared  that  "  the  members  of  the 
Democratic  party  must  sink  or  swim  with  the  administra- 
tion." Mr.  Rives  was  assured,  should  he  remain  true  to 
this  Democratic  doctrine,  that  the  party  would  make  him 
President  of  the  United  States ;  but  he  could  not  forget 
that  "  he  had  a  country  to  serve  as  well  as  a  party  to 
obey." 

He  was  the  executor  of  his  father's  large  estate  in  1845  ; 
president  of  the  Virginia  Historical  Society  from  1847  for 
many  years ;  again  member  of  the  Board  of  Visitors  of  the 
University  of  Virginia,  1834-1849 ;  in  1849,  he  was  a 
second  time  appointed  minister  to  France,  and  so  continued 
until  the  fall  of  1853,  when  he  returned  to  "Castle  Hill," 
his  seat  in  Albemarle,  and  retired  from  political  life  until 
his  services  were  demanded  by  his  native  State  at  the  be- 
ginning of  the  late  war  between  the  States.  He  was  one 
of  the  five  commissioners  sent  from  Virginia  to  the  "  Peace 
Congress,"  which  met  in  Washington,  February  4,  1861. 
On  July  20, 1861,  he  was  elected  one  of  the  members  of  the 


HON.   WILLIAM   CABELL   RIVES 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  409 

Virginia  delegation  to  the  first  Confederate  Congress,  which 
assembled  in  Montgomery,  Ala. ;  in  February,  1862,  he  was 
elected  "  by  the  unanimous  vote  of  the  people  "  to  represent 
this  district  in  the  Confederate  House  of  Representatives, 
and  continued  in  that  office  until  the  end  of  the  war.  He 
was  a  Virginian,  pure  and  chaste ;  he  loved  her  soil,  her 
people,  her  institutions,  her  prosperity;  and  in  her  adversity 
and  hour  of  trial  he  remained  true  to  her.  After  the  war 
"  he  was  hopeful,  and  so  expressed  himself,  that  the  people 
of  the  United  States  would  eventually  do  right  and  restore 
his  native  Virginia  and  the  Southern  States  to  their  true  and 
proper  positions  in  the  Union."  He  died  in  this  faith,  at 
"  Castle  Hill,"  April  25,  1868 ;  and  in  Walker's  church  in 
Albemarle  there  is  a  beautiful  marble  tablet  erected  to  his 
memory,  bearing  the  following  inscription  :  "  In  memory  of 
one  of  the  founders  of  this  church,  William  Cabell  Rives, 
LL.  D.,  statesman,  diplomatist,  historian,  born  May  4, 
1793  ;  died  April  25,  1868." 

"  Uniting  a  clear  and  capacious  intellect,  a  courageous 
and  generous  temper,  with  sound  learning  and  commanding 
eloquence,  he  won  a  distinguished  place  among  the  fore- 
most men  whom  Virginia  has  consecrated  to  the  service  of 
the  country ;  while  he  added  lustre  to  his  talents  by  the 
purity  and  dignity  of  his  public  career,  and  adorned  his 
private  life  with  all  the  virtues  which  can  grace  the  charac- 
ter of  husband,  father,  friend,  and  Christian." 
"  Blessed  are  the  dead  which  die  m  the  Lord." 
For  fifty-four  years  he  was  a  servant  of  the  public  ;  from 
1823  to  his  death  he  published  many  articles,  addresses, 
speeches,  and  books  (the  most  imj^ortant  of  these  being 
"  The  Life  and  Times  of  James  Madison,"  three  volumes, 
Boston,  1859-1869,  and  the  "  Letters  and  other  Writings  of 
James  Madison,"  four  volumes,  Philadelphia,  1865)  ;  and 
therefore  it  is  not  possible  to  give  within  the  limits  of  this 
sketch  an  account  of  his  life,  acts,  and  writings ;  but  the 
following  extract  from  "  The  Richmond  Whig  "  will  show 
the  place  which  he  held  in  the  hearts  of  his  countrymen  :  — 


410  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

"  Last  Saturday,  at  his  residence,  Castle  Hill,  in  Albe- 
marle, at  the  age  of  seventy-five  years,  the  most  eminent 
citizen  of  Virginia,  William  Cabell  Rives,  breathed  his  last. 
He  had  been  for  several  years  in  infirm  health,  but  retained 
sufficient  mental  and  bodily  vigor  for  the  occupations  and 
enjoyments  appropriate  to  the  declining  years  of  a  life 
rendered  illustrious  by  learning,  by  public  services,  by  vir- 
tue, by  association  with  the  most  renowned  men  of  this 
and  other  lands,  and  by  participation  in  the  weightest  and 
most  momentous  events  that  have  marked  the  history  of 
the  country.  It  was  the  great  merit  of  Mr.  Rives  that  he 
acquired  distinction  and  commanded  popular  favor  by  the 
pure  force  of  merit.  His  reputation  was  in  no  part  due 
to  the  ultraism  of  the  partisan,  or  to  the  seductive  arts  or 
inflammatory  power  of  the  orator ;  his  popularity  was  ac- 
quired without  flatteries  to  the  multitude,  or  any  attempt  to 
become  a  people's  man.  Without  hauteur  or  repulsiveness, 
he  was  at  all  times  dignified,  and  never  forgot  nor  allowed 
others  to  forget  that  he  was  a  gentleman.  As  a  public 
speaker,  he  scorned  all  the  tricks  of  the  hustings,  —  every- 
thing that  savored  of  ad  coptandum,  —  and  discussed  the 
higher  topics  and  graver  issues  of  the  day  in  the  language 
of  a  scholar  and  with  the  abiUty  of  a  statesman.  It  may 
be  doubted  whether  on  any  occasion  of  his  Hfe,  before  any 
assembly  of  listeners,  he  ever  uttered  a  sentence  that  in  its 
language  or  its  sentiment,  or  in  the  mode  of  its  delivery, 
would  have  been  unseemly  in  the  most  august  dehberative 
body.  But  let  it  not  be  supposed  that  he  was  frigid, 
or  stiff,  or  pedantic,  or  affected ;  not  at  all.  The  bearing 
we  have  spoken  of  was  altogether  natural,  easy,  and  grace- 
ful, and  his  style  of  speech  was  the  vernacular  of  one 
deeply  versed  in  the  best  authors,  and  habitually  accus- 
tomed to  the  most  cultivated  society.  His  opportunities 
were  very  unusual,  and  with  excellent  abilities  by  nature, 
and  ambition  that  aspired  rather  to  deserving  than  winning 
success,  it  wiU  be  readily  understood  that  he  turned  them 
to  the  best  account.     Altogether,  there  is  not  much  risk  in 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  411 

saying  that  Mr.  Rives  was,  with  the  exception  of  his  great 
teacher,  Mr.  Jefferson,  the  most  accomplished  man  the 
State  of  Virginia  has  produced ;  and  we  are  not  prepared 
to  name  any  living  person  in  the  whole  country  who  has 
higher  claims  in  this  respect.  He  was  born  almost  con- 
temporaneously with  the  Constitution,  and  in  his  early 
youth  he  sat  at  the  feet  of  more  than  one  Gamaliel  among 
its  framers.  Constitutional  jurisprudence,  the  philosophy 
of  government,  and  the  history  of  nations  were  favorite 
studies  with  him,  and  in  these  subjects  he  was  profoundly 
learned. 

"  But  we  are  not  about  to  undertake  an  analysis  of  his 
character,  endowments,  and  attainments,  or  to  give  an  out- 
line of  his  life  and  services.  This  task  will  be  performed, 
doubtless,  by  more  competent  hands.  The  announcement 
of  his  death,  even  at  the  advanced  age  when  further  public 
service  was  not  to  be  expected  of  him,  will  bring  a  feeling 
of  sadness  and  depression  over  many  thousands  who  have 
been  accustomed  to  lean  with  confidence  on  his  counsels, 
and  to  look  with  hope  to  the  influence  he  might  exert  over 
public  affairs.  In  his  death  a  bright  and  perfect  orb  drops 
from  the  horizon  of  intellect." 

His  wife,  Judith  Page  Walker,  was  born  at  Castle  Hill, 
March  24,  1802,  and  died  there  January  23,  1882.  She 
was  the  author  of  "  The  Canary  Bird,"  1835-1836  ;  "  Res- 
idence in  Europe,"  1842  ;  "  Epitome  of  the  Bible,"  1846- 
1847 ;  "  Home  and  the  World,"  1857.  She  was  the  daugh- 
ter of  Hon.  Francis  Walker  (born  1764  ;  died  1806),  M.  C. 
from  Orange  and  Albemarle  1793-1795,  by  his  wife,  Jane 
Byrd  Nelson,  daughter  of  Col.  Hugh  Nelson  (1750-1800) 
by  his  wife,  Judith  Page,  daughter  of  Hon.  John  Page 
by  his  wife,  Jane  Byrd,  daughter  of  Col.  William  Byrd  ^ 
(1674-1744),  son  of  Col.  William  Byrd,  the  emigrant,  by 
his  w^ife,  Mary  Horsmanden  (1653-1699),  daughter  of  Col. 
Warham  Horsmanden,  of  the  Virginia  Council,  son  of  Rev. 
Daniel  Horsmanden,  of  Purley,  England,  by  his  wife,  Ursula 

^   See  The  Page  Family  in  Virginia,  by  Dr.  R.  C.  M.  Page,  of  New  York. 


412  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

St.  Leger,  daughter  of  Sir  Warliam  St.  Leger,  of  the  Vir- 
ginia Company  of  London  (by  his  wife,  Mary  Hayward, 
a  niece  of  Sir  Thomas  Smith,  the  manager  of  the  business 
portion  of  the  founding  of  this  nation),  son  of  Anthony  St. 
Leger,  by  his  wife,  Mary  Scott,  first  cousin  to  Sir  Samuel 
Argall,  who  saved  the  feeble  colony  in  Virginia  from  famine 
in  July,  1609,  and  by  whose  decisive  action  in  1613  New 
England  was  reserved  for  the  Enghsh.  The  numerous 
descendants  of  Ursula  St.  Leger  in  America  have  good  rea- 
son to  be  proud  of  their  "founders'  kin."^ 

Hon.  Francis  Walker  (1764-1806)  was  a  son  of  Dr. 
Thomas  Walker,  born  "  Jan'y  y®  25,  1715,"  in  King  and 
Queen  County,  Virginia ;  "  surveyor,  explorer,  physician, 
and  merchant ;  "  married,  about  1741,  Mrs.  Nicholas  Meri- 
wether, of  Louisa  County  (see  under  10).  Thomas  Walker 
owned  land  on  Goldmines  Creek,  in  present  Louisa  County, 
in  1735.  (This  was  probably  Dr.  Walker's  father.  Col. 
Thomas  Walker.)  Li  July,  1744,  Thomas  Walker  bought 
300  acres  of  land  in  that  county  from  Robert  Rose.  This 
was  probably  Dr.  Walker  himself ;  but  it  is  hard  to  dis- 
tinsfuish  between  the  Thomas  Walkers. 

I  do  not  know  when  his  explorations  to  the  westward 
began,  but  early  in  1748,  in  company  with  Colonels  Wood, 
Patton,  and  Buchanan,  and  Capt.  Charles  Campbell,  \\ith 
a  number  of  hunters  (among  whom  was  John  Findlay, 
of  Louisa),  he  made  an  exploring  tour  on  the  Western 
waters,  passing  Powell's  Valley,  etc.  "  On  June  12,  1749, 
the  Loyal  Company  was  incorporated.  Col.  Thomas  Walker 
(the  father  of  Dr.  Thomas,  who  was  also  interested,  and 
finally  became  the  chief)  being  the  chief  person  in  the 
scheme.  They  made  the  entry  on  the  west  side  of  the 
Great  Mountains,  upon  the  line  between  North  Carolina 
and  Virginia,  of  800,000  acres  of  land,  which  had  been 
located  by  Dr.  Walker  and  his  companions  in  1748,  which 
lands  they  sell  to  settlers  at  £3  ($10)  the  hundi-ed  acres." 

In  1750,  he  made  another  tour  to  the  westward  (see  his 

1  See  The  Genesis  of  the  United  States,  pp.  814,  918,  990,  896,  1011,  etc. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN-  413 

"Journal  of  an  Exploration  in  the  Spring  of  the  Year 
1750,"  pubHshed  by  WiUiam  Cabell  Rives,  LL.  B.,  at  Bos- 
ton, 1888 ;  and  see  the  preface  for  an  extended  sketch  of 
Dr.  Walker).  He  is  said  to  have  represented  Louisa  in  the 
House  of  Burgesses,  1752-1758.  About  1753,  there  was  a 
project  for  exploring  a  route  to  the  Pacific,  and  Dr.  Walker, 
it  seems,  was  to  be  the  chief  conductor  of  the  whole  affair ; 
but  the  prosecution  of  the  scheme  was  brought  to  an  end 
by  the  commencement  of  hostilities  between  the  colony  and 
the  French  and  their  Indians.^  He  was  appointed  by  Din^ 
widcUe,  on  November  22,  1754,  adjutant  of  the  frontier 
counties ;  December  28,  1754,  with  Charles  Dick  (a  friend 
of  the  Washingtons),  joint  commissaries  for  the  forces  in- 
tended for  the  Ohio  (Braddock)  army ;  was  at  the  defeat, 
July  9,  1755  ;  "  Commissary  of  Provisions  for  the  forces  in 
your  country's  pay,"  1756-1757  ;  "  Contractor  for  victual- 
ling the  rangers  and  militia  in  Augusta  "  in  1757-1758,  for 
which  he  was  allowed  £349  12s.  9d.  by  the  House  of  Bur- 
gesses in  September,  1758 ;  physician  to  Peter  Jefferson  in 
his  last  illness,  and  after  his  death  one  of  the  executors  of 
his  last  will  (the  other  executors  were  Hon.  Peter  Randolph, 
Esq.,  Thomas  Turpin  the  elder,  John  Nicholas,  and  John 
Harvie) ;  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  from  Louisa 
in  1758,  and  probably  to  the  end  of  the  session  in  March, 
1761 ;  "  in  1760  again  passed  over  CHnch  and  Powell's 
rivers  into  what  is  now  Kentucky ;  "  after  May  1,  1761,  his 
residence  (Castle  Hill)  was  in  Albemarle,  and  in  March, 
1762,  he  was  appointed  by  Gov.  Fauquier  to  settle  a  differ- 
ence about  the  site  for  the  new  court  house  of  that  county; 
one  of  the  commissioners  at  Fort  Stanwix,  1768 ;  said  to 
have  been  a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  from  Louisa 
County,  1761-1768 ;  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Bur- 
gesses from  Albemarle,  1768-1771  (his  son  John  succeeded 
Mm,  1772-1775) ;  member  of  the  Albemarle  Furnace  Com- 
pany, 1771 ;  with  John  Harvie,  appointed  to  treat  with  the 
Indians  after  their  defeat  at  Point  Pleasant,  on  October  10, 

^  See  Memoirs  of  a  Huguenot  Family,  pp.  389-392. 


414  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

1774.  (He  was  one  of  the  executors  of  the  will  of  Harvie's 
father  in  February,  1768.)  I  think  that  he  was  a  member 
of  the  House  of  Burgesses  from  Louisa  County,  1772-1775. 
He  was  a  member  from  Louisa  of  the  Revolutionary  Con- 
ventions of  August,  1774,  March,  1775,  July,  1775,  and  De- 
cember, 1775  ;  member  of  the  Virginia  Committee  of  Safety 
from  December  16,  1775  ;  of  the  Council  of  State  from 
1777  ;  commissioner  for  Virgina  in  running  her  southwest- 
ern boundary  to  the  Tennessee  River,  1779-1780 ;  Tarleton 
at  "  Castle  Hill,"  June  4,  1781 ;  member  of  the  legislative 
committee  for  vindicating  Virginia's  claims  to  her  western 
territory  in  1782 ;  Jefferson  applied  to  him  for  information 
in  regard  to  the  animals  in  America,  September  25,  1783. 
His  first  wife  died  in  1778,  and  he  married  (second),  about 
1781,  Elizabeth  Thornton,  a  cousin  of  Gen.  Washington's. 
Her  will,  dated  July  3,  1795,  was  recorded  at  September 
court,  1796.  She  left  no  children.  Thomas  Walker's  will, 
dated  May  13.  1788,  was  recorded,  December,  1794,  court 
of  Albemarle  County.  He  died  November  9,  1794,  leaving 
issue  by  his  first  wife  only.  In  the  early  part  of  his  hfe  it 
is  hard  to  discriminate  between  his  father  Thomas  and  him- 
self, and  in  the  latter  part  between  his  son  Thomas  and 
himself ;  but  I  have  been  as  careful  as  I  could  be. 

70.  Hon.  William  Cabell*  and  Judith  Page  Rives  had 
issue  five :  — 

270.  i.  Francis  Robert  ^  Rives. 

271.  ii.  William  Cabell' Rives. 

272.  iii.  Alfred  Landon '  Rives. 

273.  iv.  Amelie  Louise^  Rives. 

V.  Ella '  Rives,  died  unmarried. 

270.  Francis  Robert'  Rives,  born  at  "Castle  Hill,"  Feb- 
ruary 16, 1822  ;  prepared  for  college  by  private  tutors  ;  at 
the  University  of  Virginia,  1838-1840,  where  he  graduated 
in  three  years  with  honors,  with  the  degree  of  M.  A.  He 
took  the  law  course  at  college,  and  later  studied  for  the 
bar,  but   before   being  admitted  was  appointed  by  Presi- 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     415 

dent  Tyler  secretary  of  legation  in  London.  The  United 
States  minister  in  London  at  that  time  was  Edward  Everett. 
After  serving  as  secretary  of  legation  from  1842  to  1845, 
Mr.  Rives  returned  to  the  United  States,  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  New  York,  and  there  formed  a  partnership  with 
Alexander  Hamilton,  Jr.  (a  grandson  of  the  first  Secretary 
of  the  Treasury).  Mr.  Rives  married  in  New  York,  May 
16,  1848,  Matilda  Antonia  Barclay,  and  resided  in  that 
city  until  he  retired  from  active  practice,  about  1862,  after 
which  time  he  lived  much  in  the  country,  devoting  himself 
to  farming  and  kindred  pursuits.  He  was  for  some  years 
president  of  "  The  New  York  Farmers,"  an  association  of 
gentlemen  having  country  seats  near  the  city.  He  was  also 
for  a  time  president  of  the  Southern  Society,  governor 
of  "  The  Knickerbocker  Club,"  a  member  of  "The  Coach- 
ing Club,"  etc.,  etc.  The  University  of  Virginia  sent  him 
as  its  delegate  to  the  250th  anniversary  of  the  founding  of 
Harvard  College.  He  died  at  Carnwath,  Dutchess  County, 
New  York,  July  16,  1891. 

His  wife,  Matilda  Antonia  Barclay,  was  born  in  New 
York  city,  December  7,  1824,  educated  there,  and  there 
spent  nearly  the  whole  of  her  life.  She  was  a  woman  of  a 
singularly  strong  character,  with  a  clear  intellect  and  an 
unusual  capacity  for  administration.  Her  life  was  devoted 
to  her  children  and  to  her  husband.  She  died  in  the  city 
of  New  York,  January  25,  1888.  Being  an  only  child,  she 
inherited  her  father's  fortune  and  his  country  place,  Carn- 
wath. Her  father,  George  Barclay,  was  born  at  Annapolis 
Royal,  Nova  Scotia,  July  4,  1790,  during  the  exile  of  his 
parents ;  married,  at  Cheltenham,  in  England,  December  8, 
1818,  Louise  Anna  Matilda  Aufrere  ;  came  to  New  York, 
entered  into  mercantile  business,  was  a  successful  merchant, 
and  retired  from  business  about  1854  with  a  considerable 
fortune  ;  died  at  Carnwath,  Dutchess  County,  N.  Y.,  July 
27,  1869.  His  father,  Thomas  Barclay,  was  born  in  the 
city  of  New  York,  October  12,  1753 ;  graduated  at  King's 
College,  N.  Y.,  in  1772  ;  married,  October  2,  1775,  Susan 


416  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

De  Lancey  (born  September  15,  1755  ;  died  May  2,  1837), 
fifth  daughter  of  Peter  De  Lancey,  of  "West  Farms,  West- 
chester County,  N.  Y.,  and  niece  of  Gov.  James  De  Lancey 
and  Gen.  OHver  De  Lancey.  This  was  a  famous  Tory 
family  of  New  York.  See  Bolton's  "  History  of  Westches- 
ter County." 

In  April,  1777,  Thomas  Barclay  was  commissioned  cap- 
tain in  Beverley  Robinson's  Loyal  American  Regiment ; 
promoted  major,  October  7,  1777  ;  served  in  New  York, 
Virginia,  and  the  Carolinas  under  Sir  W.  Howe,  Sir  H. 
Chnton,  and  Lord  Rawdon  ;  removed  to  Nova  Scotia  at  the 
peace  in  1783 ;  became  speaker  of  the  Assembly ;  in  1799, 
appointed  H.  B.  M.  consul-general  at  New  York,  and  con- 
tinued in  that  ofiice  until  1817 ;  was  commissioner  for 
running  the  boundaries  between  the  United  States  and  the 
British  possessions  under  Jay's  treaty  of  1794,  and  the 
fourth  and  fifth  articles  of  the  Treaty  of  Ghent ;  and  died 
in  the  city  of  New  York,  where  sixty  years  of  his  life 
had  been  passed,  April  21,  1830.  He  was  a  son  of  Rev. 
Henry  Barclay,  D.  D.,  rector  of  Trinity  Church  ;  grandson 
of  Rev.  Thomas  Barclay,  the  first  rector  of  St.  Peter's 
Church,  Albany ;  and  great  -  grandson  of  John  Barclay, 
who  emigrated  to  this  country  in  1683,  being  surveyor- 
general  of  East  Jersey.  The  family  was  Scotch,  but  in 
each  generation  the  above-named  Barclays  married  Dutch 
women. 

Miss  Louisa  Anna  Matilda  Aufrere,  who  married  in 
1818  George  Barclay  (1790-1869),  was  a  daughter  of 
Anthony  Aufrere  (born  1756 ;  died  November  29,  1833), 
of  Hoveton  Hall,  Norfolk,  England,  —  a  family  of  Huguenot 
origin;  see  Burke's  "  Landed  Gentry"  for  full  genealogy, — 
by  his  wife  (married  February  19,  1791),  Matilda  Lockhart 
(born  1774;  died  1850),  youngest  daughter  of  General 
James  Lockhart,  of  Lee  and  Carnwath,  in  Scotland.  For 
the  genealogy  of  this  family,  see  Burke's  "  Peerage,"  under 
Sir  S.  Lockhart,  baronet. 

270.  Francis  Robert^  and  Matilda  Antonia  Rives  had 
issue  :  — 


274. 

i. 

275. 

ii. 

276. 

iii. 

277. 

iv. 

278. 

V. 

279. 

vi. 

THE  FOUNDER'S   GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  417 

George  Lockhart  ^  Rives. 
Ella  Louisa  ^  Rives. 
Francis  Robert  ^  Rives. 
Maud  Antonia  ^  Rives. 
Constance  Evelyn  ^  Rives. 
Reginald  William^  Rives. 

274.  George  Lockhart  ®  Rives,  born  in  New  York  city, 
May  1,  1849 ;  graduated  at  Columbia  College,  N.  Y.,  in 
1868 ;  entered  Trinity  College,  Cambridge,  England,  and 
graduated  there  with  honors,  in  January,  1872;  received 
the  degree  of  LL.  B.  from  Columbia  College,  N.  Y.,  in 
June,  1873 ;  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  New  York  in 
1874,  and  has  practiced  law  since.  Received  the  degree 
of  M.  A.  from  both  Columbia  College,  N.  Y.,  and  the  Uni- 
versity of  Cambridge,  England.  Was  assistant  Secretary 
of  State  of  the  United  States  from  November  19,  1887,  to 
March  6,  1889.  Has  held  no  other  public  office.  Is  a 
trustee  of  Columbia  College,  of  the  Lenox  Library,  etc.,  etc. 
He  married  (first).  May  21,  1873,  Caroline  Morris  Kean, 
of  Elizabeth,  N.  J.,  the  eldest  daughter  of  John  Kean,  of 
that  city,  and  his  wife,  Lucy  Halsted,  daughter  of  Caleb 
0.  Halsted,  for  many  years  president  of  the  Bank  of  the 
Manhattan  Company  in  New  York.  Mr.  Kean's  grand- 
father, John  Kean,  was  from  South  Carolina.  His  great- 
grandfather, Lewis  Morris,  was  a  signer  of  the  Declaration 
of  Independence. 

Mrs.  Caroline  Morris  Kean  Rives  died  March  29,  1887, 
leaving  one  child  :  — 
i.  George  Barclay'  Rives,  b.  June  19,  1874. 

274.  Mr.  Rives  married  (secondly),  March  20,  1889, 
Mrs.  Sara  "Whiting  Belmont,  of  Newport,  R.  I.  Her  father 
was  Augustus  Whiting,  a  merchant  of  New  York  and  New 
Orleans.  Her  mother,  Sarah  Swan,  was  a  daughter  of  Judge 
Gustavus  Swan,  a  well-known  lawyer  of  Ohio.  Issue  :  — 
ii.  Francis  Bayard'  Rives,  b.  January  11,  1890. 
iii.  Mildred  Sara'  Rives,  b.  July  31,  1893. 


418  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

275.  Ella  Louisa^  Rives,  born  March  8,  1851;  married, 
January  7,  1875,  David  King  (1),  son  of  the  late  Dr.  David 
King  (2),  a  prominent  physician  in  Newport,  R.  L,  who 
was  a  son  of  another  Dr.  David  King  (3)  (originally  of 
Taunton,  Mass.)  and  Ann  Gordon,  his  wife,  a  daughter  of 
Gen.  George  Gordon,  of  Connecticut.  Mr.  David  King's  (1) 
mother  was  Sarah  Wheaton,  daughter  of  Rev.  Salmon 
Wheaton,  for  thirty  years  rector  of  Trinity  Church,  New- 
port, R.  I.,  and  of  his  wife,  Ann  Dehon,  a  sister  of  Bishop 
Dehon,  of  South  Carolina.  Mr.  David  King  (1)  died  in 
Washington,  D.  C,  in  March,  1894,  leaving  issue :  — 

i.  Maud  Gwendolen  ^  King,  b.  October  2,  1876. 
ii.  Philip  Wheaton  Rives'  King,  b.  June  12,  1879. 

276.  Francis  Robert  ^  Rives,  Jr.,  born  in  New  York  city, 
January  28,  1853 ;  married  (first),  April  29,  1879,  Georgia 
Ann  Fellows.  She  died  January  4,  1880,  s.  p.  He  mar- 
ried (secondly),  August  25,  1887,  Frances  Agnes  Bininger, 
who  is  still  living.  He  died  at  Freehold,  N.  J.,  January  7, 
1890,  s.  p. 

277.  Maud  Antonia  ^  Rives,  born  at  Carnwath,  Dutchess 
County,  N.  Y.,  July  17,  1855;  married,  May  23,  1882, 
Walker  Breese  Smith,  son  of  the  late  William  Henry  Smith, 
of  New  York,  and  his  wife,  Susan  Walker,  of  Utica,  N.  Y. 
Issue :  — 

i.  Evelyn  Rives '  Smith,  b.  June  15,  1888. 

278.  Constance  Evelyn  ^  Rives,  twin  sister  to  Maud,  mar- 
ried, June  24,  1884,  John  Borland,  son  of  Melanchthon 
Woolsey  Borland,  of  Boston,  and  his  wife,  Julia  Gibson. 
John  Borland  died  April  17,  1893,  at  Washington,  D.  C, 
leaving  issue :  — 

i.  Maud  Rives  ^  Borland,  born  April  14,  1886. 
ii.  John  '  Borland,  Jr.,  b.  October  15,  1887. 
iii.  Ella  Aufrere'  Borland,  b.  September  25,  1889. 

279.  Reginald  William  ^  Rives,  born  in  New  York  city. 
May  18,  1861 ;  graduated  from  Columbia  College,  1882. 
Received  the  degree  of  LL.  B.  from  Columbia  College  Law 
School  in  1884,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  New  York 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  419 

the  same  year,  but  has  never  practiced  law ;  is  engaged  in 
farming.  He  married,  June  1,  1887,  Mary  Caroline  Bulk- 
ley,  daughter  of  the  late  Edward  Henry  Bulkley,  of  New 
York,  and  his  wife,  Catharine  Wolfe  Clark,  daughter  of 
Richard  Smith  Clark,  of  New  York.  Issue  :  — 
i.  Helen  MHdred^  Rives,  b.  May  26,  1888. 
ii.  Reginald  Bulkley^  Rives,  b.  April  9,  1890. 

271.  WiUiam  CabelP  Rives,  Jr.,  born  at  "  Castle  Hill," 
December  19,  1825 ;  educated  under  successive  private 
tutors  or  at  private  schools  in  France  and  the  United 
States,  1830-1839 ;  at  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.,  1840-1841 ; 
the  Episcopal  High  School  near  Alexandria,  Va.,  1841- 
1842 ;  the  University  of  Virginia,  1842-1845 ;  and  at  the 
Harvard  Law  School  in  1845-1847,  where  he  received  the 
degree  of  LL.  B.  He  commenced  the  practice  of  law  in 
Virginia,  but  his  legal  career  was  interrupted  by  his  mar- 
riage to  Grace  Winthrop  Sears,  of  Boston,  in  May,  1849, 
and,  his  father  having  been  again  appointed  minister  to 
France,  he  now  made  a  second  visit  to  Europe.  Leaving 
Paris  February  24,  1851,  he  traveled  for  some  time  in 
Spain,  which  was  then  much  less  known  to  American  trav- 
elers than  at  the  present  day.  He  was  offered  the  position 
of  secretary  of  legation  at  Madrid  by  Mr.  Barringer,  then 
United  States  minister  there,  but  decided  to  decline  it.  He 
returned  to  the  United  States  in  the  autumn  of  1851 ;  took 
up  his  residence  on  Beacon  Street,  Boston,  and  made  that 
his  home  until  about  1874.  He,  however,  frequently  vis- 
ited his  Virginia  home,  for  which  he  always  manifested  the 
greatest  affection,  and,  a  few  years  before  the  Civil  War, 
built  a  house  about  three  miles  from  his  father's  residence, 
and  with  his  family  spent  much  time  there.  The  war  be- 
tween the  States  separated  Mr.  Rives  from  his  Virginia 
relatives,  and  although  his  heart  was  naturally  with  his 
native  State,  he  retained  to  the  fullest  extent  the  regard 
and  sympathy  of  his  Northern  friends.  In  some  instances 
he  was  enabled  to  alleviate  the  trials  of  Southern  prisoners 


420  THE   CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

at  the  North.  After  the  war  he  was  of  much  assistance  to 
his  father  in  attending  to  the  pubHeation  of  the  final  vol- 
ume of  the  latter's  Life  of  Madison,  to  which  he  prefixed  an 
editorial  note. 

He  spent  the  greater  part  of  the  time  from  January, 
1870,  to  1874,  with  his  family  in  various  parts  of  Europe. 
In  1874,  he  removed  from  Boston  to  Newport,  R.  I.,  and 
the  remainder  of  his  life,  with  the  exception  of  another 
visit  to  Europe  in  1880-1881  and  various  travels  to  differ- 
ent places  in  the  United  States,  occasioned  by  trying  illness 
in  his  family  circle,  was  passed  at  Newport,  at  Washington, 
D.  C,  and  at  his  Virginia  residence. 

On  Commencement  Day,  June  27,  1883,  he  delivered  an 
address  before  the  Society  of  the  Alumni  of  the  University 
of  Virginia,  in  commemoration  of  Prof.  William  B.  Rogers, 
LL.  D. ;  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Webster  Historical  So- 
ciety of  Boston,  July  24,  1883 ;  long  a  member  of  the  Vir- 
ginia Historical  Society ;  elected  an  honorary  member  of 
The  Filson  Club  of  Louisville,  Ky.,  September  25,  1884 ; 
corresponding  member  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Soci- 
ety, November  10,  1887 ;  member  of  the  American  Histor- 
ical Association,  etc.  In  1888,  he  published  the  journal  of 
his  great-grandfather,  Dr.  Thomas  Walker,  with  an  admira- 
bly written  introduction.  He  possessed  a  wide  acquaint- 
ance not  only  with  English  and  classical  literature,  but  also 
with  much  of  French,  German,  and  Italian,  speaking  the  first 
two  languages  fluently,  and  having  a  fair  knowledge  of  the 
last.  He  was  tall  in  stature,  dignified  in  his  bearing,  full 
of  a  winning  courtesy  which  captivated  the  hearts  of  all 
who  knew  him,  with  the  keenest  sense  of  honor  and  duty, 
deeply  affectionate  in  his  family  relations,  and  a  sincere 
Christian.  He  died  suddenly,  and  apparently  painlessly,  in 
Washington,  D.  C,  April  7,  1889,  and  was  buried,  April 
10,  at  the  beautiful  little  church  at  Longwood,  near  Bos- 
ton, Mass.,  erected  by  his  father-in-law,  the  Hon.  David 
Sears. 

His  wife  (Grace  Winthrop  Sears,  born  August  23, 1828), 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  421 

who  survives  him,  is  the  daughter  of  the  late  Hon.  David 
Sears,  of  Boston,  Mass.,  through  whom  she  is  a  Hneal 
descendant  of  John  Winthrop,  the  first  governor  of  Mas- 
sachusetts. Her  mother,  Miriam  Clarke  Mason,  was  a 
daughter  of  the  Hon.  Jonathan  Mason  (1752-1831), 
United  States  Senator  (1800-1803),  and  member  of  the 
United  States  House  of  Representatives  (1817-1820)  from 
Massachusetts.  An  account  of  the  Sears  family  is  given  in 
"  Genealogies  and  Biographical  Sketches  of  the  Ancestry 
and  Descendants  of  Richard  Sears,  the  Pilgrim,"  etc.,  Bos- 
ton, 1857. 

271.  "William  Cabell  and  Grace   Winthrop  Rives   had 
issue  three  children  :  — 
280.     i.  William  Cabell «  Rives. 

ii.  Alice  *^  Rives,  b.  in  Boston,  Mass.,  May  6,  1852 ; 
educated  there  and  in  Europe.     Her  lungs  hav- 
ing become  affected,  she  went  with  her  parents 
in  1886  to  South  Carolina,  northern  New  York, 
and  Colorado,  in  the  fruitless  attempt  to  arrest 
the  disease,  and  died  at  Denver,  Colo.,  March 
29,  1887,  unmarried, 
iii.  Arthur  Landon  ^  Rives,  b.  in  Boston  November  6, 
1853,    and   educated   there ;   took   the   A.    B. 
degree  at  Harvard  College  in  1874,  and  after- 
wards studied  law  at  the  Harvard  Law  School, 
but  has  never  practiced  the  profession.     He  is 
a  member  of  the   Virginia   Historical  Society, 
etc. ;  unmarried. 
280.  William  Cabell^  Rives,  born  in  Paris,  France,  Jan- 
uary 10,  1850 ;  at  Harvard  CoUege,  1867-1869 ;  at  Corpus 
Christi  College,   Oxford,  England,    1870-1874,    receiving 
from  the  university  the  degree  of  B.  A.  in  1874,  and  M.  A. 
in  1878  ;  commenced  the  study  of  medicine  at  the  Harvard 
Medical  School  in   1874,  and  continued  it  at  the  Medical 
Department   of  the   University  of  the  city  of  New  York, 
where  he  received  the  M.  D.  degree  in  !^ebruary,   1877 ; 
married,  April  29,  1876,  Mary  F.  Rhinelander,  of  New 


422  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

York ;  continued  his  medical  studies  at  Vienna,  Austria,  in 
the  winter  of  1880-1881 ;  was  for  some  time  one  of  the 
physicians  of  the  Newport  [R.  I.]  Hospital,  secretary  to  the 
Board  of  Health,  Newport,  etc. ;  removed  to  New  York 
several  years  ago,  and  is  now  a  resident  of  that  city.  His 
wife,  Mary  F.  Rhinelander,  was  the  daughter  of  Frederick 
W.  Rhinelander,  of  New  York,  and  his  wife,  Frances  D. 
Skinner. 

Frederick  W.  Rhinelander  was  a  son  of  Frederick  W. 
Rhinelander,  Sr.,  and  his  wife,  Mary  Lucretia  Lucy  Ann 
Stevens,  daughter  of  Gen.  Ebenezer  Stevens  (who  com- 
manded the  United  States  artillery  at  Saratoga)  by  his 
second  wife,  Lucretia  (widow  of  Richardson  Sands),  daugh- 
ter of  Judge  John  Ledyard,  of  Hartford,  Conn.,  and  aunt 
of  John  Ledyard,  the  celebrated  traveler. 

Frances  D.  Skinner,  was  the  daughter  of  Rev.  Thomas 
Harvey  Skinner,  D.  D.,  professor  in  the  Union  Theological 
Seminary,  N.  Y.  (son  of  Joshua  Skinner  and  Martha  Ann 
Blount,  of  Harvey's  Neck,  N.  C),  and  his  second  wife, 
Frances  Louisa  Davenport,  daughter  of  Hon.  James  Daven- 
port, the  son  of  Abraham  Davenport,  the  hero  of  Whittier's 
poem.^ 

272.  Alfred  Landon^  Rives,  born  in  Paris,  France, 
March  25,  1830 ;  educated  in  the  Virginia  schools ;  at  the 
Virginia  Military  Institute,  1846-1848,  where  he  gradu- 
ated ;  at  the  University  of  Virginia,  1848-1849,  where  he 
passed  a  course  of  science ;  went  to  the  French  court  with 
his  father  in  1849 ;  entered  the  government  school  of  engi- 
neers (Ecole  des  Fonts  et  Chaussees)  in  1851,  and  gradu- 
ated first  in  his  class  in  1854,  with  the  extra  distinction  of 
brillamment.  Returning  home  in  1855,  he  was  offered 
a  government  position  as  a  civil  engineer  at  Washington, 
D.  C,  where,  under  Generals  Meigs  and  Franklin,  he  built 
the  Union  Arch  above  Georgetown  and  numerous  public 

1  See  A  History  and  Genealogy  of  the  Davenport  Family,  1086-1850,  New- 
York,  1851. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     423 

buildings.  He  married,  February  1,  1859,  Sarab  C.  Mac- 
murdo,  of  Ricbmond,  Va.  Wben  the  Civil  War  began,  Mr. 
Rives  offered  his  services  to  Virginia,  was  captain  of  engi- 
neers, C.  S.  A.,  eventually  rising  to  senior  colonel,  and  was 
for  three  years  acting  as  chief  of  the  engineer  bureau.  Car- 
ried on  his  profession  in  Richmond,  1865-1868 ;  was  an 
engineer  of  the  Chesapeake  and  Ohio  Railroad,  building  the 
road  from  Covington  to  the  White  Sulphur,  1868-1870 ; 
chief  engineer  of  the  Mobile  and  Alabama  Grand  Trunk 
Railroad  in  1870 ;  was  afterwards  with  the  Louisville  and 
Nashville  Railroad,  at  which  time  Gen.  Sherman  offered 
him  the  charge  of  the  civil  engineering  works  of  Egypt 
under  the  Khedive.  This  offer  he  declined  on  account  of 
his  family.  In  1873,  Col.  Rives  accepted  the  position  of 
chief  engineer  and  general  superintendent  of  the  Mobile 
and  Ohio  Raih'oad.  Here  he  remained  ten  years,  being 
promoted  to  vice-president  and  general  manager.  He  was 
vice-president  and  general  manager  of  the  Richmond  and 
Danville  Railroad  from  1883  to  1885  or  1886.  In  1887, 
he  was  appointed  chief  engineer  and  general  manager  of 
the  Panama  Railroad  Company,  which  position  he  holds  at 
this  writing,  in  1894. 

His  wife,  Sarah  C.  Rives,  is  a  daughter  of  the  late  James 
B.  Macmurdo,  of  Richmond,  Va.,  and  his  wife,  Fanny 
Moore. 

James  B.  Macmurdo  was  a  son  of  Charles  James  Mac- 
murdo, of  Dumfries,  Scotland  (baptized  there,  January  10, 
1771),  who  emigrated  to  Virginia  with  his  wife,  Catherine 
Ann  Cochraine. 

Fanny  Moore  was  a  daughter  of  the  Rt.  Rev.  Richard 
Channing  Moore,  for  many  years  Protestant  Episcopal 
Bishop  of  Virginia,  the  son  of  Thomas  Moore  (and  his  wife, 
Elizabeth  Channing),  the  son  of  John  Moore  (and  his  wife, 
Frances  Lambert),  born  in  Philadelphia  about  1686,  moved 
to  New  York,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  in  1749  was  a 
member  of  the  King's  Council  for  that  province.  His 
father,  John  Moore,  who  removed  from  Carolina  to  Phila- 


424  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

delphia  about  1683,  and  became  the  king's  collector  at  that 
port,  was  a  brother  to  James  Moore,  sometime  governor  of 
Carolina.     See  331. 

272.  Col.  Alfred  L.^  Rives  and  his  wife  have  issue :  — 
281.     i.  AmeHe  Louise  ^  Rives, 
ii.  Gertrude  ^  Rives, 
iii.  Sarah  Landon  "^  Rives. 

281.  AmeHe  Louise  ^  Rives,  the  authoress  of  "  A  Bro- 
ther to  Dragons,"  "  The  Quick  or  the  Dead,  "  Herod  and 
Mariamne,"  etc.,  etc.  She  married,  June  14,  1888,  John 
Armstrong  Chanler,  son  of  John  Winthrop  Chanler  and  his 
wife,  Margaret,  daughter  of  Samuel  Ward,  of  New  York, 
and  his  wife,  Emily  Astor. 

John  Winthrop  Chanler  was  a  son  of  John  Chanler,  of 
South  Carolina,  and  his  wife,  EHzabeth  Winthrop. 

273.  Amelie  Louise  °  Rives,  born  in  Paris,  France,  July 
8,  1832,  and  named  after  the  queen  and  the  king  of  the 
French.  When  she  was  returning  to  France  with  her 
father  in  1849,  the  late  John  R.  Thompson,  editor  of  the 
"  Southern  Literary  Messenger,"  addressed  to  her  some 
verses,  from  which  I  make  an  extract :  — 

"  The  high  and  great  shall  render  thee  obeisance, 

In  halls  bedecked  with  tapestries  of  gold, 
And  mansions  shall  be  brighter  for  thy  presence 

Where  swept  the  stately  Medicis  of  old. 
Still,  'mid  the  pomp  of  all  this  courtly  lustre, 

I  cannot  think  that  thou  wilt  all  forget 
The  pleasing  fantasies  that  thickly  cluster 

Around  the  walls  of  the  old  homestead  yet." 

She  married.  May  10,  1854,  Henry  Sigourney,  of  Boston, 
Mass.,  a  nephew  of  the  poetess.  While  on  their  way  to 
France,  her  husband,  herself,  and  their  three  youngest 
children  went  down  at  sea  with  the  French  steamship 
Ville  du  Havre,  November  22,  1873.  There  is  a  memorial 
tablet  to  them  in  Grace  Church,  near  "Castle  Hill,"  Albe- 
marle County,  Va. 

Henry  Sigourney,  1831-1873,  was  a  son  of  Henry  Sig- 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     425 

ourney,  Sr.  (and  his  second  wife,  Margaret  M.  Barker) ; 
son  of  Andrew  Sigourney  (and  his  wife,  Mary  Germaine, 
born  in  France),  born  in  France  1673,  died  in  Boston  1748; 
son  of  Andrew  Sigourney,  a  Huguenot,  comfortably  settled 
near  Rochelle,  in  France,  when  the  Edict  of  Nantes  was 
revoked,  October  22,  1685.  The  whole  family  hurriedly 
went  over  to  England,  were  assisted  to  proceed  to  America, 
arrived  in  Boston  in  1686,  where  Andrew  Sigourney,  the 
elder,  died  April  16,  1727,  aged  89. 

Mrs.  Amelie  Louise^  Sigourney  had  issue  :  — 
282.     i.  Henry  ^  Sigourney,  Jr. 

ii.  Helen  Germaine  ^  Sigourney,  b.  1861 ;  d.  1864. 
iii.  Alfred  G.  Rives  ^  Sigourney ;  lost  at  sea  November 

22,  1873. 
iv.  William  Cabell  Rives  ^  Sigourney  ;  lost  at  sea  No- 
vember 22,  1873. 
V.  Amelie  Louise  ^  Sigourney ;  lost  at  sea  November 
22, 1873. 
282.  Henry  ^  Sigourney,  Jr.,  born  February    27,  1855 ; 
was   a  student    at  Harvard   when    his   parents   sailed   for 
France,  in  1873 ;  married  Louise  Agnes  Power,  of  London, 
England.     They  reside  in  Boston  in  winter,  and  in  summer 
at  Nahant.     Their  children  are  :  — 
i.  Henry  Louis  ^  Sigourney,  b.  February  14,  1886. 
ii.  Alice  Louise^  Sigourney,  b.  December  14,  1891. 
iii.  David  Rives  ^  Sigourney,  b.  September  9,  1893. 


71.  Lucy  Shands^  Rives,  born  at  Warminster,  Nelson 
County,  Va.,  November  18,  1794 ;  married,  at  "  Oak- 
ridge,"  April  27,  1819,  Alexander  Brown ;  died  in 
Charlottesville,  at  the  Piedmont  Institute,  March  30,  1872, 
and  was  buried  there  by  the  side  of  her  husband  and 
daughter,  Mrs.  R.  K.  Meade. 

Her  husband,  Alexander  Brown,  was  born  near  Perth, 
Scotland,  March  27,  1796;  educated  at  Perth  Academy, 
and  afterwards  attended  a  course  at  William  and  Mary 
College,  Va. ;  came  to  Virginia  in  1811  with  his  uncle,  the 


426  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

Rev.  James  Henderson,  and  resided  with  him  in  Williams- 
burg for  several  years ;  after  attaining  his  majority  he  took 
charge  of  a  mercantile  establishment  at  Lovingston,  Nelson 
County,  Va.,  for  liis  Uncle  Henderson  and  Mr.  Parker 
Garland.  After  his  marriage  in  1819,  he  settled  at  Variety 
Mills  and  became  a  partner  in  business  with  his  father-in- 
law,  Robert  Rives,  who,  on  the  dissolution  of  the  copart- 
nership, gave  him  the  Variety  Mills  estate,  consisting  of 
a  large  farm,  stores,  flour,  corn,  and  sawmills,  an  extensive 
tannery,  etc.  He  resided  at  his  seat,  "Belmont"  (named 
for  a  seat  of  the  Fleming  family  in  Scotland,  from  w^hich 
family  Gen.  Brown  descended  through  his  mother),  on  the 
estate,  until  his  removal  to  Richmond.  From  about  1818 
to  his  death,  he  was  a  prominent  Mason.  One  of  the  lead- 
ing justices  of  Nelson,  he  was  for  many  years  the  presiding 
magistrate.  He  repeatedly  represented  Nelson  Parish,  as  lay 
delegate,  in  the  conventions  of  the  Episcopal  Church  ;  he 
was  long  colonel  of  the  28th  Virginia  Regiment,  and  in 
1840  was  elected  brigadier-general  of  this  district ;  he  was  a 
member  of  the  House  of  Delegates  from  Nelson  County, 
1835-1839  and  1841-1842,  but  political  life  was  always 
distasteful  to  him.  In  1860,  he  removed  to  Richmond,  Va., 
where  he  conducted  a  commission  business  in  copartnership 
with  J.  Bruce  McClelland  until  Mr.  McClelland' s  death  in 
1862,  and  with  the  late  Frank  Deane  from  1862  to  his  own 
death.  He  was  elected  to  the  vestry  of  old  St.  John's 
Chui'ch  in  September,  1861 ;  register,  October  4, 1861 ;  was 
for  a  time  superintendent  of  the  Sunday-school ;  warden, 
April  6,  1863 ;  died  at  his  residence  on  Church  Hill,  April 
24,  1864,  and  was  buried  in  Charlottesville  by  the  side  of 
his  daughter.  Rev.  Dr.  Norwood,  while  preaching  his  fu- 
neral sermon  in  old  St.  John's  Church,  Richmond,  said  of 
him:  "I  have  known  many  good  men,  but  a  better  man 
than  Alexander  Brown  I  never  knew." 

His  last  surviving  brother  died  only  a  few  months  ago  in 
Australia,  and  he  was  as  strong  in  the  Presbyterian  as  my 
grandfather  was  in  the  Episcopal  Church.     In  memoriam 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  427 

services  were  held  for  him  at  all  the  preaching  centres 
of  his  church  in  the  colony.  There  is  much  in  the  follow- 
ing editorial  notice  of  him  in  an  AustraHan  paper  which 
is  equally  apphcable  to  my  grandfather :  "  On  Monday, 
the  second  of  April,  1894,  there  passed  away  from  us, 
at  the  great  age  of  97,  one  of  our  best  and,  by  all  who 
had  the  privilege  of  knowing  him,  one  of  our  most  honored 
colonists,  in  the  person  of  Mr.  Andrew  Brown,  the  oldest 
magistrate  in  the  colony.  .  .  .  His  intelhgence  was  great, 
his  sagacity  unfailing,  his  will  never  faltering,  and  his 
friendship  enduring  and  tender.  He  was  surely  a  strong 
man,  but  he  was  as  gentle  as  he  was  strong.  Perthshire 
never  sent  out  a  more  worthy  son,  and,  aged  as  he  was,  we 
can  ill  spare  him,  either  for  the  sake  of  the  church  he  loved 
or  the  community  he  adorned.  Flattery  would  be  insulting 
to  the  memory  of  a  man  who  neither  gave  nor  sought  it ; 
but  Mr.  Brown  was  a  grand  Scot,  proud  of  his  nation,  as 
his  nation  might  well  be  proud  of  him." 

71.  Mrs.  Lucy  Shands^  Brown  had  issue:  — 

283.  i.  Robert  Lawrence  ^  Brown. 

284.  ii.  Margaret  ^  Brown. 

285.  iii.  Elizabeth  ^  Brown. 

283.  Robert  Lawrence^  Brown,  born  March  9,  1820; 
educated  at  home ;  at  the  University  of  Virginia,  1836- 
1839 ;  married  (first),  at  Glenmore,  April  6,  1842,  by  Rev. 
Richard  H.  Wilmer,  to  Sarah  Cabell  Callaway  (228).  She 
was  born  November  22,  1820;  educated  at  Miss  Jane  Mc- 
Kensie's  school  in  Richmond,  Va.,  boarding  with  James  E. 
Heath,  auditor  of  Virginia.  He  was  related  to  the  Riveses, 
and  his  wife  to  the  Massies,  of  Nelson.  His  sister,  Maria 
Heath,  married  the  artist,  George  Cook,  and  after  he  re- 
turned from  Europe  in  1831,  he  painted  many  portraits  in 
Nelson.  Mrs.  Sarah  C.  Brown  died  July  25,  1849,  at  the 
Red  Sulphur  Springs,  leaving  three  children  :  — 

286.  i.  Alexander  ^  Brown. 

ii.  George  Mayo  Brown,  d.  young, 
iii.  Elvira  C.  Brown,  *d.  young. 


428  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

283.  Robert  L.  Brown  was  married  (second),  September 
27, 1853,  at  "  Union  Hill,"  by  Rev.  F.  D.  Goodwin,  to  Mar- 
o-aret  Baldwin^  Cabell  (252).  She  was  born  September  27, 
1826,  at  "Union  Hill,"  and  died  August  29,  1877,  at 
"  Sunny  Side,"  in  Nelson  County,  Va.  Mr.  Brown  lived 
first  at  "  Benvenue,"  in  Nelson  County,  Va.,  and  was  a 
farmer,  planter,  and  merchant.  In  1860,  he  removed  with 
his  family  to  Lynchburg,  where  his  wife  and  himself  con- 
ducted for  some  years  "  The  Lynchburg  Female  Seminary." 
He  was  appointed  a  lieutenant  in  the  C.  S.  A.  by  the  Sec- 
retary of  War,  and  was  for  a  time  lieutenant  of  the  Provost 
Guard  at  Lynchburg.  He  returned  to  Nelson  m  1870  ; 
was  for  a  time  connected  with  the  Norwood  High  School ; 
died  June  8,  1880,  at  "  Sunny  Side,"  his  home  in  Nelson, 
and  was  buried  by  the  side  of  his  second  wife,  at  "  Union 
Hill,"  the  home  of  his  oldest  son.  His  last  wife  bore  him 
eight  children  :  — 

iv.  Mayo  Cabell '  Brown,  b.  1854 ;  d.  1858. 

287.  V.  Robert  L.*^  BroAvn,  Jr. 

288.  vi.  Mary  Cornelia  B.*^  Brown. 

289.  vii.  William  CabeU  "  Brown. 

290.  viii.  Lucy  Rives  *^  Brown. 

ix.  Joseph  Carrington  ^  Brown,  b.  May  17,  1866 ; 
educated  at  the  EpiscojDal  High  School,  near 
Alexandria,  Va.  ;  is  now  in  the  banking  busi- 
ness at  Osage  City,  Kansas  ;  unmarried. 
X.  Elizabeth  DanieP  Brown,  b.  August  18,  1870; 

unmarried. 
xi.  Mayo   Cabell  ^  Brown,  b.  February  17,  1874 ;   is 
now  at  the  Episcopal  High  School,  near  Alex- 
andria, Va. 
286.  Alexander  '^  Brown,    born    September  5,  1843,  at 
"  Glenmore,"   Nelson  County,  Va. ;  reared  by  his  grand- 
mother (58) ;  educated  by  private  tutors  at  "  Benvenue," 
1851-1856  ;  at  the   school   of   Horace  W.  Jones,  in  Char- 
lottesville, 1856-1860 ;  Lynchburg  CoUege,  1860;  C.  S.  A., 
1861-1865  ;  in  a  store  in  Washington,  D.  C,  1865-1868 ; 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  429 

in  business  in  Norwood,  Nelson  County,  Va.,  1869-1880  ; 
published  "  The  Genesis  of  the  United  States "  in  1890  ; 
bought  "  Union  Hill "  in  1873,  and  continues  to  reside 
there  ;  married  (first),  December  27,  1873,  by  Rev.  Ed- 
mund Withers,  to  Caroline  Augusta  Cabell  (259),  born  June 
4,  1854  ;  died  July  31,  1876,  s.  p. ;  married  (second),  April 
28,  1886,  by  Rev.  Byrd  Thornton  Turner,  to  Sarah 
Randolph  Cabell  (257),  born  October  2,  1848  ;  living. 

287.  Robert  L.*^  Brown,  born  January  6,  1856  ;  educated 
at  Norwood  High  School ;  is  now  in  the  banking  business 
at  Osage  City,  Kansas ;  married,  September  7,  1892,  in 
Emporia,  Kansas,  Lura  M.  Baker,  and  has  one  child  :  — 

i.  Margaret  Lura^  Brown,  born  December  4,  1893. 

288.  Mary  C.  B.*^  Brown,  born  May  22,  1857 ;  married, 
in  Charlottesville,  at  the  residence  of  her  aunt,  Maria  T. 
Rives,  November  17,  1880,  Dr.  James  Matthew  Ranson,  of 
Charlestown,  Jefferson  County,  West  Va.     Issue  :  — 

i.  Mary  Guy  '^  Ranson,  b.  August  21,  1881. 
ii.  Robert  Lawrence  ^  Ranson,  d.  infant, 
iii.  William  Rives  ^  Ranson,  d.  infant. 

289.  William  Cabell '  Brown,  born  November  22,  1861 ; 
educated  at  Norwood,  the  Episcopal  High  School,  and 
Theological  Seminary,  near  Alexandria  ;  is  now  a  missionary 
of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  at  Rio  Grande  do  Sul, 
Brazil.  He  married,  August  4,  1891,  in  Georgetown, 
D.  C,  Ida  Mason  Dorsey,  and  has  :  — 

i.  John  Dorsey  ^  Brown,  b.  in  Brazil  in  July,  1892. 
ii.  Margaret  ^  Brown,  b.  in  Brazil,  April  7,  1894. 

290.  Lucy  Rives  ^  Brown,  born  January  27,  1864 ;  mar- 
ried. May  22,  1889,  in  Osage  City,  Kansas,  Oscar  Edmund 
Boles  ;  they  now  reside  in  Denver,  Colorado,  and  have  one 
child  :  — 

i.  Margaret  CabeU '  Boles,  b.  May  4,  1890. 

284.  Margaret  ^  Brown,  born  May  22,  1821 ;  married, 
October  6,  1840,  at  Belmont,  by  Rev.  R.  K.  Meade,  to 
Rev.  Richard  H.  Wilmer,  then  of  Goochland  County,  Va. ; 


430  THE   CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

since  March  6,  1862,  the  Protestant  Episcopal  bishop  of 
Alabama ;  author  of  "  The  Recent  Past,"  New  York, 
1887.  He  is  the  son  of  the  late  Rev.  William  H.  Wilmer, 
D.  D.,  president  of  William  and  Mary  College,  1826-1827, 
by  his  second  wife,  Marion  Hannah  Cox,  of  Mount  Holly, 
N.  J.,  a  granddaughter  of  Col.  Richard  Cox,  of  the  Rev- 
olutionary army,  and  his  wife,  Mercy  Taylor  (bom  1728 ; 
died  1827,  at  Charlton,  Saratoga  County,  N.  Y.).  Her 
grandfather,  Edward  Taylor,  emigrated  late  in  the  seven- 
teenth century,  settled  in  Monmouth  County,  N.  J.,  and 
inherited  much  property  from  his  brother,  Mathew  Taylor, 
who  had  been  the  agent  for  his  relative.  Sir  Thomas  Scott, 
who  married  Caroline,  daughter  of  Sir  George  Carteret, 
Bart.,  proprietor  of  East  New  Jersey.  Sir  Thomas  Scott 
was  related  to  Sir  Samuel  Argall,  at  one  time  governor  of 
Virginia.  Rev.  William  H.  Wilmer  (born  October  29, 
1782  ;  died  July  23,  1827 ;  rector  of  St.  Paul's,  Alexan- 
dria, 1812-1826 ;  of  Bruton  Parish,  Williamsburg,  1826- 
1827 ;  took  a  prominent  part  in  reviving  the  Episcopal 
Church  in  Virginia,  a  work  for  which  his  talents,  charac- 
ter, and  genial  manners  preeminently  fitted  him)  was  the 
son  of  Simon  Wilmer,  of  Maryland,  and  his  first  wife,  Ann 
Ringgold.  The  Wilmer  ancestor  came  from  England  to 
the  eastern  shore  of  Maryland  in  the  cavalier  emigration  of 
1649-1659.  Bishop  and  Mrs.  Wilmer  had  issue  :  — 
i.  Marion  ^  Wilmer,  b.  February  10,  1851;  m.  Capt.  H. 
E.  Jones,  C.  S.  A.,  and  has  issue :  i.  Richard  Hooker 
Wilmer';  ii.  Madeline  Clitherall" ;  iii.  Harvey  Ellis'; 
iv.  George  Haxall  ^ ;  v.  William  Fitzhugh  ^ ;  vi.  Alex- 
ander Burgwyn^ ;  and  vii.  John  Stewart^  Jones. 
ii.  Alexander  Brown  ^  Wilmer,  b.  August  19,  1853;  m., 

July,  1877,  Edith  Gordon.     No  children. 
iii.  John  Stuart^  Wilmer,  b.  1860 ;  d.  1862. 
iv.  WiUiam  Holland  ^  Wilmer,  b.  August  10,  1863 ;  oculist 
and  aurist,  Washington,  D.  C. ;    m.  Miss  Re  Lewis 
Smith,  of  Philadelphia,  and  has  :  i.  Richard  Hooker ' 
Wilmer. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     431 

285.  Elizabeth  ^  Brown,  born  May  22,  1823  ;  married  at 
Belmont,  April  12,  1842,  Rev.  Richard  Kidder  Meade,  of 
Charlottesville;  died  December  27,  1862.  "Mr.  Robert 
Rives  and  his  granddaughters  (284)  Margaret  and  (285) 
Elizabeth  Brown  were  confirmed  by  Bishop  Moore,  at  the 
Episcopal  convention  in  Charlottesville,  Va.,  in  1839." 

A  marble  tablet  has  been  erected  to  her  husband  in 
Christ  Church  (Episcopal),  Charlottesville,  bearing  the  fol- 
lowing :  — 

"  In  memory  of  Rev.  Richard  Kidder  Meade,  born  in 
Clarke  County,  Va.,  Oct.  31st,  1812.  Died  in  Charlottes- 
ville, Va.,  November  17th,  1892.  Ordained  Deacon  in 
1835.  Ordained  Presbyter  in  1837.  Rector  of  this  Church 
from  1837  to  1868.  Beloved  as  Pastor,  Teacher  and  Friend. 
Faithful  in  all  relations  of  Hfe.  An  earnest,  humble,  de- 
voted Christian.     His  life  was  '  hid  with  Christ  in  God.' 

"  '  Mark  the  perfect  man  and  behold  the  upright :  for  the 
end  of  that  man  is  peace.'      Psalm  xxxvii.  37." 

During  the  last  years  of  his  life  he  was  principal  of  the 
Piedmont  Female  Institute  at  Charlottesville.  He  was  the 
second  son  of  Rt.  Rev.  William  Meade  (by  his  first  wife, 
Mary,  daughter  of  Philip  and  Sarah  (Burwell)  Nelson,  of 
Frederick  County,  Va.,  who  died  in  1817),  to  whom  a  mon- 
ument has  been  erected  in  the  cemetery  of  the  Episcopal 
Theological  Seminary  of  Virginia,  bearing  the  following 
inscription  :  — 

I.  "  Sacred  to  the  memory  of  the  Rt.  Rev.  Wm.  Meade, 
D.  D.,  third  Bishop  of  Virginia ;  born  in  Clarke  County, 
Va.,  Nov.  11,  1789 ;  died  in  the  city  of  Richmond,  March 
14,  1862." 

II.  "  Erected  as  a  memorial  of  love  and  veneration,  by 
the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  of  Virginia." 

III.  "  Prominent  in  the  revival  of  the  church  after  the 
Revolutionary  War,  he  was  the  zealous  defender  of  its  pur- 
ity, and  the  founder  and  liberal  patron  of  the  Theological 
Seminary  of  Virginia." 

IV.  "  He  lived  for  Christ,  died  in  Christ,  and  we  believe 
is  with  Christ." 


432  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

Though  suffering  from  a  deep  cold,  he  had  come  to 
Richmond  to  assist  at  the  consecration  (March  6,  1862)  of 
the  Rev.  R.  H.  Wilmer,  D.  D.,  to  the  Episcopate  of  Ala- 
bama. Dr.  Slaughter  says  :  "  The  newly-made  bishop  must 
have  been  deeply  impressed  by  the  fact  that  the  first  and 
last  official  act  of  the  presiding  bishop  of  the  South  was  the 
consecration  of  the  son  of  his  earliest  and  ablest  co-worker 
in  the  revival  of  the  church  in  Virginia,  and  that  this 
supreme  effort  of  the  aged  patriarch  hastened  his  death,  if 
it  did  not  cost  him  his  life."  ^ 

Bishop  Meade  died  at  the  hospitable  home  of  his  friend, 
Mr.  John  Lyddall  Bacon.  He  was  the  son  of  Lieut.-Col. 
Richard  Kidder  Meade,  aid  to  Gen.  Washington  in  the 
Revolution,  and  after  the  war  a  member  of  the  Society  of 
Cincinnati,  by  his  second  wife,  Mary,  daughter  of  Benja- 
min and  Elizabeth  (Fitzhugh)  Grymes,  and  granddaughter 
of  John  and  Lucy  (Ludwell)  Grymes,  and  widow  of  Wil- 
liam Randolph,  of  Chatsworth,  Va. 

Lieut.-Col.  R.  K.  Meade  (1746-1805)  was  a  son  of  Da- 
vid Meade,  born  1690  (by  his  wife,  Susanna,  daughter  of 
Sir  Richard  Everard  and  his  wife,  Susanna,  daughter  of 
Richard  Kidder,  bishop  of  Bath  and  Wells),  the  son  of 
Andrew  Meade,  the  emigrant  (by  his  wife,  Mary  Latham, 
of  Flushing,  N.  Y.,  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends), 
who  located  in  Nansemond  County,  Va.,  and  died  there 
in  1745. 

Bishop  Meade  descended  from  many  of  the  founders  of 
Virginia,  —  Barrington,  Carter,  Corbin,  Cottington,  Crom- 
well, Everard,  Fitzhugh,  Grymes,  Harrison,  Higginson, 
Landon,  Lee,  Ludlow,  Ludwell,  Townley,  Tucker,  Warner, 
etc. 

285.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  ^  Brown  Meade  had  issue  :  — - 

i.  Lucy  Brown  ^  Meade    now  living  in  Charlottes- 
ville. 
291.      ii.  Francis  Alexander  ^  Meade. 

1  See  Memoir  of  the  Life  of  the  Rt.  Rev.  William  Meade,  D.  D.,  by  Philip 
Slaughter,  D.  D.,  Cambridge  [Mass.],  1885. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     433 

iii.  Mary  Nelson  ^  Meade,  principal  of  the  Piedmont 

Female  Institute. 
iv.  Robert  Lawrence  *'  Meade,  University  of  Virginia, 
1866 ;  now  connected  with  the  Charlottesville 
Woolen  Mills. 
V.  Thomasia  Nelson  ^  Meade,  d.  infant, 
vi.  Philip  Randolph  *^  Meade,  d.  young, 
vii.  Harriet  Lee*'  Meade. 
viii.  Margaret  Wilmer  ^  Meade, 
ix.  Richard  Kidder^  Meade,  University  of  Virginia, 
1875-1877;   principal  of   the  Hickory  High 
School,    1883-1891;  d.   at   Hickory,   N.  C, 
January  22,  1894 ;  unmarried. 
X.  Alexander  Brown  ^   Meade,    University    of  Vir- 
ginia, 1876-1877 ;  m.,  November  5,  1890,  in 
the  Church  of  the  Transfiguration,  Buckhan- 
non,  W.  Va.,  Fannie  Lee  Day,  a  sister  of  Mrs. 
C.  C.  Higginbotham.       She  died  leaving  an 
infant  daughter,  i.  Fannie  Day"  Meade.     Mr. 
A.  B.  Meade  is  now  in  business  in  Roanoke,  Va. 
291.  Francis  Alexander  ^  Meade,  born  November  8, 1814, 
completed   his   education  at  the  theological  seminary  near 
Alexandria,   and    is    now    the    minister    of   the    Episcopal 
Church  at  Hinton,  W.  Va.      He  married,  July  28,  1870, 
Martha  B.  Mosby,  of  Charlottesville,  Va.,  daughter  of  Ben- 
jamin and  Martha  Anne  Peake  Mosby,  and  has  issue :  — 
i.  Richard  Kidder  '  Meade, 
ii.  Robert  Nelson  ^  Meade, 
iii.  Mattie  Leaton  ^  Meade. 


72.  Paulina  Cabell  *  Rives,  born  at  Warminster,  March 
11,  1796  ;  married,  at  Oakridge,  in  March,  1814,  Maj. 
Richard  Pollard,  U.  S.  A. ;  and  died  at  Newburg,  N.  Y., 
in  1858.  "  In  her  youth  she  was  distinguished  for  her 
matchless  beauty,  in  later  years  for  her  highly  cultured 
intellect  and  all  the  virtues  which  made  home  loved  and 
happy." 


434  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

Her  husband,  Richard  Pollard,  was  born  in  King  and 
Queen  County,  Va.,  in  1790;  graduated  at  William  and 
Mary  College,  as  Bachelor  of  Civil  Law,  in  1811 ;  ap- 
pointed captain  20th  Infantry,  U.  S.  A.,  April  14,  1812  ; 
fought  at  Craney  Island  ;  promoted  major  of  21st  Infantry, 
December  14,  1813  ;  after  marriage  resigned  from  U.  S.  A. 
in  1814  ;  moved  to  Lynchburg,  Va.,  and  engaged  in  mer- 
cantile Hfe  ;  met  with  heavy  losses  by  depreciation  of  real 
estate  ;  engaged  in  the  practice  of  the  law  ;  charge  d'af- 
faires from  the  United  States  to  the  republic  of  Chili,  1835- 
1843.  On  his  return  from  this  diplomatic  trust,  he  resided 
for  the  remainder  of  his  life  at  his  home,  "  Alta  Vista," 
Albemarle  County,  which  his  courtly  address,  distinguished 
manners,  and  genial  hospitality  rendered  elegant  and 
charming  to  all  whom  he  received  there.  He  died  in 
Washington,  D.  C,  February  19,  1851.     Issue  :  — 

292.  i.  Margaret^  Cabell  Pollard. 

ii  John  ^  Pollard,  who  enlisted  in  the  Texan  army 
and  was  killed  in  the  Texan  war  of  indepen- 
dence, in  1835,  in  his  twentieth  year. 

293.  iii.   Vii-ginia"  Pollard. 

294.  iv.  Rosalie^  Pollard. 

V.  James  Rives  ^  Pollard,  b.  1825  ;  taught  by  Henry 
Winter  Davis ;  graduate  of  the  University  of 
Virginia,  and  Philadelphia  School  of  Medicine ; 
surgeon  of  Hampton's  famous  Legion  in  the 
C.  S.  A. ;  d.  in  Richmond,  Va.,  1862  ;  un- 
married. 

295.  vi.  Lucy  Elizabeth  ^  Pollard. 

296.  vii.  Richard^  Pollard. 

297.  viii.  Edward  Alfred  ^  Pollard. 

ix.  Henry  Rives  ^  Pollard,  b.  1833 ;  University  of 
Virginia,  1850  ;  sometime  co  -  editor  of  the 
"  Richmond  Examiner,"  associated  with  his 
brother,  E.  A.  Pollard ;  subsequently  editor 
and  proprietor  of  the  "  Southern  Opinion ; " 
was  assassinated  in  Richmond,  in  November, 
1868;  unmarried. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     435 

292.  Margaret  CabeU  ^  Pollard,  born  December  16, 1814; 
married  (first),  in  July,  1835,  James  Peter  Henderson,  who 
survived  his  marriage  about  four  months.  He  was  the  eld- 
est son  (born  October  24,  1810 ;  University  of  Virginia, 
1829-1830)  of  Rev.  James  Henderson,  by  his  second  wife, 
Mrs.  Horsbrough,  formerly  Miss  Elizabeth  Peter,  of  Cabin 
Point,  near  Petersburg.  Rev.  James  Henderson  came  to 
Virginia  after  the  Revolution,  was  rector  of  Westover  Par- 
ish, 1790-1792  ;  of  York-Hampton,  1793-1797  ;  and  pro- 
fessor at  William  and  Mary  College.  His  first  wife  was 
a  daughter  of  Judge  John  Blair,  and  great-niece  of  old 
Commissary  Blair.  His  sister,  Elizabeth  Henderson,  mar- 
ried Lawrence  Brown,  of  Tibbermoor,  Perthshire,  and  on 
his  return  from  a  visit  to  Scotland,  in  1811,  he  brought 
with  him  to  Virginia  their  son,  Alexander  Brown.  (See  71.) 
Mrs.  EHzabeth  Henderson  Brown's  grandmother  Fleming 
was  a  sister  to  Elizabeth  Fleming,  who  married  Alexander 
Dinwiddle,  the  first  cousin  to  Robert  Dinwiddle,  lieutenant- 
governor  of  Virginia,  1751-1758.  These  Miss  Flemings 
were  granddaughters  of  Sir  William  Fleming,  2d,  Baronet, 
by  his  wife,  Margaret,  daughter  of  Archibald  Stewart,  of 
Blackball.  This  family  is  now  Shaw-Stewart  in  the  peer- 
age of  England. 

292.  Mrs.  Margaret  ^  C.  Henderson  had  one  child  by  her 
first  husband  :  — 
298.  i.  Pauline  Rives  ^  Henderson. 

Mrs.  M.  C.^  Henderson  married,  second,  in  1851,  Lieut. 
Henry  Haywood  Bell,  U.  S.  N.  He  was  born  in  North 
Carolina  about  1808  ;  midshipman,  August  4,  1823 ;  lieu- 
tenant, March  3,  1831  ;  commander,  August  12,  1854 ; 
captain,  1861.  Assigned  to  the  Gulf  squadron ;  took  an 
active  part  in  the  capture  of  New  Orleans  and  the  siege  of 
Vicksburg ;  commodore,  July  16, 1862 ;  in  command  of  the 
East  India  squadron,  July,  1865 ;  rear-admiral,  July  25, 
1866 ;  retired  in  1867,  but  had  not  been  relieved  when 
he  was  drowned  at  the  mouth  of  Osaka  River,  Japan,  Jan- 
uary 11,  1868,  leaving  an  only  child  :  — 


436  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

ii.  William  Haywood  ^  Bell,  b.  1855  ;  educated  at  Geneva, 
Heidelberg,  and  Harvard  ;  is  not  married. 
298.  Pauline  Rives  ^  Henderson,  born  March  26,  1836 ; 
married,  in  1854,  David  M.  Clarkson,  of  New  York,  and 
died  at  Heidelberg,  Germany,  in  1868,  leaving  issue :  — 
i.  Pauline  ^  Clarkson,  m.  Mr.  Miller,  of  New  York  State. 
ii.  Maud^  Clarkson,  m.  Homer  Ramsdell,  Jr.,  of  Newburg, 

N.  Y. 
iii.  Charlton^  Clarkson. 
iv.  David  M.^  Clarkson,  Jr.,  of  Portland,  Oregon. 

293.  Virginia  ^  Pollard,  married  Dr.  Theodore  Parker,  of 
Georgia,  and  later  of  New  York ;  both  dead,  leaving  two 
children  :  — 

i.  Mattie  ^  Parker,  an  artist,  whose  painting  in  the  Salon,  in 
Paris,  France,  and  another  in  the  Exhibition  of  Fine 
Arts,  in  New  York,  has  received  high  praise.  She  d. 
April  7,  1895,  in  Charlottesville,  Va. ;  m.  James 
Anderson,  and  had  one  child,  d.  infant. 

ii.  Pauline  ^  Parker,  m.  Mr.  Vincent,  a  Canadian  ;  lives  in 
summer  on  a  Colorado  ranch,  in  winter  in  New  York 
city.     No  issue. 

294.  Rosalie^  Pollard,  born  1824;  married,  in  1845, 
William  C.  Hunter,  of  New  York  city,  and  died  in  Paris, 
France,  in  1874.  Mr.  Hunter  was  born  in  Alexandria,  Va., 
was  for  a  long  time  in  business  in  Hong-Kong,  China,  and 
then  a  banker  in  Paris,  France.     Issue  :  — 

i.  Pauline*^  Hunter,   m.   Capt.   Henry  Atkinson,  of   the 

British  army  in  India, 
ii.  Harry  ^  Hunter,  in  the  service  of  the  Peninsular  and 

Oriental  Company, 
iii.  Virginia  ^  Hunter,  drowned  on  a  voyage  from  England 

to  France, 
iv.  WilKam  *^  Hunter,  "  custom-house  officer  in  New  York  ; 

d.  of  consumption,  leaving  a  wife  and  one  child." 
V.  Richard^   Hunter,  d.  of   hydrophobia   in    Shang-Hai, 
China;  unmarried. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     437 

vi.  Alfred  ^  Hunter,  m.  "  a  beautiful  French  widow,  and 
lives  in  Shang-Hai,  China." 

vii.  Rosalie  ^  Hunter,  m.  "  Capt.  Henry  Kirk,  of  the  British 
army,  and  of  a  distinguished  military  family  in  Eng- 
land, his  father  and  grandfather  having  been  gener- 
als, and  he  on  the  rapid  road  of  promotion  when  he 
died  in  India,  leaving  his  widow  without  issue.  She 
now  hves  at  Littlehampton,  Sussex,  England." 

295.  Lucy  Elizabeth  ^  Pollard,  born  about  1827 ;  mar- 
ried, about  1847,  Dr.  S.  E.  Habersham,  of  South  Carohna, 
and  died  in  Richmond,  Va.,  during  the  late  war.  Issue, 
two  daughters  and  one  son  :  — 

i.  "  Margaret  ^  Habersham,  m.  Dr.   Emerson,  relative  of 

the  philosopher  and  essayist." 
ii.  "  Richard  *'  Habersham,  m. ;  when  last  heard  from 

was  living  in  Portland,  Ore." 
iii.  Pauline  '^  Habersham. 

296.  Richard  ^  Pollard,  born  in  1829 ;  under  private 
tutors  to  1846 ;  at  Virginia  Mihtary  Institute  to  1849 ; 
graduated  that  year ;  in  a  banking-house  in  New  York  two 
years.  In  1851,  he  went  to  China,  and  engaged  in  the  silk 
trade  for  nine  years,  going  to  India,  Siam,  Philippine  Isles, 
AustraHa,  Chili,  Peru,  Mexico,  CaHfornia,  Sandwich  Isles, 
Egypt,  and  Abyssinia.  He  returned  to  Virginia  in  1860 ; 
married,  in  Lynchburg,  in  that  year,  Nannie,  daughter  of 
Dr.  James  Saunders  and  Anne  M.  Rives,  his  wife  ;  then  went 
to  Canada.  On  his  return  in  1861  (his  wife  died  on  July 
27  of  that  year),  Mr.  Pollard  went  into  the  C.  S.  A.  ;  after 
the  war,  went  to  Europe  ;  married,  in  1866,  in  Paris,  France, 
Mrs.  Eliza  Saunders  Dudley  (sister  to  his  first  wife) ;  after 
a  year's  travel,  he  returned  home  and  went  into  business  in 
Lynchburg,  Va.,  "  where,"  he  writes,  "  I  am  now  anchored, 
and  will  no  doubt  remain  until  I  am  called  up  higher.  I 
hope  to  enter  upon  a  glorious  immortahty." 

By  his  first  wife  he  has  an  only  child :  — 


438  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

i.  Nannie''   Pollard,   m.,   in   1889,  John   Knox  Pannill,  of 
Petersburg,  Va.,  son  of  Capt.  Thomas  Pannill,  of  that 
city. 
By  his  second  wife  he  has  also  an  only  child  :  — 
ii.  Elizabeth  Saunders  ^   Pollard,   b.    1871 ;    m.,    in   July, 
1894,  by  Rev.  T.  M.  Carson,  to  Mr.  John  S.  Glass,  of 
Lynchburg,  Va. 

297.  Edward  Alfred  ^  Pollard,  born  1831 ;  educated  at 
Hampden  Sidney,  William  and  Mary,  and  the  University  of 
Virginia ;  conspicuous  for  his  high  cultivation  and  schol- 
arly attainments ;  he  was  for  some  time  a  journalist  in 
Washington,  D.  C,  and  afterwards  removed  to  Richmond, 
Va.,  where  he  was,  during  the  Confederacy,  the  very  able 
co-editor  of  "  The  Richmond  Examiner."  He  wrote  "  Black 
Diamonds "  in  1859  ;  "  Southern  History  of  the  War," 
1862-1866  (published  in  various  forms  and  at  various  dates 
in  Richmond,  New  York,  and  London,  England) ;  "  Obser- 
vations in  the  North  :  Eight  Months  in  Prison  and  on 
Parole,"  Richmond,  Va.,  1865 ;  "  The  Lost  Cause,"  New 
York,  1866  ;  "  Lee  and  his  Lieutenants,"  New  York,  1867; 
"  The  Lost  Cause  Regained,"  New  York,  1868 ;  "  Southern 
Opinion,"  a  weekly  paper,  Richmond,  Va.,  1867-1869 ; 
"  Life  of  Jefferson  Davis,"  PhHadelphia,  1869  ;  "  The  Vir- 
ginia Tourist,"  Philadelphia,  1870.  After  an  illness  of 
more  than  two  years,  from  Bright's  disease  of  the  kidneys, 
he  died  at  the  residence  of  his  brother  Richard,  in  Lynch- 
burg, Va.,  December  12,  1872.  "  He  was  one  of  the  most 
brilhant,  eloquent,  and  forcible  writers  of  this  age;  his 
death  creates  a  void  in  literary  circles  which  it  will  be  diffi- 
cult to  fill."  (Lynchburg  News.) 

73.  Robert*  Rives,  Jr.,  born  at  Warminster,  May  17, 
1798 ;  at  William  and  Mary  College,  1816 ;  member  of  the 
Virginia  House  of  Delegates  from  Nelson  County,  1823- 
1826,  and  1827-1829 ;  married,  in  1841,  EHzabeth  PanniU, 
daughter  of  Samuel  Pannill,  Esq.,  of  Campbell  County,  Va. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  439 

(who  filled  during  his  life  many  important  public  offices  : 
was  member  of  the  legislature  from  Campbell ;  member  of 
the  Board  of  Public  Works,  and  president  of  the  Roanoke 
Navigation  Company ;  died  in  his  94th  year ;  his  daughter, 
Mrs.  Robert  Rives,  died  in  1895,  in  her  85th  year).     Mr. 
Robert  Rives,  Jr.,  before  the  war  was  one  of  the  wealthiest 
men  in  Virginia  ;  but  few  men  lost  more  by  the  war  than  he 
did.     He  died  in  1869,  leaving  an  only  child  :  — 
i.  Cornelia^  Rives,  who  m.  (first),  in  1866,  Charles  Harri- 
son, son  of  Prof.  Gessner  Harrison,  of  the  University 
of  Virginia  (by  his  wife,  Eliza  Tucker,  daughter   of 
Professor   George    Tucker  and  his  wife,   Maria  Ball 
Carter ;  see  75),  by  whom  she  had  no  issue.     She  m. 
(second)  Mr.  Wilborne,  and  has  one  child :  Elizabeth 
Rives  ^  Wilborne. 


74.  Henry*  Rives,  born  at  Warminster,  October  28, 
1799;  at  William  and  Mary  College,  1816  5  a  successful 
lawyer ;  captain  of  a  cavalry  company  attached  to  the  28th 
Regiment  Virginia  Militia,  1826-1833;  among  the  mem- 
bers of  this  company  were  W.  S.  Cabell,  G.  W.  Cabell,  Lan- 
don  C.  Rives,  and  Robert  Rives,  Jr.  He  died  at  Oakridge, 
September  16,  1833 ;  unmarried. 


75.  George  *  Rives,  born  at  Warminster,  April  24,  1802  ; 
"went  to  school  in  Staunton,  with  his  brothers,  Robert, 
Henry,  and  James ;  attended  William  and  Mary  CoUege, 
and,  I  think,  Hampden  Sidney  ;  "  married  (first),  at  "  Red- 
lands,"  Mary  Eliza  Carter ;  lived  at  Warren,  in  Albemarle 
County,  Va.,  a  few  years;  afterwards  at  "  Alta  Vista;  "  later 
at  Sherwood,  a  portion  of  the  Carter  estate,  which  fell  to 
his  wife ;  built  the  Sherwood  House ;  afterwards  went 
South  and  engaged  in  cotton-planting  on  a  plantation  near 
Edwards  Station,  Miss. ;  was  offered  the  presidency  of  the 
company  which  reclaimed  that  portion  of  Chicago  now 
occupied  by  the  Palmer  House  and  the  principal  part  of 
Chicago,  but  declined  it.     He  was  a  number  one  business 


440  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

man,  and  after  his  return  to  Virginia,  while  managing  his 
estates  in  Albemarle,  he  was  also  interested  in  the  firms  of 
A.  Y.  Stokes  &  Co.,  and  Hartsook,  Stokes  &  Rives,  of 
Richmond,  Va,  Although  never  a  candidate  himself  for 
any  office,  he  took  an  active  interest  in  politics,  and  was  for 
many  years  the  most  influential  man  on  South  Side,  Albe- 
marle County.  "  Kindness  of  heart,  simplicity  of  manners, 
love  of  truth,  were  his  distinguishing  marks." 

His  first  wife,  Mary  EHza  Rives,  died  March  23,  1839. 
[She  was  a  daughter  of  Robert  Carter,  of  "Redlands"  (by 
his  wife,  Mary  Coles,  sister  to  Edward  Coles,  the  first  gov- 
ernor of  Illinois,  and  daughter  of  John  Coles  (1745-1808) 
and  his  wife,  Rebecca  E.  Tucker  (1750-1826)),  son  of 
Edward  Carter  (by  his  wife,  Sarah  Champe),  son  of  Secre- 
tary John  Carter  (by  his  wife,  EHzabeth  Hill),  son  of  Rob- 
ert, alias  King  Carter,  of  Corotoman.]  Her  children 
were :  — 

i.  Robert^  Rives,  d.  unmarried. 

299.  ii.  George  CabelP  Rives. 

300.  iii.  James  Henry  ^  Rives. 

75.  Mr.  George"*  Rives  married  (second),  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Virginia,  March  31,  1840,  Maria  Farley  Tucker ;  she 
was  born  in  1806,  and  survived  her  husband  many  years. 
He  died  at  Sherwood,  August  13,  1874.  She  died  at  her 
residence  in  Charlottesville,  March  19,  1893.  She  was  the 
daughter  of  Prof.  George  Tucker,  who  was  born  in  the  Ber- 
mudas, 1775 ;  came  to  Virginia ;  member  of  the  Virginia 
legislature ;  member  of  the  United  States  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives from  Virginia,  1819-1825  ;  professor  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Virginia,  1825-1845  ;  author  of  numerous  books  ; 
he  died  April  10,  1861.  His  wife,  Maria  Ball  Carter,  was 
a  daughter  of  the  only  daughter  of  Gen.  George  Washing- 
ton's only  sister.  Thus  Mrs.  Maria  Farley  Rives  was  the 
great-grandniece  of  Washington,  and  before  her  death  one 
of  the  nearest  living  kindred  of  the  great  Virginian,  from 
whom  she  inherited  many  precious  memorials.  Her  father's 
life  and  her  own  covered  a  remarkable  period  in  the  history 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  441 

of  this  country.     She  had  met  among  her  father's  friends 
and  associates  some  of  the  most  distinguished  men  in  our 
history.     She  bore  her  husband  four  children  :  — 
iv.  George  Tucker  ^  Rives,  b.  in  1843 ;  at  University  of 
Virginia,  1859-1860 ;    Heutenant  in  the   C.  S.  A. ; 
taken  prisoner  at  Roanoke  Island ;  exchanged  ;  unan- 
imously elected  captain,  he  fell  while  gallantly  lead- 
ing his  men  in  a  charge  made  by  Wise's  Brigade, 
near  Petersburg,  March  29,  1865  ;  never  married. 
V.  Eleanor  Rosalie  ^  Rives,  living. 

vi.  Charles  Edward^  Rives,  University  of  Virginia,  1863- 
1867;  B.  L.,  1867  ;  a  lawyer;  d.  May  22,  1877,  in 
his  29th  year ;  never  married, 
vii.  Laurence  Alexander^  Rives,  University  of  Virginia, 
1868-1869;  d.  at  Little  Rock,  Ark.,  January  6, 
1873,  in  his  22d  year. 

299.  George  Cabell  ^  Rives,  born  1831 ;  at  University  of 
Virginia,  1848  ;  lived  in  the  South  for  many  years,  at  Gal- 
veston, Texas,  and  elsewhere ;  is  now  a  resident  of  Char- 
lottesville. He  married  (first),  June  14,  1855,  Isabella 
Lewis  Merritt,  daughter  of  W.  H.  E.  Merritt  and  his  wife, 
Ehzabeth  W.  Goode.  She  died  December  6,  1857,  leav- 
ing :  — 

i.  Mary  Eliza  ^  Rives. 

ii.  Isabel  Lewis  ^  Rives.     She  married  Mr.  Joel  Wolfe,  who 

was  in  the  C.  S.  A. ;  a  merchant  of  Galveston,  Texas. 

He  d.  July  13,  1894,  leaving :    i.  Salhe  Rives  ^ ;  ii. 

George  Rives  '  ;  iii.  Hettie  May  ^  Wolfe. 
George    C.^  Rives   married  (second),  in  October,  1860, 
Miss  Sarah  Bryan,  of  Texas.     No  issue. 

300.  James  Henry  ^  Rives,  born  at  "Redlands,"  Albe- 
marle County,  Va.,  1835;  University  of  Virginia,  1850, 
1852-1853 ;  merchant,  Richmond,  Va.  (Stokes  &  Rives) ; 
married,  November  1,  1860,  Eliza  Gordon  Scott ;  captain, 
C.  S.  A.,  1861-1865 ;  collector  of  internal  revenue.  Lynch- 


442  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

burg,  Va.,  1871-1884;  candidate  for  Congress  on  the 
Republican  ticket,  1882 ;  chairman  of  the  State  Republican 
Central  Committee,  1881-1884  ;  now  a  farmer  in  Albemarle, 
County,  Va. 

His  wife  is  a  daughter  of  the  late  Robert  Eden  Scott 
(and  his  wife,  Anne  Morson),  of  Fauquier  County,  Va.,  son 
of  Judge  John  Scott,  son  of  Rev.  John  Scott,  son  of  Rev. 
James  Scott  (Dettingen  Parish,  Prince  William  County  j 
came  to  this  country  in  1739),  son  of  Rev.  John  Scott,  of 
Morayshire,  Scotland.  (See  Hayden's  "  Virginia  Genealo- 
gies.")    They  have  issue  :  — 

i.  Robert  Eden  Scott  *^  Rives. 

ii.  Lizzie  Gordon  Scott  "^  Rives,  d.  young, 
iii.  George  Tucker^  Rives, 
iv.  Anne  Morson  ^  Rives. 

V.  Mary  Carter*^  Rives, 
vi.  Rosalie^  Rives, 
vii.  James  Henry  ^  Rives,  d.  infant. 


76.  Alexander  *  Rives,  born  at  Oakridge,  June  17,  1806  ; 
educated  at  Hampden  Sidney  College,  1821-1825,  and 
graduated  at  the  University  of  Virginia,  1828 ;  elected  a 
professor  in  Washington  College;  accepted,  but  changed 
his  mind ;  married  (first),  April  4,  1829,  Isabella  Bachem 
Wydown,  daughter  of  Rev.  Samuel  Wydown,  an  Episcopal 
minister  and  a  native  of  England. 

"  In  early  youth  Mr.  Rives  was  distinguished  for  his 
capacity  and  rare  gifts,  which  ripened  with  advancing  years 
and  bore  abundant  fruit.  He  was  an  able  and  distino-uished 
lawyer,  an  oft-honored  representative  of  Albemarle  County 
in  the  Legislature  and  Senate  of  the  State,  in  which  bodies 
he  was  always  an  influential  member.  Those  who  served 
with  him  well  remember  his  flashing  eloquence  and  brilliant 
oratory." 

During  Jackson's  administration,  and  for  some  years  after, 
Albemarle  was  a  doubtful  county.  Gilmer  and  Southall 
were  the  Whig  candidates,  Randolph  and  Rives  the  Demo- 


JUDGE   ALEXANDER   RIVES 


THE  FOUNDER'S   GREAT-GRANDCHILDREX  443 

cratic,  and  each  party  was  successful  almost  alternately,  an 
election  for  the  House  of  Delegates  occurring  every  year. 
Mr.  Rives,  like  his  brother  William,  was  a  Democrat  until 
1840,  then  a  Conservative,  and  from  1844  to  1861  a  Whig. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  state  convention  of  1850-1851 ; 
member  of  the  House  of  Delegates  in  1852-1853,  etc.,  and 
of  the  state  senate  in  1859-1861.  He  was  a  strong  Union 
man,  and  was  bitterly  opposed  to  secession. 

His  first  wife  died  at  "  Carlton,"  March  24,  1861.  He 
married  (second),  May  29,  1862,  Sallie  Kearsley  Watson, 
daughter  of  Dr.  George  Watson,  of  Richmond,  Va.  He 
was  the  rector  of  the  University  of  Virginia,  and  a  member 
of  the  Board  of  Visitors,  1865-1866 ;  appointed  Judge  of 
the  Supreme  Court  of  Appeals  of  Virginia,  December  19, 
1856.  After  the  war,  he  acted  for  a  time  with  the  Conserv- 
ative party,  and  then  with  the  Republicans ;  was  the  can- 
didate of  the  latter  party  in  1870  for  representative  of  this 
district  in  the  United  States  Congress,  but  was  defeated  by 
Hon.  R.  T.  W.  Duke. 

Judge  Rives  was  appointed,  by  Pres.  U.  S.  Grant,  Judge 
of  the  United  States  District  Court  for  the  Western  Dis- 
trict of  Virginia,  and  continued  in  this  office,  I  think,  until 
his  death. 

After  his  first  marriage  he  resided  in  Charlottesville  until 
1833 ;  then  at  his  seat,  "  Carlton,"  on  "  Monticello,"  until 
1873 ;  and  then  at  his  home,  "  Eastbourne  Terrace," 
Charlottesville,  where  he  died,  September  17,  1885,  in  his 
80th  year.  His  obituary  in  the  "  Southern  Churchman," 
October  8,  1885,  says :  — 

"  He  became  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church  thirty- 
five  years  ago,  and  was  a  consistent  Christian,  carrying  into 
his  daily  life  the  principles  he  professed.  He  never  spoke 
in  harsh  or  cruel  terms  of  any  one.  He  was  cast  in  too 
noble  a  mould  to  harbor  ill-will  or  resentment.  He  was 
kind,  courteous,  and  forbearing  to  all.  A  beautiful  example 
to  those  who  shared  his  intimate  acquaintance." 

He  left  no  children  by  his  second  wife ;  by  his  first  wife 
he  was  the  father  of  ten  :  — 


444  THE  cabi:lls  and  their  kin 

i.  Eliza  Wydown  ^  Rives,  b.  January  31,  1830 ; 
m.,  July  25,  1849,  Prof.  M.  Scheie  De  Vere 
(his  first  wife) ;  d.  July  20,  1851,  leaving : 
Minna  Eliza '^  De  Vere,  b.  July  17,  1851,  a 
lovely  girl.  She  d.  June  19,  1864. 
ii.  Margaret  Cabell  ^  Rives,  b.  September  5,  1831 ; 

d.  September  26,  1867  ;  unmarried, 
iii.  Lucy  Brown  ^  Rives,  b.  January  6,  1834;  m., 
March  21,  1860,  Prof.  M.  Scheie  DeVere, 
LL.  D.  (his  second  wdfe),  Avho  was  appointed 
professor  of  modern  languages  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Virginia,  September  23,  1844,  which 
position  he  still  fills.  In  September,  1894,  he 
completed  a  half  century  of  devoted  service 
as  a  professor  in  the  University.  His  wife  is 
still  living.     No  issue. 

301.  iv.  Isabella^  Rives. 

V.  Alexander  ^  Rives,  Jr.,  b.  December  24,  1837 ;  a 
doctor  of  medicine  of  the  Universities  of  Vir- 
ginia and  New  York ;  an  assistant  surgeon, 
C.  S.  A. ;  physician ;  d.  May  1,  1876,  in  Mis- 
sissippi ;  unmarried. 

vi.  Robert^  Rives,  b.  November  25,  1839;  M.  A. 
and  B.  L.  of  the  University  of  Virginia,  and 
Utriusque  Legis  Doctor  of  the  University  of 
Heidelberg,  Germany ;  d.  May  19,  1867,  in 
Bolivar  County,  Miss. ;  unmarried. 

vii.  Charles  Meriwether^  Rives,  b.  September  18, 
1841 ;  B.  L.  of  the  University  of  Virginia ; 
first  Ueutenant,  Wyatt's  Battery,  C.  S.  A. ;  he 
was  killed  at  Cold  Harbor,  June  3,  1864.  "  A 
brilliant  young  man.  Ever  at  his  post,  with 
silent  zeal  and  unflinching  courage." 

302.  viii.  Emma  Estelle  ^  Rives. 

303.  ix.  Adela  Bertha  ^  Rives. 

X.  Francis  William^  Rives,  b.  March  4,  1848;  Uni- 
versity of  Virginia,  1868;  in  business  in 
Charlottesville. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     445 

301.  Isabella^  Rives,  born  January  12,  1836;  married, 
November  25,  1856,  Thomas  Gordon  Coleman,  Jr.,  of  Hal- 
ifax County,  Va.  He  was  born  in  1833  ;  at  the  University 
of  Virginia,  1852-1855 ;  a  lawyer ;  first  lieutenant  Com- 
pany K,  3d  Virginia  Infantry,  C.  S.  A. ;  he  fell  at  second 
Manassas,  August  30,  1862,  while  acting  as  captain  of  his 
company,  leaving  two  children  :  — 

i.  Priscilla  Sims  *^  Coleman,  b.  October  31,  1857 ;  m.  Wil- 
liam Henry  Seamon,  professor  at  the  School  of  Mines, 
University  of  Missouri,  at  Rollo,  Mo.  Issue :  i.  Wil- 
liam Henry  ^ ;  ii.  Alexander  Rives  ^ ;  and  iii.  Isabel 
Gordon^  Seamon. 
ii.  Alexander  Rives  ^  Coleman,  b.  June  1,  1860 ;  d.  Novem- 
ber 18,  1876. 

302.  Emma  Estelle  ^  Rives,  born  November  3,  1843 ; 
married  (first).  May  25,  1867,  Richard  Hall,  of  Montreal, 
Canada.     He  died  December  26,  1873,  leaving  :  — 

i.  Bertha  Wydown '  Hall,  b.  August  8,  1868. 
ii.  Alexander  Rives  '^  Hall,  b.    November  3,  1869 ;  advo- 
cate, Montreal,  Canada, 
iii.  Winifred^  Hall,  b.  in  March,  1872 ;  d.  in  1874. 

302.  Mrs.  Emma^  Rives  Hall,  married  (second),  June 
18,  1878,  Rev.  John  Wilson,  of  Montreal.  She  died  at 
Georgetown,  Colorado,  May  15,  1881,  without  issue  by  her 
second  husband. 

303.  Adela  Bertha  ^  Rives,  born  March  20,  1846  ;  mar- 
ried, at  Carlton,  December  8, 1869,  Thomas  Keith  Skinker, 
of  St.  Louis,  Mo.  He  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  June  9, 
1845  ;  University  of  Virginia,  1866 ;  was  for  several  years 
the  reporter  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Missouri,  and  is  now 
one  of  the  leading  lawyers  of  St.  Louis.  His  father, 
Thomas  Skinker,  was  a  native  of  Fauquier  County,  Va., 
son  of  WiHiam  Skinker,  of  Spring  Farm,  and  great-grand- 
son of  Samuel  Skinker,  of  Orange,  who  bought  Spring  Farm 
from   Lord   Fairfax  in  1745  and  Huntley  in  1725.     Mr. 


446  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

Skinker's  mother,  Jane  Neilson,  was  a  native  of  Ohio ;  but 
her  father,  William  Neilson,  a  Scotch-Irishman  by  birth,  was 
long  a  citizen  of  Virginia,  his  wife  being  one  of  the  ancient 
Wormley  family  of  Virginia. 

303.  Mrs.  Adela  Bertha  ^  Skinker  has  issue  :  — 
i.  Charles  Rives *^  Skinker,  b.  at  St.  Louis,  December  18, 

1870. 
ii.  Isabella   Neilson^   Skinner,  b.  at    St.   Louis,  June  23, 

1873. 
iii.  Thomas^  Skinker,  b.  October  8,  1874;  d.  August  1, 

1875. 
iv.  Bertha  Rives  ^  Skinker,  b.  at  St.  Louis,  April  15,  1876. 
V.  Thomas  Keith  ^  Skinker,  b.  1879;  d.  1879. 
vi.  Alexander  Rives  ^  Skinker,  b.  October  13,  1883. 
vii.  Jane  Neilson  ^  Skinker,  b.  April  9,  1885. 


III.   COL.   JOSEPH  2  CABELL   THE  ELDER'S  BRANCH. 
17.   ELIZABETH  3   CABELL   MEGGINSON'S    DESCENDANTS. 

77.  Joseph  Cabell*  Megginson,  born  January  28,  1771, 
at  "  Clover  Plains  ;  "  educated  for  the  law  ;  represented  his 
county  in  the  House  of  Delegates,  and  was  a  most  useful 
citizen  ;  married,  in  1792,  Sarah  Boiling,  daughter  of  Archi- 
bald Boiling  (see  18),  by  his  first  wife,  Sarah  Cary,  daughter 
of  Col.  Archibald  Cary,  of  Ampt  Hill,  and  his  -vvife,  Mary 
Randolph,  daughter  of  Richard  Randolph  and  Jane  Boiling 
(see  18). 

Col.  Archibald  Cary  (1722-1787),  Speaker  of  the  House 
of  Burgesses,  etc.,  etc.,  Avas  son  of  Henry  Cary,  who  died 
in  1748;  son  of  Henry  Cary,  who  died  m  1720;  the 
second  son  of  Miles  Cary,  the  emigrant,  by  his  wife,  Anne, 
daughter  of  Thomas  Taylor. 

Miles  Cary,  the  emigrant,  born  in  Bristol,  England ; 
colonel,  member  of  council,  etc.,  in  Virginia ;  killed  June 
10, 1667  ;  was  a  son  of  John  Cary  and  his  wife,  AHce  Hob- 
son,  daughter  of  Henry  Hobson,  mayor  of  Bristol.     Robert 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  447 

Cary,  seventh  Lord  Hunsdon,  a  lineal  descendant  of  Henry 
Gary,  Lord  Hunsdon,  personally  acknowledged  the  Carys  of 
Bristol  as  kinsmen  ;  but  the  emigrant  was  not  heir  apparent 
to  the  barony  at  the  time  of  his  death  in  1667. 

77.  Joseph  C.^  Megginson  died  April  11,  1811.  Issue 
eight :  — 

304.  i.  WilKam  Cabell  ^  Megginson. 

305.  ii.  Elizabeth  Megginson. 

306.  iii.  Archibald  BoUing  Megginson. 

307.  iv.  Joseph  Cabell  Megginson. 

308.  V.  Samuel  B.  Megginson. 

309.  VL  Jane  Randolph  Meggmson. 

310.  vii.  John  Randolph  Megginson. 

311.  viii.  Benjamin  Cabell  Megginson. 

304.  William.  C.^  Megginson,  born  April  17,  1794  (the 
Megginson  brothers  were  all  landowners  and  farmers) ;  mar- 
ried, November  15,  1821,  Amanda  M.  (sister  of  Hon. 
Thomas  S.  Bocock),  daughter  of  John  T.  Bocock,  Esq.,  of 
Buckingham  (afterwards  Appomattox)  County,  Va.  He 
died  November  2,  1847.  Issue,  three  sons  and  eight 
daughters :  — 

i.  Joseph  6  Megginson,  b.  1822  ;  d.  1840. 
ii.  John*^  Megginson,  b.    1824;  m.,    1867,    Miss  Sarah 
Smith,    of   Tennessee,    and    had :    i.  Wilham  ^ ;    ii. 
Thomas^;  and  iii.  Henry  Megginson.^ 
iii.  Mary*^    Megginson,   b.   1826;  m.,   1850,   Capt.  Jeter 
Davidson,  of  Buckingham,  and  had  issue  :  i.  Caro- 
Hne  ^ ;   ii.  Charles  " ;    iii.  Maria  ^ ;    iv.  Francis  ^ ;  v. 
Antonia  ^ ;  and  vi.  Virginia  ^  Davidson. 
iv.  Judith  T.'  Megginson,  b.  1828. 

V.  Sarah  B.*^  Megginson,  b.  1831 ;  m.,  1857,  Jesse  Carter, 
Esq.,  of  Appomattox,  and  died  in  1863,  leaving : 
i.  William  ^ ;  ii.  Charles " ;  and  iii.  Albion  ^  Carter. 
vi.  Martha*^  Megginson,  b.  1834  ;  m.,  1866,  Mr.  Matthew 
Farrar,  of  Fluvanna  County,  who  died  in  1868,  leav- 
ing one  son  :  William^  Farrar,  b.  1867. 
vii.  Jane  ^  Megginson,  twin  sister  to  Martha ;  m.,  in  1867, 


448  THE   CABELLS  AND   THEIR   KIN 

Mr.    Peleg   Bosworth,    of  Amherst,    and    had    one 
dauofhter  :  Amanda  E."  Bosworth. 
viii.  Maria    L.*^   Megginson,    b.    1837 ;  m.,  in   1867,  Mr. 
Thomas    Farrar,   of  Fhivanna.     He   died  in   1868, 
leavino;  one  son  :  Thomas  '  Farrar. 

ix.  William^   Megginson,    b.    1839;  m.,    in    1871,  Miss 
Martha  McCraw,  of  Buckingham. 

X.  Pocahontas  '^  Megginson,  b.  1812  ;  m.,  first,  in  1865, 
Mr.  George  Christian,  of  Appomattox,  who  died 
July  22,  1866.  She  m.,  second,  in  1872,  Mr.  Ben- 
jamin Farrar,  of  Nashville,  Tenn.     No  living  issue. 

xi.  Frances  D.*'  Megginson,  b.  1844;  m.,  in  1865,  Dr. 
William  N.  Horsley,  of   Nelson. 

305.  Elizabeth  C  Megginson,  b.  1796 ;  m.,  1820,  Mr. 
William  Berkeley,  of  Charlotte  County,  Va.,  and  had  is- 
sue :  — 

i.  Joseph  °  Berkeley,  who  m.  Almira  Virginia,  daughter  of 
his  uncle,  Joseph  CabeU  Megginson. 

306.  Archibald  Boiling  ^  Megginson,  born  March  9, 
1798 ;  m.  (first),  October  21,  1824,  Ann  R.,  daughter  of 
Joseph  White,  Esq.,  of  Amherst.  She  was  born  August  1, 
1807  ;  died  October  8,  1829.     Issue  :  — 

312.     i.  Jane  Courtney  ^  Megginson. 
ii.  Mary  A.^  Megginson. 
iii.  Robert  H.*^  Megginson. 
306.  Archibald    B.^    Megginson,   m.   (second),  May  22, 
1833,  Elizabeth  H.,   daughter  of  John   Roberts,  Esq.,   of 
Bent  Creek,  Appomattox  County,  Va.     She  was  born  Feb- 
ruary 4,  1807.     Issue  :  — 
iv.  John  G.^  Megginson,  b.  April  17,  1834. 
V.  Fanny   E.®    Megginson,    b.    February    26,    1836 ;    d. 

December  30,  1868. 
vi.  Sarah  H.^  Megginson,  b.  October  10,  1838. 
vii.  Benjamin  ^  Megginson,  b.  July  14,  1840 ;    d.  Septem- 
ber 4,  1849. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  449 

viii.  Olivia  A.''  Megginson,  b.  December  17,  1841. 
ix.  Lewis  A.*^  Megginson,  b.  December  22,  1843. 
X.  Joseph  C.^  Megginson,  b.  June  16,  1846. 
xi.  Archibald  B.^  Megginson,  b.  April  21,  1849. 

312.  Jane  Courtney^  Megginson,  born  November  30, 
1825  ;  m..  May  6,  1851,  James  Douglas  Campbell,  third 
son  of  Robert  Smith  Campbell,  Esq.  He  was  born  March 
8,  1825;  A.  B.,  Washington  College,  1847;  teacher,  Am- 
herst County,  Va.  ;  teacher  and  editor,  Greensboro',  N.  C. ; 
died  October,  1865,  leaving  :  — 

i.  Mary^    Campbell;  m.,    March   31,    1871,  H.   Garland 
Brown,   Esq.,  of  Roanoke,  Va.     Issue   eleven  chil- 
dren.^ 
ii.  Archibald  ^  Campbell,  b.  1853 ;  merchant  of  Wilming- 
ton, N.  C. ;  m. ;  had  one  child  in  1888. 

iii.  Clara  ^  Campbell. 

iv.  Alice  ^  Campbell,  m.  her  cousin,  Walton  B.  Megginson 
(317). 

307.  Joseph  CabelP  Megginson,  born  February  11, 
1800 ;  married,  November  15,  1826,  Almira,  daughter  of 
Capt.  Joseph  Montgomery,  of  "  Rockfish,"  Nelson  County. 
She  was  born  September  14,  1804 ;  died  April  13,  1831, 
leaving  issue :  — 
313.    i.  Sarah  J.  E.  ^  Megginson. 

ii.  Almira  Virginia   Megginson,^  b.  June  15,  1829  ; 
m.  her  cousin,  Joseph  Berkeley. 

307.  Joseph  ^  Cabell  Megginson  was  a  lawyer,  an  editor, 
and  a  man  of  talents.  He  conducted  "  The  Danville  Re- 
porter "  for  some  years  with  marked  ability,  and  at  the 
same  time  practiced  his  profession  in  the  courts  of  Pittsyl- 
vania, Henry,  and  Patrick,  at  which  he  held  high  rank. 
He  emigrated  to  Texas  in  1835  or  1836,  where  he  con- 
tinued to  practice  the  law,  and  was  elected  a  brigadier- 
general  and  a  judge.     He  died  March  28,  1858. 

313.  Sarah  J.  E.''  Megginson,  born  October  9,  1827  ; 
married,  September  13,  1845,  Hamilton  L.  Blaine,  Esq., 
and  had  issue  :  — 


450  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR   KIN 

i.  Catherine  YJ  Blaine,  d.  young, 
ii.  Mary  F.  LJ  Blaine,  b.  June  11,  1853. 
ill.  Jessie^  Blaine, 
iv.  Berkeley^  Blaine. 

V.  Henry  ^  Blaine, 
vi.  Charles^  Blaine, 
vii.  Roberta^  Blaine. 

308.  Samuel  B.^  Megginson,  born  January  14,  1802 ; 
married,  June  10,  1828,  Mary  A.,  daughter  of  Christopher 
Johnston,  Esq.,  of  Appomattox.  She  was  born  March  19, 
1809.     He  died  prior  to  1872,  leaving  issue  :  — 

i.  Joseph  Cabell  ^  Megginson,   b.  August  14,  1829  ;   m. 

(first),    July    1,    1855,    Miss    Eliza    S.    Alvis,    and 

(second)  Miss  Sally  Sjiencer. 
ii.  Sarah   J.*^    Megginson,    b.    November    10,    1845  ;    m. 

Thomas  Davidson,  Esq. 
iii.  Samuel  F.^  Meggmson,  b.  December  11, 1850. 

309.  Jane  Randolph  ^  Megginson,  born  in  1804  ;  married 
Dr.  Nathaniel  R.  Powell,  of  Nelson,  and  died  prior  to 
1835,  leavmg  two  daughters,  who  died  young  and  un- 
married. 

310.  John  R.^  Megginson,  b.  May  1,  1806 ;  married, 
January  8,  1835,  Mary  R.,  daughter  of  William  J.  Dunn, 
Esq.,  of  Appomattox  County ;  died  in  July,  1875,  leaving 
issue. 

311.  Benjamin  Cabell  ^  Megginson,  born  July  31,  1809  ; 
died  April  20,  1887.  He  was  a  physician  and  farmer ;  his 
farm,  "  Gladstone,"  is  now  owned  by  the  Chesapeake  and 
Ohio  R.  R.  Co.  He  married  (first),  May  25,  1837,  Fanny 
Blain  (born  1819;  died  March  11, 1879),  daughter  of  Capt. 
Alexander  Blain,  of  Albemarle  County,  Va. ;  and  had 
issue :  — 

314.      i.  Pocahontas  B.^  Megginson. 

ii.  Joseph  A.^  Megginson,  b.  1844;  d.  1863. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     451 

315.  iii.  Sarah  L.^  Meggiuson. 

iv.  Ella  O'C'  Megginson,  b.  1847 ;  d.  1863. 
V.  Benjamin  H.^  Megginson,  b.  1850 ;  d.  1852. 

316.  vi.  Robert  Craig  "^  Megginson. 

317.  vii.  Walton  B.''  Megginson. 

318.  viii.  Mary  F.*^  Megginson. 

ix.  Elizabeth  J.^  Megginson,  b.  March  19,  1870 ;  d. 
November  23,  1877. 
311.  Dr.  B.  C.  Megginson  married  (second),  August  18, 
1880,  Maria  C.  Hening,  of  Powhatan,  and  had  by  her :  — 
X.  Eliza  Park  ^  Megginson,  b.  June  12,  1881. 
xi.  Benjamin  Cabell  *^  Megginson,  b.  September  25,  1882. 

314.  Pocahontas  B.^  Megginson,  born  September  7, 
1842  ;  died  September  12,  1864 ;  married,  July  10,  1861, 
Dr.  William  H.  Hening,  of  Powhatan  County,  Va.,  and  left 
one  son  :  — 

i.  Benjamin  C.^  Hening,  born  September  15,  1863 ;    mar- 
ried, June  1,  1892,  Miss  Peachy  Fleet  Bagby. 

315.  Sarah  L.^  Megginson,  born  December  19,  1845  ; 
died  August  7, 1870 ;  married,  April  5,  1867,  Benjamin  J. 
Farrar,  of  Nashville,  Tenn.,  formerly  of  Fluvanna  County, 
Va.,  and  left  one  daughter :  — 

i.  Laura  ^  Farrar,  born  June  14, 1869 ;  married,  November 
9,  1892,  Rev.  Mayo  Cabell  Martin,  son  of  255. 

316.  Robert  Craig  ^  Megginson,  born  February  7, 1852  ; 
married,  September  29,  1879,  Annie  L.  Moon.     Issue  :  — 

i.  Carrie  L.^  Megginson,  b.  August  1,  1880. 

ii.  Pocahontas  M.^  Megginson,  b.  October  5,  1882. 
iii.  Mamie  Lyle'^  Megginson,  b.  September  14,  1884. 
iv.  James  Craig  '^  Megginson,  b.  1886 ;  d.  1890. 

v.  Laura  Barita^  Megginson,  b.  November  10,  1890. 

317.  Walton  B.^  Megginson,  born  January  15,  1855  ; 
married,  October  5,  1883,  Alice  Campbell,  daughter  of 
312.     Issue :  — 

i.  Mattie  Blain^  Megginson,  b.  May  29,  1889. 
ii.  Clara  Virginia  '^  Megginson,  b.  March  31,  1893. 

318.  Mary  F.^  Megginson,   born   May  23,  1859;  died 


452  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

April  1,  1888 ;  married,  May  10,  1880,  WilUam  D.  Moon. 
Issue,  three :  — 
i.  Fannie  Edna^  Moon,  b.  June  9,  1881. 
ii.  Carrie  Lottie  ^  Moon,  b.  April  5,  1884. 
iii.  William  Richard  ^  Moon,  b.  May,  1887. 


18.    JOSEPH'^  CABELL,  JR.  S  DESCENDANTS. 

78.  Sophonisba  E.*  Cabell,  born  at  "The  Glebe,"  in 
Albemarle  County,  Va.,  March  4,  1784 ;  married,  at 
"  Cabell's  Dale,"  Fayette  County,  Ky.,  September  3,  1809, 
Robert  Harrison  Grayson,  a  lawyer,  son  of  Senator  William 
Grayson,  of  Virginia.  He  was  born  in  Maryland,  March 
12,  1788 ;  emigrated  to  Greenup  County,  Ky.,  and  died  in 
Jefferson  County,  Ky.  Senator  Grayson  married  Eleanor 
Small  wood,  sister  of  Gen.  William  Smallwood,  governor  of 
Maryland.  He  was  the  son  of  Benjamin  Grayson  (who 
came  to  Virginia,  probably  from  England,  early  in  the 
eighteenth  century)  by  his  wife,  Mrs.  Susanna  Linton, 
daughter  of  Capt.  Andrew  Monroe,  whose  ancestor  emi- 
grated from  Scotland,  President  James  Monroe  and  Senator 
Grayson  being  his  grandsons.  Mrs.  Sophonisba  E.  Grayson 
died  November  26,  1857,  having  had  issue :  — 

319.  i.  William  Powhatan  Boiling^  Grayson. 

ii.  Joseph  CabelP  Grayson,  b.  1812  5  d.  1824. 

320.  iii.  Hebe  Carter  ^  Grayson. 

iv.  Robert  Boiling  ^  Grayson,  b.  1815;  d.  1816. 
V.  Mary  Ann  Elizabeth^  Grayson.  I      Twins; 
vi.  Robert  H.^  Grayson.  J  d.  infants, 

vii.  Benjamin  Blair,*"  d.  infant. 

viii.  Pocahontas  Rebecca  Boiling^  Grayson  ;  d.  infant, 
ix.  Sarah  Boiling^  Grayson,  d.  infant. 

321.  X.  Eleanor  Smallwood  ^  Grayson. 

319.  William  P.  B.^  Grayson,  born  at  Little  Sandy  Salt 
Works,  Greenup  County,  Ky.,  September  9,  1810.  "  Dur- 
ing the  late  war,  he  raised  a  regiment  and  brought  them 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  453 

out  of  Kentucky,  and  did  all  he  could  for  the  South  ;  was 
captured,  put  in  the  penitentiary,  and  treated  with  great 
cruelty,  but  remained  true  to  the  C.  S.  A."     He  married, 
June  15,  1837,  Susan,  daughter  of  Capt.  Henry  Dixon,  of 
Henderson  County,  Ky.,  and  had  issue  :  — 
i.  Robert  Harrison  ^  Grayson,  d.  infant, 
ii.  Mary  Eleanor  ^  Grayson,  b.   September  24,  1839 ;  m. 
Henry  Dixon  ;  their  daughter  :  — 
i.  Sarah  ^  Dixon,  m.  Edward  Irvine, 
iii.  Joseph  Cabell'  Grayson,  b.  1842;  d.  1845. 
iv.  Susan    Bailie  ^   Grayson,   b.  December    25,  1843 ;  m. 

William  Norman,  and  had  :  i.  Phelps  ^  Norman. 
V.  Sophonisba '     Grayson,    b.    November    9,    1845 ;    m. 
Young  Watson,  and   had:    i.   Jennie^,  m.  Howell 
Watson ;    ii.  Mary  ^,  m.    Milton    Grymes ;    and   iii. 
Bertha^  Watso7i,  m.  J.  Stanley  Dennis, 
vi.  Hebe  Carter*^  Grayson,  b.  May  27,  1848. 
vii.  Elizabeth  Frances '  Grayson,  d.  infant, 
viii.  Elizabeth  Cabell*^  Grayson,  died  infant. 
ix.  William  Powhatan  ®  Grayson,  died  infant. 
X.  Henry  Dixon '  Grayson,  d.  infant, 
xi.  Roger   Dixon  ^  Grayson,   b.   January  28,  1858 ;    m. 
Mamie  Grymes. 

320.  Hebe  Carter  ^  Grayson,  born  January  8,  1814 ; 
married  (first),  January  8,  1833,  William  Preston  Smith,  of 
Henderson,  Ky.,  who,  by  legislative  enactment,  took  the 
name  of  Preston.  He  was  the  son  of  John  Smith  by  his 
wife,  Chenoe  Hart,  daughter  of  Captain  Nathaniel  Hart,  a 
pioneer  of  Kentucky.  "  She  was  the  first  white  child  born 
in  Kentucky,  and  her  name,  Chenoe,  is  the  Indian  name 
for  Kentucky."  John  Smith  was  the  son  of  Francis  Smith, 
Esq.,  of  Virginia,  who  removed  to  Kentucky,  by  his  wife, 
Ann  Preston  (born  in  Ireland ;  died  in  Kentucky,  1813, 
aged  74),  daughter  of  John  and  Ehzabeth  Patton  Preston, 
the  emigrants.  Although  they  emigrated  from  Ireland, 
the  Prestons   were    Enghsh.     Capt.  Nathaniel   Hart,  Sr., 


454  THE   CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

was  born  in  1734,  in  Hanover  County,  Va.  He  was  the 
business  man  of  Henderson  &  Co.,  in  their  purchase  of 
Kentucky  from  the  Cherokee  Indians.  Boone  was  an 
ao-ent.  Hart  was  killed  by  the  Indians  at  Boonesboro,  in 
Auo-ust,  1782.  Richard  Henderson  was  born  in  Hanover, 
Va.,  in  1735,  and,  like  Hart,  removed  to  North  Carolina  in 
his  youth.  William  Preston  died  February  12,  1850,  leav- 
ing an  only  child  :  — 

i.  Sophonisba  G.®  Preston  (born  October  27,  1833),  who 
married  Carter  H.  Harrison,  Esq.  (427). 

Mrs.  Hebe  Carter  ^  Preston  married  (second),  October  31, 
1852,  her  cousin,  WiUiam  Peartree  Smith,  of  Henderson 
County,  Ky. ;  no  issue.  He  descended  from  Obadiah 
Smith  and  his  wife,  Mary  Burks. 

321.  Eleanor    Small  wood  ^    Grayson,    born    in  Jefferson 
County,    Ky.,    March    1,    1827 ;    married,    November   28, 
1844,    Mr.    Joseph    Adams,    a    native    of    Boston,    Mass., 
a    merchant    of    Hendersontown,    Ky.       Their    children 
are  :  — 
i.  Eleanor'  Adams,  b.  1845;  d.  1850. 
ii.  Joseph  Grayson '  Adams,  b.  September  21,  1849. 
iii.  William  Smallwood^  Adams,  b.  July  17,  1851. 
iv.  Ellie '  Adams,  died  infant. 
V.  John  Cabell  ^  Adams,  b.  August  12,  1854. 
vi.  Robert    Grayson '  Adams,  b.  February  22,   1856 ;  m. 

Martha  Elam,  and  has  :  i.  Baxter  Harrison  ;  and  ii. 

Robert  William  ^  Adams. 


79.  Sarah  Boiling*  Cabell,  born  at  "  Repton,"  May  29, 
1786 ;  married,  November  14,  1805,  Elisha  Meredith,  who 
was  born  in  Hanover  County,  October  13,  1783 ;  he  was  a 
son  of  John  Meredith  (and  his  wife,  Ann  Taylor),  the  son 
of  Capt.  Elisha  Meredith  (and  his  wife,  a  daughter  of 
James  Cocke),  the  son  of  Samuel  Meredith,  of  St.  Paul's 
Parish,  Hanover,  whose  widow  was  the  second  wife  of  Dr. 
Wmiam  CabeU. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  455 

Mrs.  Sarah  B.  €.■*  Meredith  removed  with  her  husband  to 
Kentucky,  and  then  to  Alabama.     Issue  nine  :  — 

322.  i.  Pocahontas  Rebecca  Bollino^^  Meredith. 
ii.  Edward  Moselj  ^  Meredith  ;  d.  infant. 

323.  iii.  John  Taylor^  Meredith. 

324.  iv.  Joseph  CabelP  Meredith. 

325.  V.  Francis  Dandridge^  Meredith. 

326.  vi.  Benjamin  CabelP  Meredith. 

327.  vii.  Mary  Ann  ^  Meredith. 

328.  viii.  Thomas  Jefferson  ^  Meredith. 

329.  ix.  Virofinia^  Meredith. 


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322.  Pocahontas  R.  B.^  Meredith,  born  September  18, 
1806 ;  died  May  6,  1838  ;  married,  December  18,  1827, 
William  O'Neal  Perkins  (born  February  28,  1791).  [His 
sister,  Mary  Harden  Perkins,  was  the  wife  of  his  cousin, 
Nicholas  Perkins,  who  captured  Aaron  Burr,  and  carried 
him  to  Washington  in  an  open  gig.  Their  father,  Thomas 
Harden  Perkins  (married  Mary  M.  O'Neal),  was  the  son 
of  Nicholas  Perkins,  who  lived  on  Tuckahoe  Creek,  in 
Henrico  County,  Va.,  by  his  wife,  Bethinia  Harden,  or 
Harding,  the  daughter  of  Thomas  Harding  (who  died  in 
1731)  and  his  wife,  Mary,  daughter  of  William  Giles,  of 
Varina,  Henrico  (1640-1694),  and  his  wife,  Bethaniah 
Knowles,  sole  daughter  and  heiress  of  Captain  John 
Knowles.]     Issue :  — 

330.  i.  WilHam  Harding  ®  Perkins. 

331.  ii.  Elizabeth  ^  Perkins. 

332.  iii.  Sarah  Cabell®  Perkins. 

330.  William  Harding  ^  Perkins,  born  in  1829 ;  died 
about  1870 ;  married,  about  1848,  Louisa  Hewit,  of  Ala- 
bama.    They  moved  to  Mississippi  about  1868.     Issue :  — 

i.  Louisa^  Perkins. 

ii.  Wm.  O'NeaF  Perkins, 
iii.  Elizabeth"  Perkins, 
iv.  Thomas  H.^  Perkins. 

v.  Sarah  Cabell^  Perkins. 


456  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

331.  Elizabeth  ^  Perkins,  born  in  1831 ;  died  in  August, 
1872  ;  married,  in  October,  1850,  James  Jackson,  a  soldier 
in  C.  S.  A.  He  was  severely  wounded  at  the  first  battle  of 
Manassas ;  upon  his  recovery,  was  elected  colonel  of  the 
27tli  Alabama ;  lost  an  arm  at  Kenesaw  Mountain,  and  was 
acting  brigadier-general  at  Johnston's  surrender ;  after- 
wards state  senator ;  was  probate  judge  of  Lauderdale 
County  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was  a  brother  to 
Ellen  Jackson  (who  married  A.  D.  Hunt ;  see  414),  and  to 
George  M.  Jackson,  who  married  Sarah  Cabell  Perkins 
(332).  Their  father,  James  Jackson  (whose  family  had 
been  imphcated  in  the  Irish  rebellion),  emigrated  from 
Ireland  early  in  the  century,  and  settled  near  Nashville, 
Tenn.  Upon  the  removal  of  the  Indians  from  Alabama, 
he  removed  to  near  Florence,  where  he  purchased  an 
estate,  which  he  called  "  The  Forks,"  where  he  resided 
until  his  death  in  1840.  He  was  president  of  the  Cypress 
Land  Company,  which  laid  out  the  town  of  Florence ;  was 
interested  with  General  Andrew  Jackson  in  real  estate 
enterprises ;  represented  his  county  in  the  state  legislature 
and  state  senate ;  an  importer  and  breeder  of  fine  horses ; 
was  talked  of  as  the  Whig  candidate  for  governor  of 
Alabama,  but  was  debarred  by  his  foreign  birth.  He  mar- 
ried Mrs.  Samuel  McCulloch,  whose  maiden  name  was 
Sarah  Moore,  granddaughter  of  George  Moore,  a  signer  of 
the  famous  New  Hanover  Association  (by  his  wife,  Mary 
Ashe,  sister  of  Gen.  John  and  Governor  Samuel  Ashe,  of 
North  Carolina),  son  of  Roger  Moore,  for  eighteen  years 
member  of  the  governor's  council,  son  of  James  Moore,  Sr., 
by  his  wife,  Anne  Yeamans.  James  Moore,  Sr.,  was  royal 
governor  of  Carolina,  1700-1703,  and  brother  to  John 
Moore,  who  went  to  Philadelphia  (see  272).  The  ancestry 
of  these  Moores  is  differently  stated,  and  I  do  not  know 
which  statement  is  correct.  According  to  one  account, 
they  descend  from  Henry  Moore,  third  Viscount  Drogheda, 
by  his  viiie  AHce,  daughter  of  William,  Lord  Spencer,  of 
Wormleighton,  by  Lady  Penelope  Wriothesley,  daughter  of 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  457 

Henry,  third  earl  of  Southampton  and  thu'd  treasurer  of  the 
Virgiuia  Company  of  London ;  one  of  our  leading  found- 
ers.^ 

Anne  Yeamans,  the  wife  of  Gov.  James  Moore,  Sr.,  was 
daughter  of  Sir  John  Yeamans,  knight  and  baronet,  who 
was  also  royal  governor  of  the  provinces  of  North  and 
South  Carolina. 

The  children  of  Elizabeth  ^  Perkins  Jackson  were  :  — 
i.  William^   Jackson,  of    Bessemer,  Ala.,  b.   1851;    m. 

Sarah  J.  Weakly.     She  d.  s.  p. 
ii.  Jane  ^  Jackson,  d.  infant. 
iii.  Mary  Steele^  Jackson,  b.  1854;  d.  1861. 
iv.  Sarah  ^  Jackson,  b.  1856 ;  d.  1861. 
V.  Eleanor  Kirkman  ^  Jackson,  b.  1858  ;  m.  William  H. 

Phillips,  of  Alabama, 
vi.  James  Kirkman  ^  Jackson,  b.  1861 ;   secretary  of  state 

of  Alabama,  Montgomery,  Ala. 
vii.  Charles  Pollard^  Jackson,  b.  1864,  clerk  to  the  rail- 
road commission, 
viii.  Robert  Andrews^  Jackson,  of  EvansviUe,  Ind. 
ix.  EUzabeth^  Jackson,  d.  infant. 

332.  Sarah  CabeU^  Perkins,  born  May  23, 1834;  died  in 
March,  1868;  married,  in  1853,  George  Moore  Jackson. 
[He  served  as  a  private  in  C.  S.  A. ;  was  a  planter,  with  no 
political  ambitions  ;  a  younger  brother  of  James  Jackson, 
who  married  Elizabeth  Perkins  (331)].  Issue  :  — 
i.  Alexander^    Jackson,    b.    July   4,    1854,    of    Colbert 

County,  Ala. 
ii.  Elizabeth  ^  Jackson,  b.  1856 ;  d.  1861. 
iii.  Jane  '^  Jackson,  b.  April  10,  1858,  m.  George  W.  Polk, 
of  Tennessee,  now  of  San  Antonio,  Texas.     Issue : 
i.  Kate  (d.  infant) ;  ii.  George  W.,  Jr. ;  and  iii.  Jane 
Folk. 
iv.  Martha  ^  Jackson,  b.  1860;  d.  1862. 
V.  Kate  Breckinridge^  Jackson,  b.  November  24,  1863. 

1  See  The  Genesis  of  the  United  States,  pp.  1061, 1062. 


458  THE  CABELLS  AXD  THEIR  KIN 

vi.  Rufiis    Polk^   Jackson,   b.   August   24,   1861;  a  civil 

engineer,  Texas, 
vii.  Richard  Harrison^  Jackson,  b.  May  10,  1866;  ensign 
U.  S.  N. ;  graduated  from  Annapolis ;  given  his 
present  rank  for  gallant  conduct  in  the  storm  at 
Samoa,  being  on  board  the  Trenton  when  that  vessel 
"was  wrecked.  His  conduct  on  that  occasion  was 
commended  in  the  highest  terms,  both  by  his  admiral 
and  the  Secretary  of  the  Navy,  in  their  respective 
reports. 

323.  John  Taylor^  Meredith,  born  May  8,  1811;  a 
planter  and  farmer ;  married  Elizabeth  H.  Payne,  of  Fau- 
quier County,  Va.  He  returned  to  Vii-ginia  about  1850, 
and  resided  on  his  estate,  "  Greenville,"  in  Prince  William 
County,  until  his  death  in  1893.  [His  wife  was  a  daughter 
of  Daniel  Payne  (by  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Hooe  Winter), 
who  resided  near  Warrenton,  the  son  of  Captain  William 
Payne  (1755-1837),  who  commanded  "  The  Falmouth 
Blues"  in  the  Revolution.]     Issue,  sur\aving:  — 

i.  Richard  Winter  ^  Meredith,  b.  in  Sumter  County, 
Ala.,  August  18,  1839 ;  a  member  of  the  "  Black 
Horse"  Cavalry,  C.  S.  A.;  a  physician  of  Prince 
WiUiam  County;  m.  Mary  Williams,  of  Missis- 
sippi, and  has :  i.  Samuel  W.^  Meredith. 
ii.  Elizabeth  Daniel  ^  Meredith,  m.  R.  H.  Hooe,  and 
has  :  i.  John  M.^ ;  ii.  Robert  ^ ;  and  iii.  Daniel 
Hooe. 
333.  iii.  Elisha  E.^  Meredith. 

iv.  Alice  P.^  Meredith,  b.  in  Virginia. 
v.  Thomas  S.°  Meredith,  born  in  Vii-ginia. 
vi.  J.  Cabell  ^    Meredith,  born    in  Virginia ;    M.  D., 
Washington,  D.  C. 
333.  Ehsha  E.^  Meredith,  born  in  Sumter  County,  Ala., 
December  26,  1848;  educated  at  Hampden  Sidney  College, 
Virginia  ;  admitted  to  the  bar,  1869  ;  prosecuting  attorney 
for  Prince  William  County  seventeen  years ;    in  the  state 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     459 

senate  of  Virginia,  1883-1887 ;  presidential  elector,  1888 ; 
member  U.  S.  House  of  Representatives  since  1891.     He 
married  Sylvia  Contee,  of  Maryland,  daughter  of  Capt.  John 
Contee,  U.  S.  N.,  and  has  two  sons :  — 
i.  Edward  Contee  ^  Meredith, 
ii.  WiUiam  Payne  ^  Meredith. 

324.  Joseph  Cabell  ^  Meredith,  born  in  Fayette  County, 
Ky.,  August  29,  1813;  clerk  of  the  court  of  Sumter 
County,  Ala. ;  died  August  14,  1851,  in  Greensboro,  Ala., 
at  the  residence  of  his  brother-in-law,  S.  W.  Chadwick. 

325.  Francis  Dandridge  ^  Meredith,  born  in  Fayette 
County,  Ky.,  December  15,  1815  ;  married  Frances 
Broadnax,  of  Wilhamson  County,  Tenn.,  daughter  of  Col. 
Thomas  Broadnax,  formerly  of  Virginia.  "  He  is  living 
near  Meridian,  or  Marion,  in  Lauderdale  County,  Miss. 
They  have  three  daughters  and  two  sons  :  "  — 

i.  Sarah  Jane  ^   Meredith,    b.  in    Sumter    County,    Ala., 

March  16,  1841. 
ii.  Mary  Ann  ^  Meredith,  b.  in  Sumter  County,  Ala.,  July 

22,  1845. 
iii.  Ehsha^  Meredith,  b.  in  Sumter  County,  Ala.,  February 

2,  1848. 
iv.  Frances  B.^  Meredith,  born  in  Neshoba  County,  Miss., 

February  4,  1855. 
V.  George   Dandridge  ^  Meredith,  b.  in  Neshoba  County, 

Miss.,  December  8,  1858. 

326.  Benjamin  Cabell^  Meredith,  born  in  Fayette 
County,  Ky.,  February  8,  1819  ;  physician  ;  married  (fii-st) 
Margaret  J.  Broadnax  (sister  to  Frances,  who  married  his 
brother),  of  Frankhn,  Tenn.  She  died  in  Simiter  County, 
Ala.,  September  23,  1843,  lea\ang  Margaret  J.  Meredith, 
born  January  14,  1843.  "Dr.  Benjamin  C.  Meredith  re- 
moved to  Chappell  Hill,  Washington  County,  Texas,  where 
he  married  Mrs.  Cheek,  of  that  place.     She  died.     He  mar- 


460  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

ried  a  thii-d  time,  about  1869,  and  died  in  1873,  leaving  at 
least  one  son,  Ben,  who  was  in  Mexico  when  last  heard 
from." 

327.  Mary  Ann  ^  Meredith,  born  in  Fayette  County,  Ky., 
October  27,  1821 ;  died  in  Greensboro,  Ala.,  February  26, 
1868 ;  married,  June  13,  1839,  Shelby  W.  Chadwick,  a 
merchant  of  Greensboro,  Ala.,  who  was  born  in  Greenup 
County,  Ky.,  April  26,  1815,  and  died  in  Greensboro,  Ala., 
April  5,  1854,  leaving  four  sons :  — 

i.  William  Henry  ^  Chadwick,  b.  in  Sumter   County, 
Ala.,  October    10,  1840 ;    in    C.  S.  A. ;    d.  in 
Brenham,  Texas,  of  yellow  fever,  in  1867. 
334.  ii.  Shelby  Wayne '  Chadwick. 

iii.  Robert  Alvin*^  Chadwick,  b.  in  Greensboro,  Ala., 
1844  ;  in  C.  S.  A. ;  m.,  in  1868,  Nannie  Wright, 
of  Washington  County,  Texas.     They  now  reside 
in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  and  have  :  i.  Cabell  Wright  ^ ; 
and  ii.  Mary  ^  Chadwick. 
iv.  Edward  Shelby  ^  Chadwick,  b.  in  1846  in  Greens- 
boro, Ala. ;  served  in  C.  S.  A. ;  is  unmarried. 
334.  Shelby  Wayne '  Chadwick,  born  April  26,  1842,  in 
Greensboro,    Ala. ;  in    C.   S.  A.  ;  married,    December   20, 
1865,  Jane  Comack,  of  Hale  County,  Ala. ;   both  Hving  in 
Greensboro,  Ala.,  and  have  :  — 
i.  Mary  E.'^   Chadwick,   b.  October    20,    1866 ;  m.,    No- 
vember 7,  1888,  Rev.  J.  D.  Elhs,  of  Marengo  County, 
Ala.,  a  member  of  the  North  Alabama  Conference  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  South,  now  stationed 
at  Eastlake,  Ala.     They  have  :   i.  Clara  V.^ ;  ii.  Hat- 
tie^;  iii.  Martha  M.^;  and  iv.  George  Stowers^  Ellis. 
ii.  Mattie  Erwin  '  Chadwick,  b.  in  Greensboro,  Ala.,  March 
6,    1868;  m.,    April   11,    1888,  J.    W.  Rodney,  of 
Roanoke,  Randolph  County,  Ala. 
iii.  John  Shelby^   Chadwick,  b.  in  Greensboro,  Ala.,  May 
15,    1871 ;   educated    at   the    Southern     University, 
Greensboro,  Ala.,  and  at  the  Vanderbilt  University, 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  461 

Nashville,  Tenn. ;  joined  the  Alabama  Conference  of 

the   Methodist   Episcopal    Church    in    1892,    and  is 

stationed  near  Pensacola,  Florida, 
iv.  Clara  ^  Chadwick,  b.  March  9,  1874 ;  single. 
V.  David  ^  Chadwick,  b.  1877  ;  d.  1877. 
vi.  Robert  Edward  ^  Chadwick,  b.  May  7,  1879,  a  student 

at  Southern  University, 
vii.  Francis  Peterson  ^  Chadwick,  b.  August  13,  1884. 

328.  Thomas  Jefferson  ^  Meredith,  born  in  Fayette 
County,  Ky.,  February  25,  1824 ;  a  physician ;  married 
(first),  in  Neshoba  County,  Miss.,  December  22,  1853,  to 
Mary  E.  Brown,  and  moved  to  Washington  County,  Texas, 
in  1859,  at  which  time  they  had  two  daughters  and  one 
son  :  — 

i.  Sara  Annie  ^  Meredith,  b.  December  6,  1854. 

ii.  Mary  Ida  ^  Meredith,  b.  September  24,  1856. 
iii.  Edward  Cabell  ^  Meredith,  b.  January  3,  1859. 

"Belton,  Texas,  September  6,  1894,  .  .  .  Dr.  Thomas 
J.  Meredith  died  in  1889.  He  left  four  daughters  by  his 
first  wife,  one  of  whom  has  since  died.  Of  the  surviving, 
Mrs.*^  Ware,  a  widow,  lives  in  Fort  Worth,  Texas ;  another 
is  married,  and  hves  in  Florida ;  the  other.  Miss  Belle  ^,  is 
single,  and  hves,  I  beheve,  in  Corsicana,  Texas.  Dr.  Mer- 
edith's second  wife,  Mrs.  Bettie  Meredith,  lives  at  Purdon, 
Navarro  County.  Her  son,  Stuart^,  and  her  single  daughter, 
Miss  Minnie  ^,  live  with  her,  and  she  has  a  married  daughter^ 
living  near  her." 

329.  Virginia  ^  Meredith,  born  in  Franklin  (now  Colbert) 
County,  Ala.,  April  25,  1826  ;  married  Dr.  Daniel  Eddins, 
in  Greensboro,  Ala.,  January  4, 1853  ;  removed  to  Chappell 
Hill,  Washington  County,  Texas,  in  1855.  He  died  in 
Brenham,  Texas,  of  yellow  fever,  in  1867.  She  died  in 
Independence,  Texas,  in  1877,  leaving  two  sons  and  four 
daughters :  — 

i.  Ehsha  M.^  Eddins,  a  lawyer  of  Marlin,  Tex. 


462  THE   CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

ii.  Daniel  S.^  Edclins,  in  banking  business  at  Marlin,  Tex. 
iii.  "  Mrs.    Mary  ^   Brown,  the  oldest  daughter,  is  now  a 

widow ;   lives  in  Grimes  County,  Texas." 
iv.  "  Mrs.  EUa  ^  Scales,  the  next  daughter,  died  a  few  years 

ago.     She    left    a    husband,    three     daughters :   i. 

Clayton  ;  ii.  EfBe  ;  and  iii.  MoUie  Scales,  and  a  son  : 

iv.  Eddins  Scales." 
V.  Elizabeth  '^  Eddins  m.,  in  1875,  Rev.  Reddin   Andrews, 

of  the  Baptist  Church,  Bastrop,  Texas. 
vi.  Mrs.  Sallie  ^  Morse,  the  fourth  daughter,  lives  in  Waco, 

Texas. 


80.  Joseph  Megginson  ■*  Cabell,  born  1788 ;  was  at 
Wasliington  College,  1804-1806;  graduated  at  William 
and  Mary ;  read  law  under  Gov.  William  H.  Cabell  and 
the  Hon.  William  Wirt.  He  was  eminently  distinguished 
at  every  school  he  attended ;  was  a  man  of  undoubted 
genius  and  talent.  For  some  reason  he  changed  his  name 
to  Charles  Joseph  Cabell.  He  emigrated  to  New  Orleans, 
and  in  a  few  months  took  rank  by  the  side  of  P.  R. 
Grymes,  Hohnes,  and  Livingston.  So  said  Gov.  Thomas 
B.  Robertson.  Mr.  Wirt  pronounced  him  the  greatest  man 
of  his  ag-e  in  Virginia.  He  was  three  times  called  to  the 
field  (so-called)  of  honor  :  first,  with  Gen.  Benjamin  Jones, 
then  of  Amelia,  afterwards  of  Alabama ;  second,  with  Dr. 
Upshaw,  at  New  Orleans,  but  who  went  from  King  and 
Queen  County,  Va. ;  and  thirdly,  with  a  Mr.  Nicholson,  of 
New  Orleans,  a  nephew  of  lawyer  Abner  L.  Duncan,  who 
instigated  the  duel.  He  died  November  23,  1810,  in 
New  Orleans,  of  yellow  fever  ;  unmarried. 


81.  Edward  Blair'  Cabell,  born  at  "  Repton,"  May  29, 
1791;  married,  at  Charlottesville,  Va.,  April  10,  1812, 
Harriet  Forbes  Monroe ;  settled  in  Barren  County,  Ky. ; 
removed  to  Missouri  in  1818,  and  settled  in  what  is  now 
Chariton  County,  200  miles  above  St.  Louis,  at  a  place  60 
miles  west    of  Daniel   Boone,  the  great   pioneer,   and  im- 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  463 

mediately  upon  the  borders  of  the  Indian  tribes,  with  whom 
he  established  the  most  friendly  relations.  They  settled 
their  small  causes  among  themselves,  but  their  hard  ones 
they  brought  to  him.  When  in  Vii-ginia,  in  1842,  he  said 
that  they  had  been  coming  to  him  to  judge  for  them  for 
many  years.  "  But  I  never  would  act  except  at  the  re- 
quest, and  in  the  presence,  of  the  head  chief  and  his 
councillors,  who  would  stand  by  and  witness  the  proceed- 
ings with  the  utmost  gravity.  Without  the  shadow  of 
legal  authority,  I  would  take  my  seat  under  the  shade  of 
some  large  tree,  surrounded  by  50  to  100  Indians.  The 
matter  of  dispute  was  brought  to  the  sjDot,  —  whether  an 
ox,  horse,  bows,  arrows,  or  guns,  etc.  The  j)laintifp  came 
forward,  or  some  one  for  him,  and  set  forth  his  claims, 
etc. ;  then  his  witnesses  were  called  and  examined,  first  by 
him,  then  by  the  defendant.  Next  the  defendant  came 
forward,  made  his  statement,  and  gave  his  reasons  for  hold- 
ing the  property ;  then  his  witnesses  were  called  and 
examined,  first  by  him,  then  by  the  plaintiff."  He  said 
they  all  spoke  with  such  brevity,  and  so  directly  to  the 
point,  that  he  rarely  ever  found  any  difficulty  in  giving 
judgment.  He  always  wrote  his  decision  down  on  paper 
and  read  it  aloud  three  times  in  the  hearing  of  all  present, 
and  then  handed  it  to  the  head  chief,  who  would  hold  it 
up  and  repeat  its  contents  word  for  word,  although  he  did 
not  know  a  letter  of  the  alphabet ;  then  he  would  an- 
nounce it  in  the  Indian  language,  and  have  the  property 
delivered  to  the  ri«:ht  owner.  Then  there  would  be  si^ns 
of  satisfaction:  "  Ough !  ough!  good  man!  good  judge! 
good  heart!  good  head!  He  wise:  he  talk  to  Great 
Spirit  !  " 

He  said  he  had  thus  given  judgment  in  from  fifteen 
to  twenty  cases  in  one  day  in  the  midst  of  large  bodies  of 
Indians,  whose  deportment  was  always  grave  and  decorous, 
when  there  was  not  another  white  man  nearer  than  four 
miles.  The  Indians,  I  suppose,  knew  him  to  be  descended 
from  King  Powhatan. 


464  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

He  was  elected  by  the  people  clerk  of  Chariton  County, 
and  soon  after  of  the  cu'cuit  court. 

The  following  letter,  written  by  Major  Charles  Yancey, 
of  "  Traveller's  Rest,"  Buckingham  County,  Va.,  to  "  His 
Excellency  President  Tyler,"  will  explain  itself:  "Feb- 
ruary 18,  1842.  Dear  Sir,  —  Permit  me  to  introduce  to 
your  notice  Mr.  Edward  B.  Cabell,  of  Missouri,  who,  I 
presume,  is  now  in  the  city  of  Washington,  having  left 
here  a  few  days  since.  Mr.  Cabell  seeks  the  oftice  of 
Register  of  the  Land  Office,  which  is  contemplated  to  be 
established  in  what  is  called  the  Platte  country  in  Missouri. 
I  think  I  can  say  he  is  a  man  of  integrity,  which  is 
hazarding  much  to  say  in  these  days  of  great  moral  de- 
pravity. You  know  the  Cabell  family,  and,  I  presume,  the 
Boiling ;  his  mother  was  sister  to  Powhatan  and  Senacous, 
and  he  married  a  daughter  of  Joseph  J.  Monroe.  You 
now  have  his  heraldry  ;  and  I  rate  people  very  much  by 
their  stock,  as  I  do  the  blooded  horse.  He  is  honest, 
moral,  sober,  and  of  business  habits.  If  you  cannot  do 
better,  take  him." 

Mr.  Cabell  and  his  wife  were  for  many  years  members  of 
the  Methodist  Church.  He  was  everywhere  known,  in 
Kentucky,  in  Missouri,  and  in  his  native  land,  by  the  name 
of  "  Uncle  Ned."  He  was  the  friend  of  the  friendless,  and 
his  house  was  the  well-known  home  of  the  stranger.  His 
wife  and  himself  took  charge  of  several  children  whose 
parents  died  in  extreme  want,  raised  them  from  infancy 
as  tenderly  as  they  did  their  own,  and  finally  provided  them 
with  comfortable  homes.  He  died  at  Keytesville,  Mo., 
August  29,  1850,  universally  lamented. 

His  wife,  Harriet  Forbes  Monroe,  born  April  10,  1794, 
was  a  niece  of  President  James  Monroe,  and  a  daughter 
of  Col.  Joseph  Jones  Monroe  by  his  wife,  Miss  Carr,  of 
Albemarle,  of  English  ancestry.  Col.  Josepli  J.  Monroe  was 
the  son  of  Spence  Monroe  (and  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Jones, 
of  Welsh  ancestry),  the  son  of  Capt.  Andrew  Monroe,  whose 
ancestor   emigrated    from    Scotland,  of   a   Highland  clan. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  465 

Mrs.  Harriet  F.  Cabell  died  at  Keytesville,  Mo.,  March  22, 
1857.     Issue: —   • 

335.  i.  Charles  Joseph^  Cabell. 

336.  ii.  Emily  Monroe'  Cabell. 

337.  iii.  Jane  Browder'  Cabell. 

iv.  John  Linneus '  Cabell,  b.  November  7,  1825 ;  d. 
January  29,  1846. 

338.  V.  Pocahontas  Rebecca'  Cabell. 

339.  vi.  Robert  Harvey '  CabeU. 

335.  Charles  Joseph'  Cabell,  born  in   Fayette  County, 
Ky.,  April  26,  1813 ;  educated  at  Augusta  College,  Ky. ; 
Hcensed  to  practice  law ;  but  became  a  surveyor  of  public 
lands  in  the  new  States,  especially  in  Louisiana,  where  his 
services  were   of  great  value  to  the  general   government. 
He  married,  September  15,  1837,  Susan  Allin,  of  Harrods- 
burg,   Ky. ;  died  October  10,   1882,  in   Chariton   County, 
Mo.,  and  was  buried  at  Brunswick,  Mo.     His  widow  is  still 
living.     Her  ancestors  are  the  Alhns  and  Thompsons,  of 
Mercer    County,    Ky.,    both   prominent   in    the    business, 
political,  and  social  history  of  that  State.     Her  father.  Col. 
William  Allin,  a  native  of  Virginia,  for  many  years  clerk 
of  Mercer  County,  Ky.,  was  a  son  of  Thomas  Allin,  who 
served  on  the  staff  of  Gen.  Greene  the  latter  part  of  the 
Revolution ;  appointed  first  clerk  of  Mercer  County,  Ky., 
August,  1786,  "  which   office  he  held  when  Mrs.  Robards 
was  divorced  from  her  husband  to  marry  Andrew  Jackson." 
335.  Charles  J.  and  Susan  Allin  Cabell  had  issue :  — 
i.  Mary    Allin  ^    CabeU,  b.   May  3,   1839;  m.,  in  1858, 
John  S.  Kikendall,  of  Kentucky ;  living  at  Bruns- 
wick, Mo.     No  issue. 
ii.  Pocahontas  ^  Cabell,  b.    at   Keytesville,  Mo.,  June  2, 
1842 ;  m.,  September  6,  1860,  Charles  Hammond,  a 
native   of  Virginia ;  a  lawyer  of  Brunswick,  Mo.  ; 
member  of   the  Constitutional  Convention  of  Mis- 
souri, 1875,  of  the  General  Assembly  of  Missouri, 
1877.     Issue:  i.  Talbott";  ii.  Charles  CabelF ;  iii. 


466  THE   CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

Mary   CabelF;    iv.    Pocahontas^;    and   v.  Robert 

Boyd  ^  Hammond. 
iii.  Harriet  M.«  Cabell,  b.  1845 ;  d.  1847. 
iv.  Kobert  Boyd*^  Cabell,  b.  at  Harrodsburg,  Ky.,  February 

22,    1847  ;  a   physician,    Carroll  County,  Mo. ;  m. 

(first)  Sarah  Spencer,  who  died,  leaving  no  surviving 

issue ;    m.    (second)    Emma    Thomas,   and   has :  i. 

Sarah   Spencer";  ii.  Pocahontas';  iii.  Mary  Allin^ ; 

iv.  Susan  Burton  ^ ;  and  v.  William  AUin  ^  Cabell. 
V.  Edward  Blair  ^  Cabell,  b.  1852  ;  d.  1869. 
vi.  WiUiam  Allin  ^  Cabell,  b.  June  14,  1855  ;  farmer,  Glas- 
gow,   Mo.  ;  m.,    September    25,    1883,  Mrs.  Claire 

McDaniel.     No  issue. 
vii.  James  Monroe  ^  Cabell,  b.  July  3,  1858  ;  of  Leadville, 

Colo.;  a  mining  expert;  m.,  December  7,  1883,  Mrs. 

Clara  Dengler,  and  has :  i.  Susan  Burton  ^  Cabell. 

336.  Emily  Monroe^  Cabell,  born  in  Bardstown,  Ky., 
April  12, 1818;  married,  in  Chariton  County,  Mo.,  May  19, 
1835,  Peter  T.  Abell,  a  lawyer,  and  a  native  of  Kentucky, 
born  at  Bardstown,  July  29,  1813.  They  were  living  in 
Atchison,  Kansas,  in  1872.  Both  are  now  dead.  Issue 
eleven  :  — 

i.  Susan  Emily  ^  Abell,  b.  November  1,  1836 ;  m.,  Sep- 
tember 28,  1853,  Charles  Elijah  Woolfork  (b.  May 
19,  1828),  a  merchant  from  Kentucky.     Issue  two 
sons  ;  both  d.  young, 
ii.  Harriet  M.*^  Abell,  d.  infant, 
iii.  Elizabeth  J.^  Abell,  d.  infant. 

iv.  Edward  Cabell*'  Abell,  b.  December  4,  1841;  now 
living  in  Linn  County,  Mo. ;  m.  Fannie  Flood,  and 
has  :  i.  John  ^ ;  and  ii.  Addison  S.^  Abell. 
V.  Addison  Slye '  Abell,  b.  April  21,  1844  ;  d.  in  C.  S.  A. 
vi.  Pocahontas  R.®  Abell,  b.  August  4,  1846 ;  m.  (first) 
Dr.  James  White.  Issue:  i.  Emily"  White;  m. 
(second),  December  19,  1879,  Rev.  Joseph  King,  of 
Missouri,  a   minister    of   the   Methodist    Episcopal 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  467 

Church  South.     Issue:  ii.  EUa^;  iii.  May  Cabell^; 
iv.  Addison  Abell  J ;  and  v.  Ruth  Scarritt  ^  King. 

vii.  Harriet  J.^  Abell,  b.  February  10,  1849 ;  m.  George 
M.  Wyatt,  and  d.  leaving  one  child :  i.  Harriet 
Emily  ^  Wyatt,  who  hves  with  her  father  in  La 
Salle,  Illinois. 
viii.  Pamela  Davis  ^  Abell,  b.  July  2,  1851;  m.  Edward 
Couch.  Issue,  a  son  and  a  daughter,  "  who  live 
near  Galveston,  Texas.  The  daughter,  i.  Hallie 
AbelF  Couch,  m.  Mr.  Ingram,  of  Texas." 

ix.  Adela  T.*^  Abell,  d.  infant. 

X.  Ellen  ^  Abell,  b.  August  5,  1856 ;  m.  George  Bloom. 
Issue  :  i.  George  ^ ;  and  ii.  Imogen  ^  Bloom. 

xi.  Peter  Thompson  ^  Abell,  b.  1858 ;  m.  Maggie  Stephen- 
son.    Issue  :  i.  Cecil  Thompson  ^  Abell. 

337.  Jane  Browder^  Cabell,  born  in  Chariton  County, 
Mo.,  July  14,  1823 ;  died  in  Keytesville,  Mo.,  January  21, 
1849 ;  married,  November  29,  1845,  Thomas  Parke  Wil- 
kinson, a  lawyer  (born  in  Prince  Edward  or  Buckingham 
County,  Va.)     Their  only  child  :  — 

340.  i.  John  Cabell '  Wilkinson,  b.  December  13,  1846. 
He  hved  with  his  grandparents  until  their  death, 
then  with  his  father,  who  had  married  again,  and 
was  practicing  law  in  Grundy  County,  Mo.  He 
was  in  the  C.  S.  A.  ;  after  the  war  went  into 
business  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  and  is  now  with  the 
Hargadine-McKittrick  Dry  Goods  Company.  He 
m.,  in  1877,  Margaret  Ewing,  a  sister  to  the  wife 
of  Senator  F.  M.  Cockrell,  of  Missouri,  and  a 
daughter  of  Judge  Ephraim  B.  Ewing  (son  of 
Rev.  Finis  Ewing,  and  grandson  of  Gen.  WilHam 
Davidson,  of  the  Revolution)  by  his  wife,  Eliza- 
beth Allen  (sister  of  the  late  Gov.  Henry  Watkins 
Allen,  of  Louisiana),  daughter  of  Dr.  Thomas 
Allen  and  his  wife,  Nancy  Watkins,  daughter  of 
Col.  Thomas  Watkins  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth  A. 


468  THE   CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

Venable,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Elizabeth 
Woodson  Venable,  and  granddaughter  of  Abra- 
ham and  Martha  Davis  Venable,  of  Virginia. 
Issue,  seven  :  i.  Margaret  Ewing " ;  ii.  William 
Tudor  ^ ;  iii.  Jane  Alice  ^ ;  iv.  John  Cabell ' ;  v. 
Elizabeth  Allen ^  (dead);  vi.  Florence  Ewing ^; 
and  vii.  Dorothy  Brevard  ^  Wilkiiison. 

338.  Pocahontas  Rebecca  **  Cabell,  born  November  29, 
1830 ;  married,  March  15,  1818,  Adamantine  Johnson,  a 
merchant,  of  Brunswick,  Chariton  County,  Mo.  She  died 
in  Chariton  County,  in   November,  1881.     Issue  eight :  — 

i.  Edward  Cabell  ^  Johnson,  b.  May  29, 1819  ;  m.  Nannie 

Henry.     Issue  :  i.  Hattie  ^ ;  ii.  Marie  ^ ;  iii.  Henry  ^ ; 

iv.  Pocahontas^  Johnson. 
ii.  Adamantine  ^  Johnson,   Jr.,  b.  January  21,  1850 ;  m. 

(first)    Nannie  Scott.     Issue:  i.  Maud^;  ii.  CabelP 

Johnson ;    m.     (second)     Miss     Bernard.      Issue : 

iii.  Bernard  ^  Johnson. 
iii.  Robert  Fisher  ^  Johnson,  b.  December   25,  1852  ;  m. 

Louisa  Clinkscales,  and  has  two  children, 
iv.  Emma  Maud  ^  Johnson,  b.  October  19,  1854 ;  m.  Dr. 

James  Morrison.     Issue:  i.   Emily  Maud^;  and  ii. 

Sarah  Johnson"^  Morrison. 
V.  Major  Matthias^  Johnson,  b.  1857;  d.  young, 
vi.  Nova  Zembla  ^  Johnson. 

vii.  Pocahontas  CabeU  ^  Johnson,  m.  Charles  Delaney. 
viii.  Susan  Cabell  ^  Johnson. 

339.  Robert  Hervey  ^  Cabell,  born  in  Chariton  County, 
Mo.,  December  13,  1832 ;  a  practicing  physician  of  Grundy 
County,  Mo. ;  married  (first),  December  6,  1853,  Ellen  C. 
Ballentine,  of  Missouri,  who  died  s.  p. ;  married  (second), 
August  12,  1857,  Alice  Ohver,  of  Pennsylvania,  and  had 
issue  by  her,  five  :  — 

i.  Hattie  F.^  Cabell, 
ii.  Janie  Oliver®  Cabell. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     469 

iii.  Pocahontas^  Cabell, 
iv.  Robert  Hervej  ^  Cabell. 
V.  Charles  J.*^  Cabell. 

He  married  (thii-d)  Sarah  Wright,  and  has  by  her,  five :  — 
vi.  Ea  Wright  ^CabeU. 
vii.  Marie  Wright  ^  Cabell, 
viii.  Edward  Blair  ^  Cabell, 
ix.  Emily  Monroe  ^  CabeU. 
X.  Harriet  F.^  CabeU. 


82.  Benjamin  W.  S^  Cabell,  born  at  "  Repton,"  May 
10,  1793  ;  was  educated  at  Hampden  Sidney  "  during  the 
vice-presidency  of  Rev.  WiUiam  S.  Reid ; "  went  to  Ken- 
tucky with  his  father  in  1811,  but  returned  to  Virginia 
with  his  aunt,  Mrs.  EHzabeth  Lewis,  and  her  husband,  and 
lived  with  them  for  some  time.  He  was  educated  for  the 
law,  but  owing  to  an  unfortunate  diffidence  decHned  prac- 
tice. He  served  in  the  War  of  1812,  first  on  the  staff  of 
Brigadier-General  Joel  Lef twdch,  and  afterwards  on  the  staff 
of  Major-General  John  Pegram.  After  the  war,  he  held  in 
succession  the  commission  of  major,  colonel,  brigadier- 
general,  and  major-general  of  mihtia,  the  two  last  being 
by  election  of  the  General  Assembly. 

He  was  married  by  Rev.  Moses  Hoge  (then  President  of 
Hampden  Sidney  College),  on  December  16,  1816,  to  Sallie 
Epes,  daughter  of  Major  John  and  Mary  Doswell,  of  Notto- 
way County,  Va.  He  removed  to  Pittsylvania  County 
(settled  in  Danville),  and  represented  that  county  in  the 
House  of  Delegates  for  a  number  of  years,  beginning  with 
1823.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention 
of  1829-1830,  of  the  state  senate  in  1837-1838,  and  for 
a  time  edited  a  paper  in  Danville.  From  his  entrance  into 
pubhc  life,  he  was  the  unflagging  supporter  of  the  Univer- 
sity, the  James  River  and  Kanawha  Canal,  an  enlarged  and 
liberal  system  of  pubhc  education,  and  of  internal  improve- 
ment. In  1858,  he  wrote :  "I  was  honored  with  the 
friendship  of  Joseph  C.  Cabell,  and  it  is  consolatory  to  me 


470  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

to  reflect  that  in  my  humble  sphere  I  was  able  to  con- 
ti'ibute  somewhat  to  the  great  plans  to  which  he  patrioti- 
cally devoted  his  life.  He  labored  not  in  vain,  but  secured 
for  himself  an  exalted  place  in  the  temple  of  fame." 

"  Gen.  Cabell  had  served  in  the  War  of  1812,  which  was 
waged  for  the  ^dndication  of  Northern  rights,  and  in  1861, 
no  man  took  a  firmer  stand  for  the  vindication  of  Southern 
riohts  than  he  did.  Althouoh  too  old  and  infirm  to  enter 
the  service  himself,  at  the  first  blast  of  the  trumpet  of  war 
he  gave  his  six  sons  to  the  Southern  cause,  leaving  no 
one  at  home  to  smooth  his  dpng  pillow  or  to  minister  to 
him  in  his  dying  hour."  He  died  at  "  Bridgewater,"  his 
residence,  in  the  county  of  Pittsylvania,  Va.,  on  Saturday, 
April  19,  1862,  after  a  brief  illness.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  and  died  at  peace  with 
God  and  man. 

Mrs.  Sarah  Epes  Doswell  Cabell  was  born  April  27,  1802 ; 
died  August  5,  1874,  at  the  residence  of  her  son,  Hon. 
George  C.  Cabell,  in  Danville,  Va.     Issue  eleven  :  — 

341.  i.  Pocahontas  Rebecca^  Cabell. 

342.  ii.  John  Roy  Cabell. 

iii.  Vii-ginia  J.  Cabell,  b.  1825;  d.  1832. 

343.  iv.  William  Lewis  Cabell. 

344.  V.  Powhatan  BoUino:  Cabell, 
vi.  An  infant,  d.  unnamed. 

345.  vii.  Algernon  Sidney  Cabell. 

346.  viii.  George  Craighead  Cabell. 

347.  ix.  Sarah  Epes  Cabell. 

348.  X.  Joseph  Robert  Cabell. 

xi.  Benjamin  Edward  Cabell,  b.  December  8,  1842  ; 
lieutenant  38th  Virginia  Regiment,  C.  S.  A. ; 
d.  March  17,  1862,  at  Chimborazo  Hospital, 
Richmond,  Va.  His  aged  father  did  not  know 
of  his  illness  until  the  telegraph  announced  his 
death.  He  never  rallied  from  the  shock,  and 
soon  after  the  loss  of  his  "  Benjamin  "  the  father 
joined  the  son  where  parting  is  no  more. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  471 

341.  Pocahontas  R.^  Cabell,  born  in  Danville,  Va.,  June 
29,  1819 ;  married,  at  her  father's  residence,  by  Rev. 
Archibald  Montgomery,  on  August  25,  1836,  to  Col.  John 
Tyler  Hairston,  of  "  Red  Plains,"  Henry  County,  Va.  He 
died  of  consumption,  at  Jacksonville,  Fla.,  where  he  had 
gone  for  his  health,  January  13, 1857,  and  was  buried  near 
his  former  residence,  in  Henry  County,  Va.  His  wife  died 
February  3,  1858,  at  "  Bridge  water,"  and  was  buried  by 
the  side  of  her  husband.  [He  was  a  son  of  George 
Hairston  (by  his  wife,  Louisa  Hardiman),  son  of  Col. 
George  Hairston  (by  his  wife,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Letcher,  born 
May  13,  1759,  daughter  of  Nicholas  and  Bethinia  Harden 
Perkins ;  see  322),  son  of  Robert  and  Ruth  Stoval  Hair- 
ston ;  see  121.]     Issue  nine  :  — 

i.  Virginia  ^  Hairston,  b.  July  4,  1837  ;  never  married, 
ii.  Louisa  Hardiman  Hairston,  b.  July  7,  1839,  in  Henry 
County,  Va. ;  m.,  July  3,  1860,  Virginius  Randolph 
Williams,  of  Lunenburg  County,  Va.     Issue  :  — 
i.  Ellen  Gertrude'  Williams,  b.  May  16,  1861 ;  m. 
Wythe  M.  Peyton.     He  is  now  dead. 

ii.  Belle '  Wilhams,  b.  in  September,  1866  ;  d. 

iii.  Elizabeth  Lewis  ^  Hairston,  b.  March  20,  1841,  in 
Henry  County,  Va. ;  m.,  November  9,  1859,  at 
"  Bridge  water,"  Livingston  Claiborne,  of  Pittsyl- 
vania County,  Va.  Issue  six  :  i.  Leonard ',  b.  Octo- 
ber 26,  1860 ;  ii.  Elizabeth  Cabell,  b.  in  February, 

1867;  d. ;  iii.  Pocahontas  Boiling,  b.  in  March, 

1869;  m.  E.  W.  Griggs;  iv.  Tyler  Hairston,  b. 
February,  1872;  v.  George  C.  Cabell;  and  vi.  Letitia 
Claihorne. 
iv.  George  Hairston,  b.  1843 ;  d.  infant. 
V.  Sarah  Epes  Doswell  Hairston,  b.  May  21,  1845 ;  m., 
December  18,  1866,  James  S.  Redd,  of  Henry 
County,  Va. ;  member  of  Company  A,  18th  Virginia 
Infantry,  C.  S.  A.  Issue  three :  i.  Sarah  Hill,  b.  in 
August,  1868 ;  ii.  James  S.,  Jr.,  b.  in  July,  1871  ; 
and  iii.  Cabell  Redd. 


472  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

vi.  Benjamin    Cabell  ^   Hairston,  b.   February  10,  1847 ; 

m.,    November    14,    1872,    Powell    Huse    Lash,  of 

Stokes  County,  N.  C.     Issue  three:  i.  Annie ^;  ii. 

George  Cabell ;  and  iii.  Lettie  Hairston. 
vii.  Hardiman^  Hairston. 
viii.  John  Tyler  Hairston,  b.  in  1851;  m.  Elizabeth  Dillard  ; 

and  d.,  leaving  two  children. 
ix.  Powhatan  Boiling  ^  Hairston,  b.  in  1853 ;  d.  young. 

342.  John  Roy  Cabell,  born  March  24,  1823 ;  at  Univer- 
sity of  Virginia,  1848-1850  ;  graduated  M.  D.  ;  married 
(first),  June  19,  1847,  Martha  C.  Wilson  (born  November 
22,  1823;  died  June  15,  1859),  daughter  of  Col.  Nathaniel 
Wilson,  by  his  wife,  Winifred,  daughter  of  William  Tun- 
stall,  Esq.,  clerk  of  the  county  and  superior  courts  of  Pitt- 
sylvania for  many  years.  Dr.  Cabell  married  (second)  Mrs. 
Kate  Clements.  She  died  without  issue.  Dr.  Cabell,  wdio 
is  still  living,  had  by  his  first  wdfe :  — 

i.  Ann  EHza"^  Cabell,  b.  March  27,  1848;  m.  John  A. 
Coleman ;  and  d.,  leaving  issue  five :  i.  Martha  AV. ; 
ii.  John  Roy ;  iii.  Daniel ;  iv.  Benjamin ;  and  v.  Jo- 
seph Coleman. 

ii.  William  C.^  Cabell,  b.  May  11, 1851 ;  graduated  M.  D., 
Baltimore  ;  m.  Mary  Watson ;  and  d.,  leaving  three 
children  :  i.  Katie  ;  ii.  Mary  ;  and  iii.  John  R.  Cabell. 
iii.  Mary  W.*^  Cabell,  b.  August  15, 1853  ;  m.  0.  C.  Smith, 
and  has :  i.  Cabell ;  ii.  Carrington ;  and  iii.  Roy 
Smith. 

iv.  Nathaniel  W.^  Cabell,  b.  September  3,  1855 ;  m.  Essie 
Frederick  ;  and  d.,  leaving  issue  four  :  i.  John  Roy ; 
ii.  Benjamin;  iii.  Frederick ;  and  iv.  George  C.  Cabell. 
V.  John  R.^  Cabell,  Jr.,  b.  June  8,  1859  ;  d.  unmarried. 

343.  William  Lewis  ^  Cabell,  born  in  Danville,  Va.,  Jan- 
uary 1,  1827 ;  entered  the  U.  S.  Military  Academy,  West 
Point,  in  June,  1846,  and  graduated  in  1850 ;  entered  the 
U.  S.  A.  as  second  lieutenant  7th  Infantry ;  promoted  first 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  473 

lieutenant,  June,  1855  ;  promoted  captain,  March,  1858 ; 
served  in  the  Utah  expedition  ;  at  Fort  Kearney ;  at  Fort 
Arbuckle,  Fort  Cobb,  etc.  In  March,  1861,  when  war  be- 
tween the  sections  became  inevitable,  he  resigned  from  the 
U.  S.  A.,  cast  his  lot  with  his  people,  entered  the  C.  S.  A., 
was  commissioned  as  major,  "and,  under  orders  from  Pres- 
ident Davis,  went  on  April  21  to  Richmond,  Va.,  to  organ- 
ize the  quartermaster's,  commissary,  and  ordnance  depart- 
ments." On  June  1,  1861,  he  was  ordered  to  Manassas  as 
chief  quartermaster  of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  on  Gen. 
Beauregard's  staff.  After  the  battles  of  July  18  and  21, 
he  served  on  Gen.  Joseph  E.  Johnston's  staff  until  January 
15,  1862,  when  he  was  transferred  to  the  trans-Mississippi 
Department  for  service  under  Gen.  Van  Dorn ;  was  soon 
promoted  brigadier-general,  and  assigned  to  command  of 
all  the  troops  on  White  River.  After  the  battle  of  Elk 
Horn,  March  6  and  7,  1862,  the  trans-Mississippi  army  was 
transferred  to  the  east  side  of  the  Mississippi  River;  the 
removal,  being  under  the  especial  charge  of  Gen.  Cabell, 
was  performed  within  a  single  week.  He  continued  in  ac- 
tive service  with  this  army,  especially  distinguishing  him- 
self in  the  battles  of  luka  and  Saltillo  in  September,  at 
Corinth,  October  2  and  3,  and  at  Hatchie's  Bridge,  October 
4.  He  was  wounded  while  leading  the  celebrated  charge  of 
his  brigade  on  the  breastworks  at  Corinth,  and  again  at 
Hatchie's  Bridge,  which  disabled  him  from  command  for 
a  time.  Owing  to  his  fighting  qualities,  he  was  called 
"  Old  Tiger"  by  his  soldiers.  While  recuperating  from  his 
wounds,  he  was  ordered  to  inspect  the  staff  department 
of  the  trans -Mississippi  army.  When  able  to  report  for 
active  duty,  in  February,  1863,  he  was  placed  in  command 
of  all  the  forces  in  northwest  Arkansas,  and  succeeded  in 
organizing  one  of  the  largest  and  finest  brigades  of  cavalry 
west  of  the  Mississippi.  He  commanded  this  noted  brigade 
in  1863  and  1864,  leading  it  in  engagements  almost  too 
numerous  to  mention.  On  the  raid  into  Missouri  under 
Gen.  Price,  he  was  captured  on  October  24,  1864,  taken  to 


474  THE   CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

Johnson's  Island  in  Lake  Erie,  and  thence  to  Fort  Warren, 
Boston  harbor,  where  he  was  confined  until  August  28, 
1865. 

On  being  released.  Gen.  Cabell  went  to  New  York,  then 
to  Austin,  Texas,  and  then  to  Fort  Smith,  Ark. ;  studied 
law  (as  he  had  no  other  profession  than  a  military  one),  and 
as  soon  as  qualified,  was  licensed  and  began  to  practice  his 
new  profession.  He  was  chairman  of  the  Democratic  Exec- 
utive Committee  in  Arkansas,  and  chairman  of  the  Arkan- 
sas delegation  to  the  Baltimore  convention  which  nomi- 
nated Horace  Greeley  for  the  presidency. 

In  December,  1872,  he  removed  to  Dallas,  Texas,  and 
was  elected  mayor  of  that  city  in  1874,  1875,  1876,  and 
1882.  He  was  a  delegate  from  Texas  to  the  conventions 
that  nominated  President  Tilden  and  President  Cleveland. 
During  Cleveland's  first  administration  he  was  United  States 
marshal  for  Texas. 

At  the  Confederate  reunion,  held  at  Chattanooga,  Tenn., 
July  3,  1890,  Gen.  Cabell  was  elected  lieutenant-general  of 
the  United  Confederate  Veterans,  commanding  the  trans- 
Mississippi  Department,   which   embraces  all  the    country 
west  of  the  Mississippi  River.     Although  67  years  old,  the 
general  is  well,  strong,  and  actively  engaged  in  business. 
He  was  married,  July  22,  1856,  to  Harriet  A.  Rector  (eldest 
daughter  of   Maj.  Elias  Rector  and  Catharine  Duval,  his 
wife),  at  her  father's  residence,  near  Fort  Smith,  Ark.     She 
was  always  called  "  Shingo,"  the  name  given  her  in   her 
infancy  by  an  Osage  chief,  meaning  "  Little  Bird."     The 
Rectors  were  from  Fauquier    County,  Va.,  and  the  Duvals 
from  near  Parkersburg,  W.  Va.,  but  of  Huguenot  origin. 
The  Rectors  were  of  English  ancestry.     Mrs.  Cabell  died 
while  on  a  visit  to  her  mother,  April  16,  1887,  having  had 
issue  :  — 
i.  Benjamin  E.«  Cabell,  b.  November  18,  1858.     "  He  is 
now  (1894)  sheriff  of  Dallas  County,  Texas,  being 
the  youngest  man  who  ever  held  that  office." 
ii.  Katie  Doswell^  Cabell,  m.,  April  24,  1889,  John  R. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     475 

Currie,  a  Mississippian  by  birth.  She  is  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  Society  of  the  Daughters  of  the  Confed- 
eracy. 

iii.  John  J.^  Cabell,  b.  in  Fort  Smith,  Ark.,  November  28, 
1870 ;  sheriff  of  Dallas  city,  Texas. 

iv.  Lawrence  Du  Val*^  Cabell,  b.  in  Dallas,  Texas,  August 
22,    1874;    a  student  at  Baylor  University,   Waco, 
Texas ;  was  appointed  to  a  cadetship  at  West  Point 
in  the  fall  of  1894. 
V.  Lewis  Rector^  Cabell,  b.  in  Dallas,  January  3,  1879. 

vi.  and  vii.     Two  others,  d.  infants. 

344.  Powhatan  Boiling  ^  CabeU,  born  October  17,  1828; 
attended  the  medical  school  of  the  University  of  Virginia, 
1848-1849,  and  then  attended  medical  lectiu-es  in  Phila- 
delphia, where  he  graduated.  He  afterwards  attended  the 
medical  schools  of  London  and  Paris;  returned  to  the 
United  States  in  1855,  and  spent  the  winter  in  Cuba,  hop- 
ing to  restore  his  shattered  health.  The  next  year  he  went 
to  Mexico  with  three  friends,  and  in  November,  when  travel- 
ing, about  150  miles  north  of  Zacatecas,  they  were  attacked 
by  sixteen  Comanche  Indians.  Dr.  Cabell  killed  an  Indian 
who  had  wounded  him  with  an  arrow.  The  Indians  dis- 
mounted, seized  the  dead  body,  and  rode  with  it  rapidly 
away.  The  arrow  entered  the  fleshy  part  of  his  thigh, 
near  the  main  artery,  and  but  for  a  "  New  York  Herald  " 
and  a  pocket-book,  which  it  went  through,  must  have 
proved  fatal.  He  married  Jane  B.  Lanier,  September  3, 
1857,  and  died  at  the  home  of  James  Jackson,  in  Florence, 
Ala.,  December  14,  1859,  without  issue. 

345.  Algernon  Sidney^  Cabell,  born  November  25, 
1832 ;  married,  December  22,  1859,  Mary  Angela  Carroll, 
daughter  of  Col.  De  Rosa  Carroll  (C.  S.  A.),  of  Arkansas. 
A.  S.  Cabell  went  to  Arkansas  in  April,  1858,  and  is  now 
(1894)  farming  on  the  Arkansas  River.  He  was  a  major 
in  the  C.  S.  A.,  a  brave  and  gallant  soldier.  His  children 
are :  — 


476  THE   CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

i.  De  Rosa  Carroll  ^  Cabell,  admitted  as  a  cadet  at  West 
Point,   N.  Y.,    July  1,    1880,    aged   18   years,    11 
months. 
ii.  Sallie  Doswell  ^  Cabell, 
iii.  Benjamin^  Cabell, 
iv.  Powhatan  ^  Cabell. 

346.  George  Craighead^  Cabell,  born  at  Danville,  Va., 
January  25,  1836  ;  educated  at  the  Danville  Academy  and 
the  University  of  Virginia  ;  commenced  the  practice  of  law 
at  Danville  in  1858;  edited  "The  Republican"  and  then 
"  The  Democratic  Appeal,"  of  Danville ;  commonwealth's 
attorney  1858  to  April  23,  1861,  when  he  volunteered  as 
a  private  soldier  in  the  C.  S.  A. ;  commissioned  major  in 
June,  1861,  and  assigned  to  the  18th  Virginia  Infantry 
Regiment ;  served  through  the  war,  was  tmce  wounded, 
and  attained  the  rank  of  colonel ;  after  the  war,  returned 
to  the  practice  of  his  profession  ;  represented  the  fifth  Vir- 
ginia district  in  the  United  States  Congress,  1875-1887, 
and  is  now  an  attorney  at  law  of  Danville,  Va.  He  mar- 
ried (first),  October  25,  1859,  Mary  Harrison  Baird,  a  de- 
scendant from  Nathaniel  (1742-1782),  brother  of  Carter 
Henry  Harrison  ;  she  died  September  30,  1890.  He  mar- 
ried (second),  in  November,  1892,  Ellen  Virginia  Asliton, 
of  Portsmouth,  Va.,  by  whom  he  has  no  issue.  His  sur- 
vivino"  children  are  :  — 
i.  Sarah  D.*^  Cabell,  m.  L.  H.  Lewis.     They  live  in  Dallas, 

Texas,  and   have  :  i.  George   C. ;  ii.  Benjamin  H. ; 

and  iii.  Archibald  L.  Lewis. 
ii.  Annie  D.*^  Cabell,  m.  Garland  S.  Wooding.     They  live 

in  Danville,  Va.,  and  have  :  i.  Jennie  Garland ;  and 

ii.  Mary  Baird  Wooding. 
iii.  Benjamin  W.  S.^  Cabell,  a  physician,  of  Ringgold, Va. ; 

m.,   January   1,  1895,   Nannie,   daughter    of    Capt. 

Thomas  D.  Bradley,  of  Ringgold, 
iv.  George  C.*'  CabeU,  Jr.,  attorney  at  law  at  Marlin,  Falls 

County,  Texas ;  m.  Katie  Graveley,  and  has :  i.  Mary 

B.  Cabell. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     477 

V.  Powhatan  Algernon  ^  Cabell,  a  student  at  Blacksburg 
College,  Va. 

347.  Sarah  Epes  ^  Cabell,  born  in  Danville,  November  25, 
1838  ;  married,  by  Rev.  J.  Mason  Kirkpatrick,  on  February 
7,  1860,  to  Richard  Junius  Epes,  of  Lunenburg  County, 
Va.     He  died  December  14,  1861,  leaving  one  son  :  — 

i.  Junius  ^  Epes,  b.  March  31,  1861. 

Mrs.  Sarah  E.^  Cabell  Epes  was  married  (second),  at 
Bridgewater,  by  Rev.  Thomas  Ward  White,  on  January 
20,  1864,  to  Ashley  L.  Davis,  of  Lunenburg  County,  Va. 
Mrs.  Davis  died  at  her  home  on  Grove  Street,  Danville, 
Va.,  November  9,  1876.  Her  children  by  her  second  mar- 
riajje  were  :  — 
ii.  Joseph    Cabell  ^   Davis,   b.  at   "  Ingleside,"  Lunenburg 

County,  July  30,  1867. 
iii.  Mary  Pocahontas^  Davis,  b.  at  Bridgewater,  August  8, 

1869 ;  m.,  in  October,  1890,    George  A.  Muncaster, 

of  Henderson,  Ky. 
iv.  Sallie  Ashley  ^  Davis,  b.  1875 ;  d.  1878,  and  is  buried 

in    Green     Hill   Cemetery   at    Danville    beside    her 

mother. 

348.  Joseph  Robert^  Cabell,  born  May  28,  1840;  mar- 
ried, December  16, 1863,  Mary  Elizabeth  Irby.  He  entered 
the  C.  S.  A.  as  a  private  in  the  Danville  Blues ;  served  with 
constant  distinction  in  the  Army  of  Northern  Virginia; 
was  rapidly  promoted,  and  was  killed  while  in  command  of 
his  regiment,  the  38th  Virginia,  leading  a  charge  against 
Butler's  forces,  near  Drury's  Bluff,  May  10,  1864.  His 
last  words  were,  "I  have  done  my  duty ;  I  am  not  afraid 
to  die." 

He  left  no  children. 


83.  Mary  Pocahontas  Rebecca  *  Cabell,  born  at  Repton 
in  1798  ;  married,  at  the  residence  of  her  brother,  Gen. 
B.  W.  S.  Cabell,  in  DanvHle,  Va.,  on  March  27,  1818,  to 


478  THE   CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

Peyton  Doswell,  Esq.,  a  lawyer,  of  Nottoway  County,  Va. 
They  emigrated  to  Henderson  County,  Ky.  They  had  two 
children,  but  almost  within  a  year  the  father,  mother,  and 
children  died  of  "  the  slow  "  (probably  t^jyhus)  fever.  Mr. 
Doswell  died  in  December,  1820,  and  his  wife  on  February 
4,  1821. 

84.  Jane  Randolph  *  Cabell,  born  at  Repton,  August  29, 
1805 ;  married  Philip  T.  Allin,  of  Harrodsburg,  Ky., 
May  6,  1824.  She  died  of  cholera,  June  23,  1833.  Her 
children  were :  — 

349.  i.  Joseph  Cabell^  AlHn. 

350.  ii.  Mary  Ann  ^  Allin. 

iii.  Thomas    Grant  ^    Allin,    b.  August   2,  1829;    d. 
March  17,  1832. 

351.  iv.  Elizabeth  Randolph  ^  Allin. 

Mr.  Philip  T.  Allin  was  born  May  5,  1803 ;  married 
(second)  Mary  S.  E.  Hart,  daughter  of  Capt.  William  Hart, 
of  Henderson  County,  Ky.,  and  died  at  Harrodsburg,  No- 
vember 23,  1849. 

349.  Joseph  Cabell  ^  Allin,  born  March  14,  1825 ;  mar- 
ried (first)  Susan  A.  Smith,  daughter  of  Obadiah  Smith,  of 
Henderson,  Ky.     She  died  without  issue. 

J.  C.  Allin  married  (second)  Mrs. Brown,  of  Louis- 
ville.    No  issue. 

350.  Mary  Ann  ^  AlKn,  born  August  2,  1827 ;  married 
Rev.  Stephen  A.  Collier,  of  "  The  Crab  Orchard,"  Ken- 
tucky, September  23,  1849.     Issue  eight :  — 

i.  Elizabeth  Cabell  ^  Collier, 
ii.  WilHam  A.^  Colher. 
iii.  Susan  Harrison  ^  Collier, 
iv.  Stephen  B.^  Collier. 
v.  John  *^  Collier. 
vi.  CabeU*^  CoUier. 
vii.  "  Pattie  "  ^  Collier, 
viii.  Mary^  Collier. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     479 

351.  Elizabeth  Randolph  ^  AUin,  born  December  13, 
1831 ;  married  Dr.  Edwin  G.  Hall,  of  West  Point,  Ky., 
July  12,  1852.  He  was  a  colonel  in  the  C.  S.  A.  They 
now  (1891)  live  in  California.     Issue  one  :  — 

i.  Joseph  Cabell  ^  Hall,  b.  June  3,  1854 ;  d.  September  30, 
1855.  

85.  John  Breckenridge  *  Cabell,  born  at  "  Repton,"  Jan- 
uary 5,  1808 ;  died  July  18, 1862  ;  married  (first),  January 
26,  1830,  Mary  Coalter  Wardlow,  whose  mother  was  a 
daughter  of  Major-General  Samuel  Hopkins.  Their  chil- 
dren (two  in  number)  died  in  infancy.  Mrs.  Mary  Coalter 
Cabell  died  June  19,  1835. 

J.  B.^  Cabell  married  (second),  April  25,  1839,  Martha 
Posey,  only  daughter  of  Capt.  John  Posey,  of  Henderson, 
Ky.,  who  was  a  son  of  Gen.  Thomas  Posey,  of  the  Revolu- 
tion, distinguished  at  Stony  Point  and  elsewhere  ;  lieutenant- 
governor  of  Kentucky ;  U.  S.  Senator  from  Louisiana, 
etc.^     Issue :  — 

352.  iii.  John  Posey  ^  Cabell. 

353.  iv.  Mary  Frances  ^  CabeU. 

354.  V.  Sears  ^Cabell. 

352.  John  Posey  ^  Cabell,  born  August  19,  1841 ;  mar- 
ried (first),  February  28,  1871,  Sarah  Elizabeth  Trumbo, 
and  had  one  child  :  — 

i.  Elizabeth  ^  Cabell. 

The  mother  and  child  both  died  in  two  years. 

J.  P,^  Cabell  married  (second),  December  12,  1876,  Jen- 
nie Duval,  daughter  of  Samuel  Shepherd  Duval.  They  are 
now  (1891)  hving  in  Corsicana,  Texas,  and  have  four  chil- 
dren :  — 

ii.  Samuel  Shepherd^  Cabell,  b.  August  19,  1878. 
iii.  Archibald  Boiling^  Cabell,  b.  April  17,  1881. 
iv.  John  Posey  ^  Cabell,  b.  January  13,  1884. 
V.  Calvin  S.*^  CabeU,  b.  November  5,  1886. 

^  See  his  Life  in  Sparks'  American  Biography. 


480  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR   KIN 

353.  Mary  Frances^  Cabell,  born  November  13,  1845; 
married,  December  18,  1862,  Calvin  W.  Woodbridge,  son 
of  a  Presbyterian  minister.  They  are  now  (1891)  li^dng  in 
Henderson  County,  Ky.,  and  have  three  children :  — 

i.  Louisa^  Woodbridge,  b.  October  16,  1867. 
ii.  Kate '  Woodbridge,  b.  April  18,  1871. 
iii.  Mary  ^  Woodbridge,  b.  November  12,  1875. 
They  have  lost  several  in  infancy. 

354.  Sears  ^  Cabell,  M.  D.,  of  Henderson,  Ky.,  born  May 
10,  1848 ;  married,  November  15,  1870,  his  cousin.  Althaea 
Spalding  Cabell.     Issue  nine  :  — 

i.  William  Nicholas*^  Cabell,  b.  January  11,  1875. 

ii.  Robert  Boiling'^  Cabell,  b.  1877;  d.  1884. 

iii.  Sears'^  Cabell,  b.  July  29,  1878. 

iv.  John  Breckinridge^  Cabell,  b.  1880;  d.  1881. 

v.  Frank  Murray*^  Cabell,  b.  February  1,  1882. 

vi.  Allie  Spalding «  Cabell,  b.  June  13,  1884. 
vii.  George  Wilson*^  Cabell,  b.  July  28,  1886. 
viii.  Ellen '  Cabell,  b.  September  13,  1888. 

ix.  Susan  ^  Cabell,  b.  April  10,  1892. 


86.  Elizabeth  Kobertson  ^  Cabell,  born  at  "  Repton," 
May  13,  1809 ;  died  September  23,  1852,  in  Kentucky,  of 
cholera.  She  married  (first),  April  4,  1826,  James  B. 
Pollitt,  a  merchant  and  tobacconist  from  Baltimore^  Md., 
located  in  Henderson  County,  Ky.  He  died  October  28, 
1832.     Issue  three  :  — 

355.  i.  Ann  Ballard^  Pollitt. 

356.  ii.  Virginia  James  ^  Pollitt. 

iii.  Susan  ^  Pollitt,  b.  September  14,  1831;  d.  May 
12,  1835. 
86.  Mrs.  EHzabeth  R.*  Cabell  Pollitt  married  (second), 
March  13,  1834,  Hon.  Archibald  Dixon,  a  distinguished 
lawyer,  lieutenant-governor  of,  and  United  States  Senator 
from,  Kentucky,  etc.,  born  in  North  Carolina,  April  2, 
1802 ;  died  in  Kentucky,  April  23,  1876.    He  was  a  son  of 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     481 

Warren  Dixon  and  grandson  of  Col.  Henry  Dixon,  soldiers 
of  the  Revolution  from  North  Carolina.     Issue  seven  :  — 
iv.  Wynn  ^  Dixon,  b.  February  6,  1835  ;  d.  young. 

357.  V.  Rebecca  Hart  Dixon. 

358.  vi.  Susan  Belle  Dixon. 

359.  vii.  Archibald  Dixon. 

360.  viii.  Henry  Cabell  Dixon. 

361.  ix.  Joseph  Cabell  Dixon. 

X.  Wynn  Dixon,  b.  April  5,  1851  j  d.  December, 
1860. 

355.  Ann  Ballard  ^  PoUitt,  born  January  4,  1828 ;  mar- 
ried, March  23,  1852,  Lafayette  Jones,  M.  D.,  of  Henderson 
County,  Ky.,  a  graduate  of  the  Medical  Department  of  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania ;  he  died  in  1866.  His  widow 
and  daughters  reside  in  Henderson,  Ky.     Issue  :  — 

i.  Elizabeth  PoUitt '  Jones,  b.  July  8,  1854. 
ii.  Mary  Ballard  Jones,  b.  March  24,  1856. 

356.  Virginia  James  ^  PolHtt,  born  December  18,  1829 ; 
died  March  13,  1893 ;  married,  February  27, 1849,  William 
McClain,  a  large  landholder  and  man  of  affairs  of  Hender- 
son County,  Ky.  They  had  thirteen  children.  Four  died 
young.     The  rest  are  living  :  — 

i.  William  Pollitt''  McClain,  b.  December  17,  1849;  m. 
Mary  Garland,  daughter  of  Dr.  Richard  Garland,  of 
Virginia.  He  is  a  lawyer  of  unusual  ability,  has 
served  several  terms  as  county  attorney  of  Hender- 
son, and  has  been  strongly  backed  as  a  candidate 
for  the  United  States  Congress  from  the  second  dis- 
trict of  Kentucky. 

ii.  James  Ballard*'  McClain,  b.  September  15,  1851;  a 
journahst  of  London,  England. 

iii.  Virginia  '^  McClain,  b.  July  22,  1856 ;  m.  Lee  Sehon, 
of  Louisville,  Ky.  ;  living,  in  1891,  in  Denver,  Colo. 

iv.  Kate  Atkinson  ®  McClain,  b.  August,  1858 ;  m.  Charles 
H.  Le  Sueur,  of  Louisville,  Ky.  They  live  in  Nash- 
ville, Tenn. 


482  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

V.  Rebecca  Dixon  ^  McClain,  b.  February,  1860 ;  m.  Dr. 
Rufus  Bowman,  of  Florida ;  moved  to  Decatur,  Ala., 
where  he  d.  of  yellow  fever. 

vi.  Elizabeth^  McClain,  b.  1861;  m.  R.  Lee  Suter,  attor- 
ney at  law,  of  Louisville,  Ky. 

vii.  Henry  Jackson  ^  McClain,  b.  December,  1864  j  in  real 

estate  business  in  Louisville,  Ky. 
viii.  Annie  ^  McClain,  b.  October,  1867. 

ix.  Archibald  ^  McClain,  b.  September,  1886 ;  in  railroad 
business  in  Louisville,  Ky. 

357.  Rebecca  Hart  ^  Dixon,  born  May  28,  1839 ;  mar- 
ried Hon.  John  Young  Brown,  M.  C.  from  Kentucky,  and 
at  present  governor  of  that  State.  They  have  had  issue 
eight :  — 

i.  Elizabeth  Cabell '^  Brown,  b.  1862  ;  d.  1867. 

ii.  Archibald  Dixon  ^  Brown,  b.  m  April,  1863;  private 
secretary  to  his  father ;  m.  Virginia  Marshall,  of 
Henderson,  Ky. 

iii.  John  Young  ^  Brown,  Jr.,  b.  July  21,  1865;  studied 
medicine  at  the  University  of  Virginia  and  in  New 
York ;  now  assistant  superintendent  of  "  Central 
Lunatic  Asylum,"  of  Kentucky ;  m.  Cora  South,  of 
Louisville,  Ky. 

iv.  Virginia  Singleton  "^  Brown,  b.  May  11,  1867. 

V.  Susan  Dixon  ^  Brown,  b.  April  26,  1869. 

vi.  and  vii.  Vance  and  Dudley  Brown,  twins,  d.  infants, 
viii.  Evelyn  Cabell  ^  Brown,  b.  April  4,  1872. 

358.  Susan  Belle  ^  Dixon,  born  December  20,  1840; 
married  (first)  Cuthbert,  son  of  Dr.  Llewellyn  Powell,  of 
Louisville,  Ky,  who  died,  leaving  two  children  :  — 

i.  Elizabeth*^  Powell,  d.  aged  16. 

ii.  Susan  Ballard  "^  Powell,  b.  June  16,  1860 ;  m.  J.  Haw- 
kins Hart,  clerk  of  Henderson  County,  Ky. 
Mrs.  Susan  B.°  Powell  married   (second)   Maj.  John  J. 
Reeve,  of  Richmond,  Va.,  a  soldier  in  the  C.  S.  A. ;  a  tobac- 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     483 

conist,  partner  in  the  firm  of  "  J.  D.  Burr,  Reeve  &  Co.," 
of  Henderson,  Ky.     She  died  February  28,  1884,  leaving 
four  children  by  him  :  — 
iii.  Margaret  Caskie®  Reeve,  b.  June  3,  1871. 
iv.  Mary  Gilmore*'  Reeve,  b.  November  13,  1872. 
V.  John  D.  Burr^  Reeve,  b.  December  18,  1875. 
vi.  Kate^  Reeve,  b.  February  27,  1882. 

359.  Archibald  ^  Dixon  (born  March  4,  1844),  of  Hen- 
derson, Ky.,  is  one  of  the  most  successful  and  distinguished 
physicians  and  surgeons  of  the  State ;  has  been  president  of 
the  Tri-State  Medical  Society,  etc. ;  married  Margaret  Hern- 
don,  of  Frankfort,  Ky.     Issue  four  :  — 

i.  Margaret  Herndon^  Dixon,  b.  October  11,  1865;  m. 
Edward  A.  Jonas,  of  London,  England.  Issue:  i. 
Archibald  Edward^  Jonas, 
ii.  Wynn*^  Dixon,  b.  December  27,  1866;  m.,  July  10, 
1894,  Margaret  McCreery,  of  Owensboro,  Ky.,  grand- 
daughter of  ex-United  States  Senator  Thomas  Mc- 
Creery. 

iii.  Archibald  ^  Dixon,  Jr.,  b.  in  August,  1868 ;  graduated 
with  honor  at  Bellevue  Hospital ;  makes  surgery  a 
specialty. 

iv.  Julia  Ballard^  Dixon,  b.  in  August,  1871. 

360.  Henry  Cabell'  Dixon,  born  September  19,  1845; 
attorney  at  law  of  Henderson,  Ky. ;  member  of  state  senate 
from  fifth  Kentucky  district,  1884-1886 ;  author  of  an  able 
lecture  on  "  The  Negro,"  etc. 

361.  Joseph  CabelP  Dixon,  born  December  26,  1848; 
University  of  Virginia,  1870 ;  married  Lucy  Alves,  of  Hen- 
derson, Ky.,  and  has  four  surviving  children  :  — 

i.  James  Alves  ^  Dixon,  b.  January  25,  1881. 
ii.  Susan  Reeve  ^  Dixon,  b.  August,  1883. 
iii.  Maria  Davis''  Dixon,  b.  August  7,  1886. 
iv.  Margaret  Herndon  ^  Dixon,  b.  September  19,  1892. 


484  THE   CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

87.  Robert  Boiling'*  Cabell  (second),  born  February  22, 
1812  ;  died  December  27,  1876 ;  married  (first),  January 
31,  1833,  Ann  E.  Herndon,  who  died  in  February,  1834, 
leaving  one  child :  — 
i.  Anne  E.^  Cabell,  b.  January  16,  1834 ;  d.  young. 

87.  Robert  B.^  Cabell  married  (second),  April  16,  1835, 
Eleanor,  daughter  of  Capt.  William  Hart,  of  Henderson, 
Ky. ;  she  is  still  living.     Issue  eleven  :  — 

ii.  Mary  Elizabeth  ^  Cabell,   b.  January  14,  1836 ; 

d.  November  2,  1837. 
iii.  Jane  Randolph  Cabell,  b.  March  27,  1838;  d. 
September  4,  1839. 

362.  iv.  Pocahontas  Rebecca^  Cabell,  b.  June  16,  1840; 

m.,  in  1869,  David  B.  Barbee,  of  Henderson, 
Ky.,  and  d.  September  18,  1872,  leaving  one 
child :  i.  David  Hart  ^  Barbee,  b.  February  2, 
1868. 

363.  V.  Mary  Philip^  Cabell,  b.  April  6,  1843;    m.,  in 

1868,  Col.  Livingston  G.  Taylor.  He  entered 
the  C.  S.  A.  at  16 ;  became  a  colonel  before 
the  end  of  the  war ;  d.  in  Arizona  Territory, 
June  12,  1877,  leaving  his  widow  and  one 
child,  who  live  in  Henderson,  Ky. :  i.  Mary 
CabelP  Taylor,  b.  October  31,  1873. 

364.  vi.  Susan  Cowan  ^  Cabell. 

365.  vii.  Alth^a  S.^  Cabell,  m.  Dr.  Sears  CabeU  (354). 
viii.  Laura  Bradford  ^  Cabell,  b.  February  24,  1851. 

ix.  Caroline  Allin  Cabell,  b.  January  8,   1854  ;   d. 

infant. 
X.  Robert  BoUing  Cabell,  b.  August  9,   1859 ;  d. 

infant. 
xi.  Inah  Gabriella  Cabell,  b.  June  27,  1858. 
xii.  Joseph  Benjamin   Cabell,  b.  May  3,  1862;  ap- 
pointed assistant  superintendent  of  the  railway 
mail  service  of  the  United  States  in  July,  1888, 
when  he  was  only  26. 
364.  Susan  Cowan  ^  Cabell,  b.  November  6,  1845 ;  mar- 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  485 

ried,  February  22,  1866,  John  P.  Beverley,  of  Henderson, 
Ky.     Surviving  issue  five  :  — 

i.  Robert  Cabell*^  Beverley,  b.  December  4,  1868. 
366.    ii.  Elizabeth  Edwin  Beverley,  b.  October  25,  1870; 
m.  John  P.  Crossly,  of  California,  and  has  two 
children. 
iii.  Eleanor  Hodge  ^  Beverley,  b.  May  12,  1874. 
iv.  Susan  *^  Beverley,  b.  October  5,  1879. 
V.  Harry  S.  Beverley,  b.  August  2,  1885. 


88.  George  Washington  ^  Cabell,  born  in  Fayette  County, 
Ky.,  October  16,  1814 ;  died  December  15,  1864 ;  married, 
January  8,  1837,  Mary  R.  WdKams,  of  Henderson  County, 
Ky.     Issue :  — 

i.  Ehzabeth   Randolph  ^  Cabell,  b.  August  13 ;  d. 

September  21,  1838. 
ii.  Sarah  Jane  ^  Cabell,   b.  October  13,   1839 ;  d. 
September  2,  1841. 

367.  iii.  Joseph  J.^  CabeU. 

iv.  John  Edward'  CabeU,  b.  October  12,  1843. 

V.  Martha  J.^  Cabell,  b.  May  24,  1846 ;  d.  Septem- 
ber 24,  1847. 

vi.  Robert  Harrison^  CabeU,  b.  June  12,  1847; 
d.  s.  p. 

368.  vii.  George  W.'  CabeU. 

viii.  Mary  F.'  CabeU,  b.  October  12,  1851 ;  d.  s.  p. 
ix.  Nancy    BoUing '    CabeU,    b.    March    11,   1853; 
d.  s.  p. 

369.  X.  Richard  Randolph  '  CabeU. 

370.  xi.  Virginia  Margaretta'  CabeU. 

xii.  WiUiam  Henry '  CabeU,  b.  January  31,  1860. 

367.  Joseph  J.^  CabeU,  born  February  12,  1842 ;  mar- 
ried, AprU  23,  1863,  Rhoda  WiUiams,  who  died  June  24, 
1868,  leaving  two  children  :  — 
i.  George  B.*^  CabeU,  b.  July  26,  1865. 
ii.  Louisa*^  CabeU,  b.  October  31,  1867;  m.,  August  14, 
1885,  W.  S.  Cheatham. 


486  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

368.  George  Washington^  Cabell,  born  September  3, 
1849 ;  married  Laura  B.  Wilson,  of  College  Corner,  Ohio. 
"  They  are  both  dead,  but  left  one  son,  who  is  now  (1891) 
at  school  in  Ohio." 

i.  Sears  ^  Cabell. 

369.  Richard  Randolph  ^  Cabell,  born  October  31, 1855  ; 
married  SaUie  McKendricks,  of  Henderson  County,  Ky. 
She  is  dead. 

370.  Virginia  M.^  CabeU,  b.  October  5,  1857 ;  m..  May 
8,  1878,  George  W.  McKendrick,  of  Henderson  County, 
Ky.     Issue :  — 

i.  Mary  C.«  McKendrick,  b.  February  24,  1880. 
ii.  Calvin  C.^  McKendrick,  b.  December  26,  1884. 


89.  Mary  Ann  Hopkins^  Cabell,  born  March  28,  1824  ; 
married,  September  2,  1845,  Dr.  E.  L.  Willard,  a  gentle- 
man of  Northern  birth,  located  at  Henderson,  Ky.  They 
moved  first  to  Missouri,  and  then  to  California.  Dr.  Wil- 
lard was  a  resident  of  the  town  of  San  Jose,  Santa  Clara 
County,  in  1856-1857,  and  a  citizen  of  San  Francisco  at 
the  time  of  his  wife's  death.  Issue  :  — 
i.  Joseph  CabeU  ^  Willard,  b.  in  Henderson,  Ky.,  in  June, 

1846 ;  d.  infant, 
ii.  Mary  Josephine  ^  Willard,  b.  in  Missouri,  May  5,  1848  ; 

d.  young, 
iii.  Emory  Cabell^  Willard,  b.  in  CaUfornia;  d.  s.  p. 
iv.  Lory^  WiUard,  hving. 
V.  Evanda^  Willard,  d.  s.  p. 


19.   MART  H.^  CABELL   BRECKINEIDGE'S   DESCENDANTS. 

90.  Letitia  Preston^  Breckinridge,  born  June  22,  1786, 
at  "  The  Glebe,"  Albemarle  County,  Va. ;  married  (first), 
October  24,  1804,  Alfred  WiUiam  Grayson,  born  April  16, 
1780,  in  Prince  WiUiam  County,  Va. ;  "  graduated  at  Cam- 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     487 

bridge ;  a  lawyer ;  an  exceedingly  elegant  and  accomplished 
gentleman  ;  emigrated  to  Kentucky  in  1801,  and  died  there 
October  10,  1810;  son  of  Senator  William  Grayson,  of 
Virginia."     (See  78.)     Issue  three  :  — 

i.  Smallwood^  Grayson,  d.  infant. 
371.    ii.  John  Breckinridge  ^  Grayson. 

iii.  WilHam  Lewis  ^  Grayson,  d.  young. 

90.  Mrs.  Letitia  P.*  B.  Grayson  married  (second),  Octo- 
ber 16,  1818,  Gen.  Peter  Buel  Porter,  and  when  her  hus- 
band was  Secretary  of  War  their  home  was  the  centre  of 
attraction  in  Washington.  Mrs.  Porter  was  the  moving 
spirit ;  her  mind  was  as  accomphshed  as  her  manners ;  she 
charmed  the  grave  and  fascinated  the  gay.  "  Her  inter- 
coui'se  with  the  great  world  was  as  graceful  as  it  was  exten- 
sive." She  died  July  27, 1831,  at  "  Black  Rock  "  (BiifPalo), 
N.  Y.,  and  was  buried  in  view  of  Niagara  Falls,  under  a 
monument  bearing  a  beautiful  inscription  to  her  memory. 

Her  husband.  Gen.  Peter  B.  Porter,  was  born  at  SaHs- 
bury.  Conn.,  August  14,  1773 ;  became  a  very  distin- 
guished man ;  was  member  of  Congress  from  New  York ; 
major-general,  distinguished  in  the  War  of  1812,  at  Chip- 
pewa, Niagara  Falls,  Fort  Erie,  Bridge  water,  etc. ;  ap- 
pointed chief  of  the  army  by  Pres.  Madison,  but  declined ; 
was  secretary  of  state  of  New  York ;  Secretary  of  War  of 
the  United  States,  1828-1829 ;  he  was  identified  with  the 
progress  of  western  New  York ;  a  projector  of  the  Erie 
Canal ;  a  promoter  of  internal  iinprovements,  etc.  He  died 
at  his  seat,  "  Black  Rock,"  near  Niagara  Falls,  March  20, 
1844.  He  was  a  son  of  Col.  Joshua  Porter  (1730-1826), 
of  the  Revolution  (by  his  wife,  Abigail  Buell),  the  son  of 
Nathaniel  B.  Porter  (born  1704),  the  son  of  Nathaniel  Por- 
ter (killed  in  war  of  1709),  the  son  of  Samuel  Porter 
(1626-1686)  by  his  wife,  Hannah,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Stanley,  who  came  from  London  in  1635,  and  was  one  of 
the  original  proprietors  of  Hartford,  Conn. 

Samuel  Porter's  (1626-1686)  sister,  Mary  Porter,  mar- 
ried, in  1658,  Samuel  Grant,  and  Gen.  U.  S.  Grant  de- 


488  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

scended  from  them.  Theii-  father,  John  Porter  (born  1590, 
in  Kenilworth,  Warwickshire,  England,  at  Wraxhall  Abbey, 
the  ancient  seat  of  the  family),  emigrated  to  Massachu- 
setts in  1627,  and  settled  in  Connecticut  in  1835.  See 
"  The  Descendants  of  John  Porter,"  by  Henry  Porter  An- 
drews. 

90.  Mrs.  Letitia  P.*  B.  Porter  left  two  children  by  her 
second  husband :  — 

iv.  Elizabeth   Lewis  ^   Porter,  b.  April  19,  1823;    d. 
January  28,  1876  ;  never  married. 
372.  V.  Peter  Augustus^  Porter. 

371.  John  Breckinridge^  Grayson,  born  at  "Cabell's 
Dale,"  Fayette  County,  Ky.,  October  18,  1806 ;  entered 
West  Point  Mihtary  Academy  in  1822  ;  graduated  in  1826, 
and  was  placed  on  engineering  duty.  He  was  in  the  Sem- 
inole Indian  War  of  1835-1836,  with  the  rank  of  captain. 
In  the  Mexican  War,  1847-1848 ;  bre vetted  major  for 
gallantry  at  Contreras  and  Chiu'ubusco,  August  20,  1847 ; 
brevetted  heutenant-colonel  for  gallantry  at  Chapultepec, 
September  13,  1847.  He  resigned  from  the  U.  S.  A.  in 
April,  1861 ;  entered  the  C.  S.  A.  and  was  commissioned  a 
brigadier-general.  He  died  while  in  command  of  the  coast 
defense  of  Georgia  and  Florida,  on  October  21,  1862,  at 
Tallahassee. 

He  married  in  Washington,  D.  C,  November  10,  1828, 
when  his  stepfather  was  Secretary  of  War,  Miss  CaroHne 
Searle,  daughter  of  Francis  Searle,  deceased,  of  England. 
Gen.  McComb,  then  commander-in-chief  of  the  U.  S.  A., 
acted  as  father  for  her  at  her  wedding,  and  Pres.  John 
Quincy  Adams  gave  the  young  couple  an  elegant  dinner 
and  reception  at  the  White  House.  They  had  an  only 
son  :  — 

i.  John  B.*'  Grayson,  Jr.,  b.  in  New  Orleans,  September 
9,  1835 ;  an  officer  in  the  C.  S.  A. ;  a  planter  near 
GainesAoUe,  Ala.  He  m.  Miss  C.  Fournier,  of  Ala- 
bama, and  has  several  children. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN      489 

372.  Peter  Augustus  ^  Porter,  born  July  14,  1827,  at 
Black  Rock,  N.  Y. ;  educated  at  Harvard  and  in  Germany ; 
married  (first),  March  30,  1852,  his  cousin,  Mary  Cabell^ 
Breckinridge  (393),  who  died  August  4,  1854,  at  Niagara 
Falls,  leaving  one  child  :  — 
373.  i.  Peter  Augustus^  Porter,  Jr. 

372.  Peter  A.^  Porter,  Sr.,  married  (second)  Josephine 
Morris,  of  New  York.  He  was  a  member  of  the  New  York 
legislature  in  1861 ;  commissioned  colonel  in  the  U.  S.  A., 
August  17,  1862,  and  was  killed  at  Cold  Harbor,  June  3, 
1864,  at  the  head  of  his  regiment,  the  129tli  New  York, 
leaving  by  his  second  marriage  two  children  :  — 

ii.  Elizabeth  Lewis  '^  Porter,  d.  young. 

iii.  George  M.^  Porter,  b.  July  7,  1863 ;  lives  in  Buffalo, 
N.  Y. 

373.  Peter  A.*^  Porter,  Jr.,  born  October  10,  1853 ;  mar- 
ried, in  1877,  Adele  Taylor.  They  reside  at  Niagara  Falls, 
N.  Y.,  and  have  three  children :  — 

i.  Peter  A.'^  Porter. 
ii.  Breckinridge^  Porter, 
iii.  Preston  BuelF  Porter. 


91.  Joseph  Cabell  '^  Breckinridge,  born  at  "  The  Glebe," 
Albemarle  County,  Va.,  July  24,  1788;  at  William  and 
Mary  College,  Va.,  in  1803  ;  graduated  at  Princeton,  1810 ; 
married  Miss  Mary  Clay  Smith,  May  11,  1811 ;  was  a 
major  in  the  War  of  1812 ;  became  a  leading  lawyer  of 
Kentucky  ;  served  two  terms  as  speaker  of  the  Kentucky 
House  of  Representatives,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death 
was  secretary  of  that  commonwealth.  "  He  was  celebrated 
for  his  unquestioned  integrity,  for  his  eloquence,  and  his 
influence  in  public  affairs."  He  was  for  many  years  a 
ruling  elder  of  the  Presbyterian  Church.  "  He  was  per- 
fectly erect  in  his  carriage,  without  stiffness,  exceedingly 
handsome,  five  feet  eleven  inches  tall,  and  as  faultless  in 
his  proportions  as  the  Grecian  Apollo."  He  died  at  Frank- 
fort,  Ky.,  September  1,   1823.     His    wife,  Mrs.  Mary  C. 


490  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

Breckinridge,  was  a  most  accomplished  lady,  daughter  of 
that  eminent  man,  Samuel  Stanhope  Smith,  President  of 
Princeton  College.  Her  mother  was  a  daughter  of  John 
Witherspoon,  one  of  the  signers,  who  traced  his  descent 
from  John  Knox.  Samuel  Stanhope  Smith  was  a  son  of 
Rev.  Robert  Smith,  born  in  Londonderry,  Ireland,  in  1723, 
emigrated  to  America,  and  became  pastor  of  Piqua,  Pa. 
His  wife  was  Miss  Blair. 

91.  Joseph  C*  Breckinridge  had  issue  six:  — 

374.  i.  Frances  Ann  ^  Breckinridge. 

375.  ii.  Caroline  Laurens^  Breckinridge. 

376.  iii.  Mary  CabelP  Breckinridge. 

377.  iv.  John  Cabell  ^  Breckinridge. 

378.  V.  Letitia  Porter^  Breckinridge,  b.  at  Frankfort,  Ky., 

October  26,  1822;  m.,  September  6,  1847, 
Charles  Copeland  Parkhill,  a  lawyer  of  Florida. 
He  d.  in  1850,  and  she  d.  at  "  Walnut  Hill," 
May  15,  1852,  s.  p. 
vi.  Mary  Ann  Cabell  ^  Breckinridge,  b.  February  15, 
1824 ;  d.  August  10,  1827. 

374.  Frances  Ann^  Breckinridge,  born  at  "Cabell's 
Dale,"  Ky.,  February  24,  1812 ;  married,  November  3, 
1829,  Rev.  John  Clark  Young.  He  was  born  August  12, 
1803,  at  Greencastle,  Pa. ;  educated  at  Dickinson  College, 
1823  ;  "  graduate  of  Princeton  ;"  pastor  of  a  church  in  Lex- 
ington, Ky. ;  President  of  Centre  College,  Ky.,  1830,  to  his 
death  in  1857;  author  of  "A  Plan  for  Emancijmtion," 
1835  ;  D.  D.,  College  of  New  Jersey,  1839 ;  Moderator  of 
the  General  Assembly  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  etc. 
He  died  June  23,  1857.  His  wife  died  November  2, 
1837,  leaving  four  daughters  :  — 

379.  i.  Mary  Breckinridge"^   Young,   b.   July  22,  1831; 

m.,  April  23,  1857,  Gelon  H.  Rout,  a  lawyer 
of  Lincoln  County,  Ky. ;  afterwards  a  Presby- 
terian minister  of  Versailles,  Ky.,  and  had  issue 
two  :    i.  John  Young '',  b.  July  19,    1858 ;  of 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     491 

Versailles,  Ky. ;  and  ii.  Cornelia  Crittenden 
Rout,  b.  October  15,  1859. 

380.  ii.  Caroline  Josephine  ^  Young,  b.  October  25,  1833 

m.,  April  23,  1857,  Rev.  Rutherford  Douglas 
a  Presbyterian  minister  of  Woodford  County 
now  of  Lexington,  Ky.,  and  had  issue  five :  i. 
John  C.  Young^  b.  1858;  d.  1868;  ii.  George 
L.^,  b.  August  26,  1859;  iii.  Rutherford,  b. 
February  7,  1869 ;  iv.  Francis  B.,  b.  November 
2,  1870 ;  and  v.  Drusilla  R.  Douglas,  b.  1872 ; 
d.  1894 ;  unmarried. 

381.  iii.  Jane  Elizabeth  Ramsay  ^  Young,  b.  June  18,  1835  ; 

m.,  December  16,  1858,  Rev.  E.  Rutherford,  a 
Presbyterian  minister  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  now  of 
Paris,  Ky.     No  issue. 

382.  iv.  Frances    Breckinridge*'    Young,    b.    October    25, 

1837;  m.,  November  19,  1859,  Addison  Craft, 
a  lawyer  of  Holly  Springs,  Miss. ;  captain  in 
C.  S.  A.  Issue  five  :  i.  John  C.  Young  ^,  b. 
1860;  d.  1878;  ii.  Elizabeth  BeUe,  b.  Octo- 
ber 27,  1861;  iii.  Gelon  Rout,  b.  April  8, 1867 ; 
iv.  Cornelia  C,  b.  February  7,  1870 ;  and  v. 
Jane  R.  Craft,  b.  October  9,  1871. 

375.  Caroline  Laurens^  Breckinridge,  born  October  12, 
1813,  at  "  Cabell's  Dale ; "  married,  October  31,  1832, 
Rev.  Joseph  J.  Bullock,  D.  D.,  born  December  23,  1812 ; 
graduate  of  Centre  College,  Ky.  ;  attended  law  lectures  at 
Transylvania  University  in  1833 ;  studied  theology  at 
Princeton,  1835-1836.  Licensed  to  preach  in  1836  by 
West  Lexington  Presbytery,  he  has  rendered  distinguished 
services  as  a  Presbyterian  minister  at  Frankfort,  Ky.,  Balti- 
more, Md.,  Alexandria,  Va.,  Washington,  D.  C,  etc.  He 
was  chaplain  of  the  United  States  Senate  in  1878-1883. 
His  father.  Waller  Bullock,  was  called  "  the  Wheel-horse 
of  the  Democracy  in  the  blue-grass  region  of  Kentucky." 

375.  Mrs.  Caroline  L.  B.^  Bullock  died  November  4, 
1867,  having  had  issue  eight :  — 


492  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR   KIN 

383.  i.    Waller  Robert '  Bullock,  b.  June  7,  1834  ;  grad- 

uate of  Centre  College,  Ky. ;  attorney  at  law  ; 
captain  in  C.  S.  A.,  etc.  ;  m.,  February  3,  1870, 
Caroline  Canfield,  in  Baltimore,  Md.,  and  d.  in 
that  city,  November  11,  1870.  Issue  one  :  i. 
Waller  Irene '  Bullock,  b.  April  17,  1871. 
ii.  Mary  Stanhope  '^  Bullock,  b.  September  6,  1837. 

384.  iii.  Cabell  Breckinridge*^   BuUock,  b.  April  6,  1840; 

graduate  of  Centre  College,  Ky. ;  attorney  at 
law,  Lexington,  Ky. ;  assistant  commissioner  of 
insurance  for  Kentucky. 

iv.  Frances  Breckinridge  ^  Bullock,  b.  1841 ;  d.  1842. 
V.  Joseph  James  *^  Bullock,  b.  June  3,  1843. 

vi.   Letitia  Parkhill  Bullock,  b.  August  7,  1846. 

385.  vii.  John    Milton    Bullock,    b.    June    23,    1848;    m. 

(first),  June  6,  1872,  Mary  Fitch.  She  died 
September  27,  1873.  Issue  :  i.  Mary  Brogden 
Fitch  ^  Bullock  ;  d.  infant.  He  is  now  a  resi- 
dent of  Kansas  City,  Mo. ;  m.  (second),  June 
22,  1876,  Mary  McReynolds.  She  d.  October 
12,  1877,  leaving  one  child  :  ii.  Cabell  Breck- 
inridge •  Bullock,  b.  March  3,  1877. 
viii.  Sarah  Graham^  Bullock,  b.  1851;  d.  infant. 

376.  Mary  Cabell  ^  Breckinridge,  born  at  Lexington, 
Ky.,  January  7,  1815 ;  married,  June  6,  1832,  Dr.  Thomas 
P.  Satterwhite,  of  Lexington,  Ky.  He  died  about  1842. 
She  died  August  13,  1835.     Issue  two  :  — 

386.  i.  Mary  Smith    Satterwhite,    b.    at    Lexington,   Ky., 

June  5,  1833 ;  m.,  June  8,  1854,  Dr.  William 
H.  Miller,  of  Louisville,  afterwards  of  Hender- 
son, Ky.  She  d.  September  11,  1861.  Issue 
four :  i.  Clara  Robinson  ^ ;  d.  infant ;  ii.  Mary 
Breckinridge  ;  d.  infant ;  iii.  Henrietta  Satter- 
white, b.  December  21,  1858;  and  iv.  WiUiam 
Henry  Miller  ;  d.  infant. 

387.  ii.  Thomas  Palmer  '^  Satterwhite,  b.  at  Lexington,  Ky., 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  493 

July  21,  1835  ;  a  physician ;  m.,  January  14, 
1858,  his  relative,  Maria  P.  Rogers,  daughter  of 
Capt.  Jason  Rogers,  U.  S.  A.,  and  Josephine 
Preston,  whose  sister,  Henrietta  Preston,  m.  Gen. 
Albert  Sidney  Johnston,  C.  S.  A.  They  reside 
corner  Preston  and  Gray  Streets,  Louisville,  Ky. 
Issue  eight :  i.  Josephine  Preston  ^,  b.  December 
7,  1858 ;  ii.  Lilly  R.,  b.  March  13,  1861 ;  iii. 
Thomas  P.,  b.  June  7,  1862 ;  iv.  Jason  R.,  b. 
March  13,  1864 ;  v.  Preston,  b.  September  28, 
1867;  vi.  Caroline  H.,  b.  July  29^  1870;  vii. 
Cabell  B.,  b.  June  1,  1874 ;  and  viii.  Susan  B. 
Sattey^white,  b.  April  6,  1879. 

377.  John  Cabell  ^  Breckinridge,  born  at  Lexington,  Ky., 
January  16,  1821 ;  graduated  at  Centre  College,  Ky. ; 
studied  law  ;  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Lexington,  Ky.,  "  and 
from  thence,  whilst  still  a  mere  youth,  he  went  out  to  the 
active  duties  of  life,  first  going  to  Burlington,  Iowa,  but 
soon  returning  to  his  native  city,  where  his  great  talent 
as  a  public  speaker  soon  gave  him  a  high  position  in  his 
profession."  He  married  Mary  Cirene  Birch,  of  Scott 
County,  Ky.,  December  12,  1843.  He  served  in  the 
Mexican  War  as  major  of  a  Kentucky  volunteer  regiment, 
under  Gen.  Scott,  with  credit,  and  distinguished  himself  as 
the  counsel  of  Gen.  Pillow  during  the  famous  court-martial. 
*^  He  fought  heroically  at  Buena  Vista,  and  was  selected  by 
the  voice  of  Kentucky  to  deliver  the  funeral  oration  at 
Frankfort  appointed  by  the  legislature  in  honor  of  his 
countrymen  who  fell  on  that  field  of  glory." 

He  was  a  Democrat  in  politics,  and  first  entered  political 
life  in  1849,  when  he  was  elected  a  representative  of  his 
native  county  in  the  Kentucky  legislature.  In  1851,  he 
defeated  Gen.  Leslie  Combs  for  the  United  States  House  of 
Representatives  in  the  Ashland  Congressional  District. 
This  was  Henry  Clay's  district,  and  at  Mr.  Clay's  death  it 
devolved  upon  him  to  announce  the  fact  to  the  House  of 


494  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

Representatives,  which  he  did,  on  June  30,  1852,  with  a 
eulogy  on  the  deceased  which  has  rarely  been  equaled  in 
matter  or  manner.  In  1853,  he  defeated  ex-Gov.  Letcher 
for  the  same  office  in  the  same  district.  In  the  Democratic 
National  Convention  at  Cincinnati  in  1856,  he  was  unani- 
mously nominated  for  the  Vice-Presidency  of  the  United 
States ;  was  elected  in  November  following,  and  was  Vice- 
President  from  March  4,  1857,  to  March  1,  1861,  —  at  an 
earlier  age,  I  believe,  than  any  of  his  predecessors.  In  the 
Baltimore  Convention  of  1860,  "  he  was,  without  his  consent 
and  contrary  to  his  wishes,"  unanimously  nominated  as  their 
candidate  for  the  Presidency  by  the  States-Rights  Demo- 
crats. At  the  election  in  November,  he  was  defeated, 
but  he  received,  under  the  circumstances,  a  very  large  vote. 
Kentucky  elected  him  as  one  of  her  Senators  to  the 
United  States  Congress,  and  he  took  his  seat  as  such  on 
March  4,  1861.  After  doing  what  he  deemed  it  to  be  his 
duty  to  do  in  the  Senate,  in  September  he  was  constrained 
to  resign,  and  on  October  8  he  issued  an  address  to  the 
citizens  of  Kentucky,  rendering  an  account  of  his  steward- 
ship. He  tendered  his  services  to  the  Southern  Con- 
federacy, and  was  promptly  appointed  a  brigadier-general 
by  President  Davis.  On  December  4,  1861,  the  United 
States  Senate  went  through  the  form  of  expelHng  him. 
On  August  5,  1862,  for  gallant  and  efficient  military  ser- 
Yices,  he  was  promoted  to  major-general  in  the  C.  S.  A. 
He  fought  at  Shiloh,  Corinth,  Vicksburg,  Chickamauga, 
Missionary  Ridge,  and  other  memorable  engagements  in 
the  South  and  West,  and  at  New  Market,  Cold  Harbor, 
Monocacy,  and  other  famous  battles  in  the  East.  He  was 
Secretary  of  War  of  the  Confederacy  from  February  5  to 
April  26,  1865.  After  the  surrender  of  Lee,  he  was  with 
Gen.  Joseph  E.  Johnston  in  North  Carolina ;  joined  Presi- 
dent Davis,  his  cabinet  and  escort,  in  their  flight,  and  was 
for  a  time  in  command  of  the  last  hope  of  the  Confederacy. 
With  his  son  CabeU  and  two  companions,  he  escaped  in  an 
open  boat  from  the  coast  of  Florida,  and   in    eight  days 


GENERAL  JOHN   CABELL  BRECKINRIDGE,   C.  S.  A. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  495 

landed  upon  the  coast  of  Cuba.  He  remained  in  foreign 
lands  until  the  fall  of  1868,  when  he  returned  home,  where 
he  quietly  practiced  his  profession  until  the  end  of  his 
days.     He  died  at  Lexington,  Ky.,  May  17,  1875. 

He  had  great  social  tact,  very  fascinating  manners,  and 
almost  unequaled  conversational  powers.  A  person  un- 
usually imposing,  a  countenance  remarkably  expressive 
and  handsome,  a  voice  strong,  clear,  and  sweet,  were  some 
of  the  natural  auxiliaries  to  his  \Vonderful  oratory.  His 
achievements  as  lawyer,  politician,  and  warrior,  between 
his  21st  and  44th  year,  have  seldom  been  equaled. 

377.  Hon.  John  Cabell  ^  and  Mary  C.  Breckinridge  had 
issue  six :  — 

388.  i.  Joseph  Cabell*^  Breckinridge. 

389.  ii.  Clifton  Bodes  ^  Breckinridge. 

390.  iii.  Frances^  Breckinridge,  b.  June  21,  1848,  at  Lex- 

ington, Ky. ;  m.,  in  1879,  John  Andrew  Steele, 
of  Midway,  Ky. 
iv.  John  Cabell  Breckinridge ;  d.  infant. 

391.  V.  John    Witherspoon    Owen^    Breckinridge,  b.    in 

December,  1850,  at  Lexington,  Ky. ;  at  Wash- 
ington and  Lee  University,  1869-1870 ;  m. 
Louise  Tevis,  daughter  of  Lloyd  Tevis,  of  San 
Francisco,  Cal. ;  was  pursuing  a  successful  career 
as  a  lawyer  and  member  of  the  state  senate  of 
California,  when  he  died.  May  9,  1892,  at  his 
home  in  Mercer  County,  Cal.,  leaving  several 
children. 

392.  vi.  Mary  Desha  ^  Breckinridge,  b.  in  February,  1853, 

in   Lexington,  Ky. ;  m.   Anson   Maltby,  of  48 
Wall  Street,  N.  Y. 
388.  Joseph  Cabell*^  Breckinridge,  born    December  29, 
1844,  at  Georgetown,  Ky. ;   major  in  C.  S.  A. ;   married, 
December  1,  1869,   Sallie   F.  Johnson,  daughter  of  Hon. 
R.  W.  Johnson,  of  Arkansas,  and  has  had  issue  :  — ■ 
i.  John  Cabell^  Breckinridge. 
ii.  Laura  Breckinridge,  m.  Mr.  Ten  Eyck,  of  New  York. 


496  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

iii.  Robert  Johnson  Breckinridge. 
iv.  Ben  Johnson  Breckinridge. 

389.  Clifton  Rodes*'  Breckinridge,  of  Pine  Bluff,  Ark., 
born  November  22,  1846,  at  Lexington,  Ky. ;  private 
soldier  C.  S.  A. ;  midshipman  C.  S.  N.  at  end  of  the  war ; 
after  the  war  a  clerk  in  a  commercial  house  for  two  years  ; 
at  Washington  College  (now  Washington  and  Lee  Univer- 
sity), 1867-1870 ;  cotton  planter  and  commission  merchant 
in  Arkansas,  1870-1883 ;  alderman  of  Pine  Bluff  City  one 
terai ;  an  associate  trustee  of  the  Washington  and  Lee 
University,  Va.,  since  1883  ;  member  of  the  United  States 
House  of  Representatives  from  Arkansas,  March  4,  1883, 
to  March  4,  1895 ;  appointed  United  States  minister  to 
Russia  in  July,  1894,  which  office  he  is  now  filling.  He 
married,  November  21,  1876,  at  Memphis,  Tenn.,  Katherine 
Breckinridge  Carson,  daughter  of  Dr.  James  Green  Carson 
(deceased),  of  Carroll  Parish,  La.,  and  his  wdfe  Katherine, 
daughter  of  William  S.  Waller,  of  Frankfort,  Ky.,  youngest 
son  of  Rev.  William  Edmund  Waller,  a  Baptist  minister, 
who  went  from  Virginia  to  Kentucky  in  1783,  a  son  of 
Edmund  Waller  (eldest  brother  of  Col.  William  WaUer, 
of  WiUiamsbm-g,  Va.),  the  second  clerk  of  Spottsylvania 
County,  April  6,  1742,  to  October  1,  1751  (by  his  wife, 
Mary  Pendleton,  wdiom  he  married  in  1740),  son  of  Col. 
John  Waller,  of  "  Newport  "  (the  fu*st  clerk  of  Spottsyl- 
vania, August  7,  1722,  to  April  6,  1722  ;  member  of  the 
vestry  of  St.  George's  Parish ;  member  of  the  House  of 
Bui'gesses,  etc.  ;  died  in  1754),  son  of  Col.  John  Waller, 
who  emigrated  to  Vu-ginia  about  1665  (said  to  be  of  the 
same  family  as  Edmund  Waller  the  poet),  and  died  about 
1720.  I  am  incHned  to  think  that  he  was  the  son  of  the 
poet  by  his  second  wife,  "  Maria  ex  Bressyorum,"  "  of 
whom,"  we  are  told  in  the  English  record  of  the  family, 
"no  account  has  descended." 

389.  Hon.  Clifton  R.^  and  Katherine  Breckinridge  have 
had  issue  three  :  — 
i.  James  Carson  ^  Breckinridge. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  497 

ii.  Mary  Carson  Breckinridge. 
iii.  Susanna  Lees  Breckinridge. 


92.  Mary  Anne  *  Breckinridge,  born  in  1795 ;  married 
David  Castleman,  and  had  issue  :  — 

i.  Mary  Anne  ^  Castleman,  "  who  d.   in   infancy,  and  her 
mother  soon  after." 


93.  John*  Breckinridge,  born  at  Cabell's  Dale,"  on 
North  Elkhorn,  July  4,  1797.  His  father  died  when  he 
was  nine  years  old,  and  from  that  time  he  was  reared 
under  the  care  of  his  widowed  mother  and  elder  brother, 
Cabell,  who  at  eighteen  had  become  the  head  of  the  fam- 
ily. He  graduated  at  Princeton  College  in  1818 ;  studied 
divinity  at  Princeton  Theological  Seminary,  1819—1821 ; 
was  hcensed  to  preach  in  1822  ;  chaplain  of  the  United 
States  House  of  Representatives,  1822-1823  ;  pastor  of  the 
McChord  Chm-ch,  Lexington,  Ky.,  1823-1826 ;  of  the  Sec- 
ond Presbyterian  Church,  Baltimore,  Md.,  1826-1831 ; 
secretary  and  general  agent  of  the  board  of  education  of 
the  Presbyterian  Church,  with  headquarters  in  Philadel- 
phia, 1831-1836 ;  professor  in  the  Theological  Seminary  at 
Princeton,  N.  J.,  1836-1838 ;  his  discussion  with  Bishop 
Hughes  (Romanist)  was  pubHshed  with  the  title,  "  Roman 
CathoHc  Controversy,"  in  1836.  "  Upon  the  organization 
of  the  board  of  foreign  missions  by  the  Presbyterian 
Church,  he  was  elected  its  secretary  and  general  agent, 
and  continued  at  the  head  of  the  operations  of  that  board 
from  about  1838  to  1840."  At  the  time  of  his  death,  he 
was  president-elect  of  the  Oglethorpe  University,  Ga.  He 
died  at  "  Cabell's  Dale,"  Ky.,  August  4, 1841.  He  was  an 
eloquent  preacher,  an  able  controversiahst  and  polemic 
writer,  a  man  of  extraordinary  talent.  He  died  in  the  hey- 
day of  his  usefulness. 

Rev.  Dr.  E.  P.  Humphrey,  in  his  address,  dehvered  in 
1876,  said  of  him :  "  John  Breckinridge  became  a  believer 
in  Christ  in  early  life,  and  was  the  first   member   of  his 


498  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

family  to  make  a  profession  of  religion.  Through  him 
the  gospel  found  access  to  the  household.  From  him  the 
grace  of  God  extended  in  due  time  to  the  mother,  and  to 
every  brother  and  sister,  and  to  many  of  the  servants.  He 
became  one  of  the  most  attractive  and  powerfid  preachers 
in  the  Presbyterian  Church,  and  one  of  her  most  faithful 
and  honored  sons." 

He  married  (first),  in  January,  1823,  Margaret,  daughter 
of  Rev.  Samuel  Miller,  D.  D.,  professor  of  ecclesiastical  his- 
tory in  Princeton  Theological   Seminary.     She  was  born 
September  29,  1802  ;  died  July  16,  1838.     Issue  :  — 
i.  Elizabeth  Miller^  Breckinridge,  d.  young. 

393.  ii.  Mary  Cabell  ^  Breckinridge. 

394.  iii.  Samuel  Miller  ^  Breckinridge. 

iv.  Margaret  EHzabeth^  Breckinridge   (1832-1864), 
d.  unmarried. 

V.  John  Joseph^  Breckinridge,  d.  infant. 

vi.  Margaret^  Breckinridge,  d.  infant. 
93.  Rev.  John'*  Breckinridge,  D.  D.,  married   (second), 

September  2,  1840,  a  daughter  of  Col.  Babcock,  of 

Stonington,  Conn.,  who,  with  one  child,  survived  him :  — 
vii.  Agatha  Marshall  ^  Breckinridge,  b.  July  13,  1841 ;  d., 

unmarried,  at  Saybrook,   Conn.,  where  her   mother 

lived  after  the  death  of  Dr.  John  Breckinridge. 

393.  Mary  CabeU  ^  Breckinridge,  born  October  12,  1826; 
married  her  cousin,  Peter  A.  Porter  (372),  March  30, 
1852,  and  died  August  4,  1854. 

394.  Samuel  Miller^  Breckinridge,  born  in  Baltimore, 
November  3,  1828 ;  educated  at  Centre  College,  Ky., 
Princeton,  N.  J.,  and  Union  College,  N.  Y. ;  graduated  in 
the  law  school  of  Transylvania  College,  and  soon  moved 
to  St.  Louis,  where  he  began  the  practice  of  law.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Missouri  legislature  in  1854  and  1855  ;  a 
judge  of  the  circuit  court  in  1859.  After  serving  one 
term  he  resumed  his  law  practice,  and  so  continued  up  to 


REV    JOHN    BRECKINRIDGE,   D.  D. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  499 

his  death.  "  He  was  a  close  friend  of  President  Lincoln, 
and  a  strong  Republican."  He  was  an  elder  in  the  Presby- 
terian Church,  and  a  leading  member  in  its  General  Assem- 
blies. His  death,  on  the  floor  of  the  General  Presbyterian 
Assembly,  at  Detroit,  on  May  28,  1891,  of  apoplexy,  was 
one  of  the  most  tragic  scenes  ever  beheld.  In  the  debate, 
he  had  just  made  a  speech  against  Rev.  Dr.  Briggs ;  the 
excitement  in  the  body  was  intense ;  he  said  :  "  Now,  gen- 
tlemen, I  feel  that  I  have  discharged  my  duty,  and  wish  to 
be  excused  from  further  speaking."  Then  reaching  for  a 
glass  of  water,  he  threw  up  his  hands  and  fell  dead. 

Judge  Breckinridge  was  one  of  the  most  distinguished 
lawyers  in  this  country,  and  his  law  practice  was  tremen- 
dous. He  married,  October  8,  1850,  his  cousin,  Virginia 
H.^  Castleman  (435).  She  was  born  Jidy  4,  1827,  and  is 
now  hving  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.     Issue  eight :  — 

395.  i.  Margaret  Miller'^  Breckinridge,  b.  June  22, 1851 ; 

m.  William  S.  Long,  and  has :  i.  Margaret 
M.^ ;  and  ii.  Samuel  M.  B."^  Long. 

396.  ii.   Virginia  Castleman*^  Breckinridge,  b.  December 

15,  1853;  m.,  June  23,  1892,  Onward  Bates, 
a  civil  engineer,  of  Chicago,  111.,  son  of  Judge 
Barton  Bates,  of  St.  Louis,  son  of  Hon.  Ed- 
ward Bates  (attorney-general),  son  of  Thomas 
Fleming  Bates  (and  his  wife,  Caroline  Matilda 
Woodson,  granddaughter  of  Tarleton  Wood- 
son and  Ursula  Fleming),  grandson  of  John 
Bates  and  his  wife,  Susanna  (sister  to  Ursula 
and  daughter  of  Col.  Charles)  Fleming. 

397.  iii.  Mary  Cabell  Porter  ^  Breckinridge,  b.  December 

30,  1855 ;  m.  Richard  K.  Cross,  attorney  at 
law,  of  Baltimore,  Md.,  and  has :  i.  Virginia 
B.^ ;  and  ii.  Elizabeth  B.*^  Cross. 

398.  iv.  John  ^  Breckinridge,  b.  June  1,  1858 ;  educated 

at  West  Point,  but  resigned  from  the  army. 
"  He  is  married,  lives  in  Huntsville,  Mo.,  and 
has  had  seven  children." 


500  THE   CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

399.      V.  David  Castleman  ^  Breckinridge,  b.  June  7, 1860  ; 
educated  at  Princeton  College,  N.  J. ;  attorney 
at  law ;  now  in  business  in  New  York. 
vi.  Almy  Hicks  ^  Breckinridge,  b.  April  6,  1862. 
vii.  Samuel  Miller  Breckinridge,  b.  1866 ;  d.  infant. 
viii.  Elizabeth  L.   P.  Breckinridge,  b.   September  2, 
1868. 


94.  Robert  Jefferson  *  Breckinridge,  born  at  "  Cabell's 
Dale,"  Ky.,  March  8,  1800;  studied  successively  at  Prince- 
ton, Yale,  and  Union  colleges,  graduating  at  the  last  in  1819. 
He  then  fitted  himself  for  the  Bar,  and  practiced  law  in  Ken- 
tucky from  1823  to  1831 ;  member  of  the  state  legislature, 
1825-1828 ;  studied  for  the  ministry,  1831 ;  Kcensed  as  a 
minister  in  1832,  he  became  pastor  of  the  Second  Presby- 
terian Chui'ch  in  Baltunore,  and  continued  there  until 
1845.  He  was  made  a  D.  D.  by  Union  College  in  1839  ; 
and,  the  same  year,  pubhshed  at  Philadelphia,  "  Travels  in 
France,  Germany,"  etc.  He  fell  heir  to  the  discussion  with 
the  Papists  begun  by  his  brother  John.  He  edited  "  The 
Literary  and  ReHgious  Magazine  "  and  the  "  Spiiit  of  the 
Nineteenth  Century."  In  1841,  he  pubhshed  "  Papism  in 
the  Nineteenth  Century  m  the  United  States,"  and,  in 
1845,  "  Memoranda  of  Foreign  Travels." 

He  was  president  of  Jefferson  College,  Pa.,  1845-1847. 
The  college  conferred  upon  him  the  degree  of  LL.  D.  in 
1847.  He  was  pastor  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Chiu'ch, 
Lexington,  Ky.,  and  superintendent  of  public  instruction 
for  the  State  from  1847  to  1853.  "  He  is  the  principal 
author  of  the  common-school  system  of  Kentucky."  "  In 
the  anti-slavery  discussions  he  opposed  the  extremists  of 
either  side."  In  1853,  he  was  elected  professor  of  theology 
in  the  newly  estabhshed  seminary  at  DauAdlle,  Ky.,  and 
continued  m  this  position  to  his  death. 

He  pubhshed  "Internal  Evidence  of  Christianity,"  in 
1852;  "The  Knowledge  of  God  Objectively  Considered," 
in  1857;  "The  Knowledge  of  God   Subjectively  Consid- 


JUDGE  SAMUEL  MILLER  BRECKINRIDGE 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     601 

ered,"  in  1859,  etc.  "  He  was  one  of  the  most  voliuninous 
writers  of  America."  During  the  war  between  the  States 
he  took  sides  with  the  North.  He  died  at  Danville,  Ky., 
December  27,  1871,  "  the  Napoleon  of  his  church,"  noted 
for  his  eloquence,  eminent  for  his  learning  and  ability.  Dr. 
Humphrey  said  of  him  :  — 

"  Few  men  in  our  day  were  so  richly  endowed.  Few 
men  made  a  mark  so  deep  and  permanent  on  the  reHgious 
history  of  his  time.  He  was  distinguished  as  a  thinker,  a 
preacher,  a  debater,  and  leader  in  all  the  assembhes,  and  in 
all  the  emergencies  of  his  church." 

He  mari-ied  (first),  March  11,  1823,  Ann  Sophonisba, 
daughter  of  Gen,  Francis  Preston,  of  Abington,  Va.,  by  his 
wife,  Sarah  B.  Campbell,  daughter  of  Gen.  William  Camp- 
bell and  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Henry,  sister  to  Patrick  Henry 
the  orator.  Gen.  Francis  Preston  was  the  son  of  William 
Preston  (1730-1783)  and  his  wife,  Susanna,  daughter  of 
Francis  and  Elizabeth  Waddy  Smith,  of  Hanover  County, 
Va.  (See  "  Memoranda  of  the  Preston  Family,"  by  John 
Mason  Brown.)  Mrs.  Ann  Sophonisba  P.  Breckinridge  died 
December  21,  1844,  having  had  issue  :  — 

i.  Francis  Preston^  Breckinridge,  d.  infant, 
ii.  Louisiana  Hart  ^  Breckinridge,  d.  infant. 

400.  iii.  Mary  Cabell  '^  Breckinridge, 
iv.  John^  Breckinridge,  d.  infant. 

401.  V.  Sarah  Campbell^  Breckinridge. 

402.  vi.  Robert  J.^  Breckinridge. 

403.  vii.  Marie  Lattice  Preston^  Breckinridge. 

404.  viii.  William  Campbell  Preston  ^  Breckinridge. 

405.  ix.  Sophonisba  Preston  ^  Breckinridge. 

406.  X.  Joseph  Cabell^  Breckinridge. 

xi.  Charles   Henry  ^  Breckinridge,  b.  September  9, 
1844 ;  graduated  at  West  Point ;  died  a  cap- 
tain in  U.  S.  A.,  August  27, 1867  ;  unmarried. 
94.  Rev.  Robert  J.^  Breckinridge  married  (second),  April 
1,  1847,  Mrs.  Virginia  Shelby  (first  cousin  to  his  first  wife), 
widow  of  Alfred,  son  of  Gov.  Isaac  Shelby,  and  daughter 


502  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

of  Nathaniel  Hart  (by  his  wife,  Susanna  Preston,  sister  to 
Gen.  Francis  Preston),  son  of  Col.  Nathaniel  Hart,  Sr.,  the 
Kentucky  pioneer,  who  was  born  in  Hanover  County,  Va., 
in  1734.     She  died,  ha\dng  had  :  — 
xii.  Virginia  Hart^  Breckinridge,  d.  young. 
xiii.  Nathaniel  Hart "  Breckinridge,  d.  infant, 
xiv.  John  Robert^  Breckinridge,  b.  September  25,  1850; 

graduated  at  Princeton,  1869 ;  was  murdered  April 

9,  1874  ;   never  married. 
94.  Rev.  Robert  J.^  Breckinridge  married  (third),  Novem- 
ber 5, 1868,  Mrs.  Margaret  (Faulkner)  White.     There  were 
no  childi'en  of  this  marriage. 

400.  Mary  Cabell^  Breckinridge,  born  at  "Cabell's 
Dale,"  near  Lexington,  Ky.,  April  6,  1828 ;  married,  De- 
cember 21,  1848,  William  Warfield,  Esq.,  of  Grasmere, 
near  Lexington,  Ky.,  who  was  born  at  "  Grasmere,"  May 
30,  1827 ;  graduated  at  Kentucky  University,  1846 ;  com- 
missioned a  captain  in  the  Union  Army  by  Pres.  Lincoln, 
1861 ;  a  commissioner  to  the  Centennial  Exposition,  1876 ; 
studied  medicine,  but  has  been  engaged  in  the  breeding  of 
thoroughbred  cattle  since  1848.  Author  of  a  "  History  of 
Short  Horn  Cattle  in  America,"  1884  ;  "  The  Theory  and 
Practice  of  Cattle  Breeding,"  1888 ;  and  many  fugitive 
pamphlets  and  articles.  He  was  the  son  of  Benjamin  War- 
field,  —  born  February  5,  1790  (by  his  wife,  Sarah  Caldwell, 
daughter  of  William  Caldwell,  who  emigrated  from  the  North 
of  Ireland,  served  in  the  Revolution,  and  received  a  wound 
at  Brandywine),  who  served  in  the  War  of  1812  as  captain 
in  Col.  R.  M.  Johnson's  regiment ;  represented  Harrison 
County,  Ky.,  1820-1822 ;  practiced  law  in  partnership  with 
Robert  Wicliffe,  at  Lexington,  Ky.,  1824-1831;  won  a 
great  name  as  improver  of  fine  stock ;  died  October  27, 
1856,  —  son  of  Elisha  Warfield  (by  his  second  wife,  Ruth 
Burgess),  born  in  Maryland,  November  29, 1741 ;  emigrated 
to  Kentucky  in  1790  ;  settled  near  Bryon's  station,  and  died 
there  July  16, 1818 ;  son  of  Benjamin  Warfield  (by  his  first 


REV.  ROBERT  JEFFERSON  BRECKINRIDGE,  D.  D  ,  LL 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  503 

wife,  Rebecca  Ridgeley,  daughter  of  Hon.  Nicholas  Ridge- 
ley,  judge  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Delaware,  and  his  wife, 
Sarah,  daughter  of  Col.  John  Worthington),  grandson  of 
Richard  Warfield,  who  emigrated  from  Wales  or  the  Welsh 
border  of  Shropshire  into  Maryland  about  1637,  and  settled 
in  Anne  Arundel  County,  where  he  died  in  1703. 
400.  Mrs.  Mary  Cabell  ^  Warfield  had  issue  four  :  — 
i.  Sophonisba  Preston '  Warfield,  b.  1849 ;  d.  1866. 

407.  ii.  Benjamin  Breckinridge  ^  Warfield. 

iii.  Sarah    Caldwell «   Warfield,    b.    1853;   d.    1853. 

408.  iv.  Ethelbert  Dudley' Warfield. 

407.  Benjamin  Breckinridge '  Warfield,  born  November 
5,  1851 ;  graduated  at  Princeton  College,  1871,  with  the 
highest  honors  of  his  class ;  studied  in  Edinburgh,  Ger- 
many, and  France,  1872-1873  ;  graduated  from  Princeton 
Theological  Seminary,  1876  ;  studied  at  University  of  Leip- 
sic,  1876-1877 ;  stated  supply.  First  Presbyterian  Church 
of  Baltimore,  Md.,  1877-1878  ;  instructor  in  New  Testa- 
ment literature  and  exegesis.  Western  Theological  Seminary, 
at  Allegheny,  Pa.,  1878 ;  professor  there,  1879-1887  ;  dele- 
gate to  Pan-Presbyterian  Council,  Belfast,  1884 ;  professor 
of  didactic  and  polemic  theology,  Princeton  Theological 
Seminary,  1887  to  the  present  time  ;  editor  of  the  "  Presby- 
terian Review,"  1888-1889  ;  editor  of  the  "  Presbyterian 
and  Reformed  Re\dew,"  1890  to  the  present  time  ;  author 
of  "  Textual  Criticism  of  the  New  Testament,"  and  niuner- 
ous  pamphlets ;  D.  D.,  1878  ;  LL.  D.,  1892  (College  of  New 
Jersey) ;  and  LL.  D.,  1892  (Davidson  College,  N.  C.) ;  mar- 
ried, August  3, 1876,  Annie  Pearce  Kinkead,  of  Lexington, 
Ky.  She  is  the  daughter  of  George  Blackburn  Kinkead 
(by  his  wife,  Eliza  Pearce),  son  of  John  Kinkead  (by  his 
wife,  Margaret  Blackburn),  son  of  Capt.  William  Kinkead 
(born  probably  in  Pennsylvania,  in  1736 ;  removed  to 
Augusta  County,  Va. ;  served  in  the  Revolution  ;  moved  to 
Kentucky  in  1789)  by  his  wife,  Eleanor  Guy,  who  was  cap- 
tured by  the  Indians  in  Augusta  County,  Va.,  in  the  spring 
of  1764,  and  recaptured  in  1778.^ 

1  See  Col.  Bouquefs  Expeditwn^  p.  79. 


504  THE   CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

Eliza  Pearce  (wife  of  George  Blackburn  Kinkead)  was  a 
daughter  of  James  Pearce  and  his  wife,  Anne  Clark, 
daughter  of  General  Jonathan  Clark  (brother  of  Gen. 
George  Rogers  Clark  and  Gov.  William  Clark),  born  in 
Albemarle  County,  Va.,  August  12,  1750 ;  died  in  Jeffer- 
son County,  Ky.,  November  25,  1811  (by  his  wife,  Sarah 
Hite,  born  in  Frederick  County,  Va.,  May  11,  1758 ;  mar- 
ried in  Vu-ginia,  February  13,  1782 ;  died  in  Kentucky  in 
1818) ;  son  of  John  Clark,  born  in  King  and  Queen 
County,  Va.,  October  20,  1725;  married,  in  1749,  his 
cousin,  Ann  Rogers  (born  in  King  and  Queen  County,  Va., 
October  31,  1734  ;  died  at  "  Mulberry  Hill,"  Ky.,  Decem- 
ber 24,  1798,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary  Bird  Rogers, 
of  Virginia) ;  settled  on  lands  given  him  by  his  father  in 
Albemarle ;  deed  of  partition  of  820  acres  between  his  bro- 
ther Ben  and  himself,  August  13,  1752 ;  his  410  acres  lay 
about  two  miles  northeast  of  Charlottesville,  along  the 
Rivanna,  and  on  this  tract  in  November,  1752,  his  son, 
George  Rogers  Clark,  "  the  Hannibal  of  the  West,"  was 
born ;  he  removed  to  Caroline  County,  possibly  before 
1757 ;  sold  his  Albemarle  land  to  WiUiam  Tandy  in  1760 ; 
removed  to  Kentucky  after  the  Revolution.  His  old  log- 
house,  built  in  1784,  was  standing  in  1887.  He  died  at 
his  residence.  Mulberry  Hill,  Jefferson  County,  Ky.,  July 
30,  1799.  He  was  a  son  of  Jonathan  Clark,  of  King  and 
Queen  County,  Va.,  who  was  among  the  first  of  the  stream 
of  emio-rants  coming  down  the  east  side  of  the  mountains 
to  acquire  lands  in  the  present  county  of  Albemarle.  On 
May  25,  1734,  Jonathan  Clark,  Thomas  Graves,  Edwin 
Hickman,  and  his  son-in-law,  Joseph  Smith,  received  a  grant 
for  3277  acres  of  land  along  the  Rivanna,  extending,  I  be- 
lieve, from  the  present  "  Monticello  "  mountains  uj)  to  the 
forks  of  the  river.  Col.  Peter  Jefferson  afterwards  pur- 
chased a  portion  of  this  grant.  Jonathan  Clark,  by  his  will 
dated  April  9,  1734,  left  his  portion  (820  acres)  to  his  sons 
John  and  Benjamm  aforesaid.  He  died,  I  beHeve,  soon 
after  the  date  of  his  will.     His  widow,  Elizabeth  Lumpkin, 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  505 

married  (second)  Mr.  Richards.  Was  she  the  mother  of 
EHzabeth  Richards,  who  married  Richard  Todd  (parents 
of  Judge  Thomas  Todd,  of  Kentucky),  and  of  Catharine 
Richards,  who  married  Rev.  Robert  Innes,  the  parents  of 
Judge  Hary  Innes,  of  Kentucky  ?  Edwin  Hickman  (died 
in  1769)  was  the  grandfather  of  Gen.  Richard  Hickman, 
of  Kentucky. 

408.  Ethelbert  Dudley '  Warfield,  born  March  16, 1861 ; 
graduated  at  Princeton  College,  1882  ;  studied  at  Wadham 
College,  Oxford,  England,  1882-1883,  and  in  Germany 
during  the  summer  of  1883  ;  graduated  at  Columbia  Col- 
lege Law  School  (New  York),  1885  ;  admitted  to  the  Bar, 
June  16,  1884 ;  practiced  law  in  New  York  and  in  Lexing- 
ton, Ky.  ;  candidate  for  elector  at  large  from  Kentucky, 
Republican  ticket,  1888  ;  president  and  professor  of  his- 
tory, Miami  University,  Oxford,  Ohio,  1888—1891 ;  presi- 
dent and  professor  of  political  science,  Lafayette  College, 
Easton,  Pa.,  1891  to  the  present  time  ;  author  of  "  Ken- 
tucky Resolutions  of  1798  :  an  Historical  Monograph," 
1887,  and  various  pamphlets  and  fugitive  articles  ;  director 
of  Princeton  Theological  Seminary ;  member  of  Phi  Beta 
Kappa,  American  Historical,  and  other  learned  societies  ; 
LL.  D.  (College  of  New  Jersey  and  Miami  University), 
1891 ;  married  (first),  January  28,  1866,  Sarah  Lacey 
Brookes,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.  She  died  November  25, 1886  ; 
married  (second),  August  28,  1890,  Eleanor  Frances  Tilton, 
of  Natick,  Mass.,  and  has  two  children  :  — 
i.  William^  Warfield,  Jr.,  b.  December  4,  1891. 
ii.  Mary  Cabell  Warfield,  b.  November  26,  1894,  Easton, 
Pa. 

401.  Sarah  Campbell  ^  Breckinridge,  born  September  6, 
1832 ;  married,  in  August,  1856,  Rev.  George  Morrison,  of 
Maryland,  and  died  in  1865,  without  issue. 

402.  Robert  J.^  Breckinridge,  Jr.,  born  September  14, 
1834  ;  educated  at  Centre  College,  Ky.,  and  at  the  Univer- 


506  THE   CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

sity  of  Virginia  ;  a  lawyer  ;  captain  and  afterwards  colonel 
in  C.  S.  A. ;  member  of  the  Confederate  Congress ;  judge 
of  the  court  of  common  pleas,  eighth  district,  Danville,  Ky. 
He  married  (first),  March  18,  1856,  Miss  Kate  Morrison, 
of  Lexington,  Ky.  She  died,  leaving  surviving  issue  :  — 
i.  Robert  J.*^  Breckinridge,  b.  June  1,  1859. 
ii.  B.  Morrison*^  Breckinridge,  b.  August  16,  1873. 

402.  Robert  J.^  Breckinridge,  Jr.,  married  (second), 
in  1882,  Lilla  Morrison,  sister  of  his  first  wife,  and  daughter 
of  Moses  Morrison,  Esq.,  of  Covington,  Ky. 

403.  Marie  Lettice  ^  Breckinridge,  born  August  14, 1836, 
in  Paris,  France  ;  married,  October  1,  1857,  at  Breadal- 
bane,  near  Lexington,  Ky.,  by  her  father,  to  Rev.  William 
ColHns  Handy,  son  of  WUham  W.  Handy,  of  Somerset 
County,  Md.,  and  his  wife,  Sarah  Brown  Upshur,  of  North- 
ampton County,  Ya.     Issue  eight  :  — 

409.  i.  Robert  Breckinridge  ^  Handy. 

ii.  William  Collins  ^  Handy,  b.  April  19, 1860,  near 
Careton,  Madison  County,  Miss. 

410.  iii.  Levin  Irving^  Handy. 

411.  iv.  John  Breckinridge  Upshur*^  Handy. 

v.  Marie  Preston  ^  Handy,  b.  July  14,  1865,  at  Ber- 
lin, Worcester  County,  Md. 
vi.  Charles  B.^  Handy,  b.  October  17,  1868,  in  Mary- 
land ;  d.  infant, 
vii.  Sophonisba  Preston^  Handy,   b.   September  16, 
1871,  at  New  Scotland,  Albany  County,  N.  Y. 
viii.  Joseph   Breckinridge  ^   Handy,    b.  January  17, 
1873,  at  New  Scotland,  Albany  County,  N.Y. 
409.  Robert  B.'^  Handy,  born  August  27, 1858,  at  Lewes, 
Delaware;  married   (first).    May   29,    1879,  at  Schoharie, 
Schoharie  County,  N.  Y.,  to  Jennie  M.  S.  Case,  of  Schoha- 
rie, aforesaid.     She  died  s.  p.     He  was  married  (second), 
January  25,  1880,  in  Cumberland,  Md.,    by    Rev.   P.  N. 
Meade,  to  E£6.e  Bruce,  only  child  of  Dr.  John  J.  Bruce,  of 
Cumberland,  and  Anne  Worthington  Dorsey  Johnson,  his 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     507 

wife.  They  reside  in  Northampton  County,  Va.,  and  he  is 
one  of  the  trustees  of  Margaret  Academy,  on  the  eastern 
shore  of  Virginia.     Issue  six  :  — 

i.  Anne  Bruce  ^  Handy,  b.  July  1,  1884. 
ii.  Robert  Breckinridge  ^  Handy,  b.  December  24,  1885. 
iii.  John  Bruce  ^  Handy,  b.  December  26,  1887. 
iv.  WiUiam  Upshur  '  Handy,  b.  March  8, 1890. 

V.  Marie  Breckinridge^  Handy,  b.  January  2,  1892. 
vi.  EfBe  Bruce '  Handy,  b.  July  16, 1894. 

410.  Levin  Irving  ^  Handy,  born  December  24,  1861, 
at  Berlin,  Worcester  County,  Md.  ;  editor  and  lecturer, 
Newark,  Del. ;  married  at  Smyrna,  Del.,  by  Rev.  John  A. 
Roche,  on  January  25,  1887,  to  Mary  Corbit  Bell,  daughter 
of  WiUiam  M.  BeU,  Esq.,  of  Smyrna.     Issue  :  — 

i.  Margaret  Irving  ^  Handy,  b.  May  27,  1889,  at  Smyrna, 

Del. 
ii.  Le\dn  Irving^  Handy,  b.  April  8,  1891,  at  Newark,  Del. 

411.  John  Breckinridge  Upshur  ^  Handy,  born  Septem- 
ber 8,  1863,  at  Berlin,  Worcester  County,  Md.  ;  married  at 
Williamsburg,  Va.,  by  Rev.  John  Anderson  (brother  of  the 
bride),  on  January  27,  1887,  to  EUza  Leake  Anderson, 
daughter  of  Richard  W.  Anderson,  Esq.,  of  Richmond, 
Va.     Issue  :  — 

i.  John  Breckinridge  Upshur  ^  Handy,  b.  September  27, 
1888,  at  St.  Paul,  Minn. 

ii.  Richard  Anderson  ^   Handy  ;  d.  infant. 

iii.  Preston  Breckinridge  ^  Handy,  b.  May  18,  1891,  at  St. 
Paul,  Minn. 

iv.  Marie  Lettice  ^  Handy,  b.  October  25,  1893,  at  Scho- 
harie, N.  Y. 

404.  WiJHam  Campbell  Preston  ^  Breckinridge,  born 
August  28,  1837,  near  Baltimore  ;  graduated  at  Centre 
College,  DanviUe,  Ky.,  April  26,  1855,  and  in  the  law  de- 
partment of  the  University  of  Louisville,  February  27, 
1857 ;  entered  the  Bar  that  year  on  his  diploma  in  Heu 
of  a  license,  as  he  was  under  21.     He  entered  the  C.  S.  A. 


608  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

in  the  fall  of  1861  as  a  captain,  and  rose  through  different 
grades  until  he  was  colonel  of  the  9th  Kentucky  Cavalry  ; 
was  in  command  of  the  Kentucky  Cavalry  Brigade  when  it 
was  sm-rendered  at  the  close  of  the  Avar.  After  the  war, 
he  resumed  the  practice  of  law  ;  was  elected  to  the  Forty- 
nintli  Congress  in  1884,  as  a  Democrat  from  the  seventh 
district  of  Kentucky,  and  has  been  reelected  continuously 
since. 

404.  He  married  (first),  March  17,  1859,  Lucretia  Clay, 
daughter   of  Hon.  Thomas  H.  Clay.     She  died  m  April, 
1860,  leaving :  — 
i.  Lee  Clay  ^  Breckinridge ;  d.  infant. 

404.  He  married  (second),  September  19,  1861,  Issa, 
daughter  of  Dr.  J.  R.  Desha,  of  Lexington,  Ky.  She  died 
in  1892.     She  had  issue  :  — 

ii.  Ella  D.*^  Breckinridge,  m.  Lyman  Chalkley. 
iii.  Sophonisba  A.^  Breckinridge, 
iv.  Desha  *^  Breckinridge. 
v.  Campbell'^  Breckinridge,   b.  September  24,  1869;  d. 

October  12,  1870. 
vi.  Issa  Desha  ^  Breckinridge,  b.  February  17,  1871 ;  d. 

July  14, 1872. 
vii.  Robert  J.^  Breckinridgfe. 
viii.  Mary  Curry  ^  Breckinridge. 

404.  He  married  (third),  in  1893,  his  cousin,  Mrs.  Louise 
R.  Scott  Wing,  widow  of  Hon.  E.  Rumsey  Wing,  and 
daughter  of  Robert  W.  Scott,  Esq.,  of  Franklin  County, 
Ky.,  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth  W.  Brown,  daughter  of  Dr. 
Preston  W.  Brown,  of  Kentucky,  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth 
Watts,  of  Virginia.  Dr.  Preston  W.  Brown  was  son  of 
Rev.  John  Brown  and  his  wife,  Margaret  Preston. 

405.  Sophonisba  Preston  ^  Breckinridge,  born  August 
22,  1839 ;  married,  Aprd  27,  1858,  Dr.  Theophilus  Steele, 
Jr.,  "formerly  of  Woodford  County,  Ky.,  now  (1879)  of 
New  York  city."    He  was  a  major  in  the  C.  S.  A.     Issue  : — 

i.  Robert  Breckinridge  ^  Steele,  d.  infant. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  509 

ii.  Mary  Warfield  ^  Steele. 
412.  iii.  Theophilus  Breckinridge  ^  Steele. 

iv.  Eliza  Wilson  ^  Steele. 

V.  Soplionisba  Preston  Breckinridge^  Steele. 
412.  Theophilus  B.'^  Steele  married,   February  2,  1883, 
Roth  Constance  Thurlow,  and  has  :  — 
i.  Robert  Breckinridge  Steele,  b.  December  14,  1883. 
ii.  Theophilus  Breckinridge  Steele,  b.  May  4,  1885. 
iii.  Helen  McC.  Steele. 
iv.  Roth  Thurlow  Steele. 

406.  Joseph  Cabell  ^  Breckinridge,  born  January  14, 
1842,  at  midnight,  in  the  manse  of  the  Second  Presbyterian 
Church,  Baltimore,  Md. ;  educated  at  Centre  College,  Ky., 
and  University  of  Vii-ginia ;  at  the  beginning  of  the  war 
abandoned  the  study  of  law  to  join  Gen.  William  Nelson's 
force  of  Kentuckians  in  the  U.  S.  A.,  of  which  he  soon 
became  acting  assistant  adjutant-general.  For  gallantry  at 
the  battle  of  Mill  Springs,  Ky.,  he  received  a  commission  in 
Battery  B,  2d  Artillery,  U.  S.  A.,  dated  April  14, 1862,  and 
afterwards  served  with  batteries  C,  H,  F,  A,  M,  and  K; 
brevetted  captain  July  26,  1864,  and  major  March  13,  1865, 
"  for  gallant  and  meritorious  conduct  in  front  of  Atlanta  " 
and  "  during  the  war."  He  also  served  on  the  staff  of 
Gens.  Nelson,  Thomas,  Halleck,  McDowell,  Terry,  Crook, 
and  Schofield,  participating  in  campaigns  of  Millspring, 
Shiloh,  Gulf,  Atlanta,  and  Nashville  ;  in  peace,  he  served  on 
the  Pacific  and  in  the  central  military  divisions  ;  he  was  pro- 
moted in  1881  major,  inspector-general,  and  rapidly  passed 
through  the  grades  of  lieutenant-colonel  and  colonel.  In 
June,  1889,  he  prepared  the  noted  General  Orders  No.  50. 
On  January  30,  1890,  he  was  promoted  brigadier-general 
and  inspector-general  of  the  army.  Since  he  has  held  this 
position,  the  inspector-general's  department  has  attained  its 
present  high  standard  of  excellence,  its  influence  being  felt 
for  good  by  the  whole  army. 

Gen.  Breckinridge    also   originated   the   movement  em- 


510  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

bodied  in  General  Orders  No.  15, 1890,  and  has  urged  many 
recently  adopted  improvements  in  the  administration  of 
military  affairs  and  the  efficiency  of  the  army.  He  has 
been  president  of  the  District  of  Columbia  Society,  and 
first  vice-president  general  of  the  National  Society  of  the 
Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  and  is  a  member  of  the 
Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion. 

He  married,  July  21,  1868,  Louisa  L.  Dudley  (No.  2094, 
Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution),  daughter  of  Dr. 
Ethelbert  L.  Dudley,  of  Lexington,  Ky.  (colonel  of  the 
21st  Regiment  Kentucky  Volunteers,  U.  S.  A.,  in  the  late 
war),  by  his  wdfe  Mary  Scott,  daughter  of  Matthew  Thomp- 
son Scott  [born  in  Shippensburg,  Pa.,  in  1786,  died  in 
Lexington,  Ky.,  August  20,  1858,  son  of  Capt.  Matthew 
Scott  of  the  Revolution,  who  was  also  the  ancestor  of  the 
late  Mrs.  Rutherford  B.  Hayes],  by  his  wife  (married,  June 
28,  1810),  Winifred  Webb,  born  in  Fayette  County,  Ky., 
1793  ;  died  July  8,  1833  (daughter  of  Capt.  Isaac  Webb, 
of  the  Revolution,  from  Virginia,  who  was  also  the  ancestor 
of  the  late  Mrs.  Benjamin  Harrison). 

Dr.  Ethelbert  Ludlow  Dudley  descended  from  Gen.  James 
Chambers,  Col.  CorneHus  Ludlow,  and  Capt.  Ambrose  Dud- 
ley (born  in  1750  in  Spottsylvania  County,  Va.),  of  Revo- 
lutionary fame. 

406.  Gen.  Joseph  Cabell  ^  and  Louisa  L.  Dudley  Breckin- 
ridge have  had  issue  thirteen  :  — 

i.  Mary  Dudley  ^  Breckinridge,  b.  July  20,  1869. 

ii.  Robert  Jefferson  ^  Breckinridge,  d.  infant, 
iii.  Joseph  Cabell  Breckinridge,  b.  March  6,  1872. 

iv.  Louise  Dudley  Breckinridge,  d.  infant. 

V.  Ethelbert  L.  Dudley  Breckinridge,  b.  July  17,  1875. 

vi.  Mabell  Warfield  Breckinridge,  d.  infant, 
vii.  Lucian  Scott  Breckinridge,  b.  December  1,  1878. 
viii.  Lucy  Hayes  Breckinridge,  b.  January  7,  1881. 

ix.  Scott  Dudley  Breckinridge,  b.  May  23,  1882. 

X.  Charles  Henry  Preston  Breckinridge,  d.  infant. 

xi.  Henry  Skillman  Breckinridge,  b.  May  25,  1886. 


GEN.  JOSEPH  CABELL  BRECKINRIDGE,  U.  S.  A. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  511 

xii.  Margaret  Scott  Skillman  Breckinridge,  b.  May  1, 1889. 
xiii.  John  Preston  Breckinridge,  b.  October  29,  1890. 


95.  William  Lewis*  Breckinridge,  born  at  "Cabell's 
Dale,"  Ky.,  July  22,  1803;  liis  education  was  completed 
at  Transylvania  University.  Rev.  Dr.  E.  P.  Humphrey,  in 
his  funeral  sermon,  gave  the  following  sketch  of  his  life :  — 

"  Rev.  Dr.  WilHam  L.  Breckinridge  became  a  disciple  of 
Christ  at  the  age  of  fifteen.  He  began  life  as  a  farmer, 
first  in  the  neighborhood  of  Louisville  and  then  in  Fayette 
County,  Ky.  But  it  pleased  God  to ,  call  him  into  the 
ministry,  and  no  sooner  was  he  called  than  he  obeyed.  He 
began  to  preach  the  gospel  about  forty-five  years  ago  in  the 
Presbyterian  Church  in  Maysville,  Ky.  This  entire  period 
of  forty-five  years  has  been  filled  with  unremitting  labors 
in  the  pastoral  charge,  or  in  schools  of  learning.  He  has 
held  the  office  of  professor  in  the  college  at  Danville,  Ky., 
and  the  office  of  president  in  Oakland  College,  Miss.,  and  in 
Centre  College,  Ky.  He  first  sustained  the  pastoral  charge 
in  Maysville,  Ky.,  and  he  closed  his  life  as  a  minister  at 
large  in  Cass  County,  Mo. ;  but  the  golden  period  of  his 
life  was  devoted  to  the  pastoral  care  of  the  First  Church  in 
Louisville.  He  began  his  labors  here  on  the  first  Sabbath 
of  January,  1836,  and  continued  them  about  twenty-three 
years.  [He  was  moderator  of  the  Second  General  Assembly 
of  the  Presbyterian  Council  in  1859.] 

"  We  have  mentioned  the  influences  under  which  he  was 
educated  at  home.  These  influences  were  strengthened 
by  the  piety  and  the  practical  wisdom  and  the  love  of  the 
noble  woman  who  became  his  wife  when  both  were  very 
young,  even  in  the  forming  period  of  life.  He  was  a 
courteous,  urbane,  and  polished  Christian  gentleman.  He 
was  remarkable  for  his  candor,  his  transparent  honesty  in 
every  word  and  act  of  life.  It  was  often  said  that  no  man 
in  Louisville  was  more  influential  than  he.  "  All  ye  that 
are  about  him  bemoan  him ;  and  all  ye  that  know  his  name 
say,  How  is  the  strong  stafF  broken  and  the  beautiful  rod." 


512  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

He  married  (first),  in  1823  or  1824,  Frances  C,  daughter 
of  Judge  Prevost,  of  Louisiana,  and  granddaughter  of 
Pres.  S.  S.  Smith,  of  Princeton,  whose  daughter  married 
Joseph  C.  Breckinridge  (132).  Judge  Prevost  is  said  to 
have  been  the  son  of  Mrs.  Aaron  Burr  by  her  first  husband, 
"  Gen.  Augustine  Prevost,  a  British  officer  of  the  American 
Revohition,  by  his  wife  Anne,  who  was  a  daughter  of  Chev- 
alier George  Grand,  of  Amsterdam." 

95.  Rev.  William  L.^  and  Frances  C.  Prevost  Breckin- 
ridge had  issue  twelve  :  — 

i.  Cabell  ^  Breckinridge,  b.    March    11,  1825;    d. 
August  10,  1837. 

413.  ii.  John  Barton  ^  Breckinridge,  b.  October  6,  1826 ; 

graduate  of  Princeton,  1843  ;  an  editor  ;  d.  un- 
married. 

414.  iii.  Robert  James  ^  Breckinridge. 

415.  iv.  Marcus  Prevost^  Breckinridge. 

416.  V.  William  Lewis  ^  Breckinridge,  Jr. 

vi.  Lewis  Green  ^  Breckinridge,  b.  1834  j  d.  1835. 
vii.  Francis  Prevost^  Breckinridge. 

417.  viii.  Mary  Hopkins '^  Breckinridge. 

418.  ix.  Stanhope  Prevost^  Breckinridge. 

X.  Theodosia  P.^  Breckinridge,  b.  1843  ;  d.  1844. 

419.  xi.  Cabell^  Breckinridge. 

xii.  Letitia  P.^  Breckinridge,  b.  1849  ;  d.  1852. 

95.  Rev.  W.  L."*  Breckinridge,  D.  D.,  married  (second) 
Mrs.  Sarah  A.  Garnett,  widow  of  Dr.  R.  B.  Garnett,  and 
daughter  of  Judge  Christopher  Tompkins.^ 

She  is  now  Hving  at  Evanston,  lUinois. 

414.  Robert  James  ^  Breckinridge,  born  December  2, 
1828;  educated  at  Centre  College,  Ky. ;  physician  of 
Louisville,  Ky.  ;  medical  inspector,  C.  S.  A. ;  died  July  8, 
1867.  He  married  Kate  Hunt  [a  sister  to  the  wife  of 
Albert  Fink,  of  railroad  fame,  and  daughter  of  A.  D.  Hunt, 
of  Louisville,  Ky.  (an  uncle  of  Gen.  John  H.  Morgan),  by 

^  See  Green's  Historic  Families  of  Kentucky,  p.  197. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  513 

his  wife,  Ellen  Jackson,  sister  of  James  (331)  and  (332) 
George  M.  Jackson,  of  Hon.  William  M.  Jackson,  of  Ala- 
bama, and  of  the  wives  of  Capt.  James  Kirkman,  C.  S.  A., 
and  Rufus  K.  Polk,  a  brother  of  Gen.  Leonidas  Polk,  C.  S. 
A.]     Issue  six  :  — 

i.  EUen  ^  Breckinridge. 

ii.  Frances^     Breckinridge,    m.     Capt.     Stephen     Jones, 

U.  S.  N.,  of  LouisviUe,  Ky. 
iii.  Hunt  ^  Breckinridsfe. 
iv.   Robert^  Breckinridge. 

V.  Richard  ^  Breckinridg-e. 
vi.  Kate^  Breckinridge,  m.  Mr.  Bishop,  of  Louisville,  Ky. 

415.  Marcus  Prevost^  Breckinridge,  born  October  17, 
1830 ;  graduated  at  Princeton,  1848 ;  was  a  physician ; 
a  captain  in  U.  S.  A. ;  died  July  25,  1870,  at  Alton,  111. 
He  married,  January  27,  1853,  in  Louisville,  Ky.,  Miss 
Lucy,  only  daughter  of  Col.  S.  H.  Long,  U.  S.  A.  Is- 
sue :  — 

i.  Stephen  Long^  Breckinridge  (M.  D.),  b.  July  4,  1854, 

at  Louisville,  Ky. 
ii.  WiUiam  Lewis  ^  Breckinridge  (C.  E.),  b.  June  29,  1857, 

at  Louisville, 
iii.  Theodosia  Prevost  ^  Breckinridge,  b.  February  27, 1860, 

at  Upper  Alton,  111. ;  (d.  unmarried .) 

iv.  Lucy*^  Breckinridge,  b.  October  15,  1862,    at  Upper 

Alton,  111.     ("  She  is  married.") 
V.  Marcus   P.*^  Breckinridge,   b.  November  28,  1865,  at 

Upper  Alton,  lU. ;  d.  July  27,  1866. 
vi.  Richard  ^  Breckinridge,  b.  January  22,  1869,  at  Upper 

Alton,  111. 

416.  William  Lewis  °  Breckinridge,  born  November  12, 
1832 ;  married,  March  4,  1856,  Anna  P.,  daughter  of 
Jordan  Clark,  of  Louisville,  Ky.,  and  Jane  Logan,  his  wife, 
daughter  of  Judge  William  Logan  .^ 

*  See  Green's  Historic  Families  of  Kentucky,  pp,  161-167. 


514  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

William  L.^  Breckinridge  died  some  years  ago,  having 
had  issue  eight :  — 
i.  Charles  Clark*'    Breckinridge,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
ii.  WiUiam  Lewis  ^  Breckinridge,  d.  infant, 
iii.  Frances  Prevost  ^  Breckinridge.     ("  She  is  married.") 
iv.  Cornelia  Logan  ^  Breckinridge.     ("  She  is  married.") 
V.  WiUiam  Anderson  Breckinridge,  d.  infant, 
vi.  Robert  James  Breckinridge,  d.  infant, 
vii.  Sarah  Pope  Breckinridge, 
viii.  Thomas  Satterwhite  Breckinridge. 

417.  Mary  H.^  Breckinridge,  born  February  1,  1839; 
married,  October  25,  1866,  Milton  McKnight,  of  Louisville, 
Ky.,  son  of  Virgil  McKnight  (and  his  wife,  Anne  Logan), 
son  of  Andrew  McKnight  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Cum- 
mings,  daughter  of  John  Cummings  and  his  wife,  Esther 
Reid,  daughter  of  Andrew  Reid  and  Sarah  Reid  his  wife, 
citizens  of  Old  Amherst  County,  Va.,  in  1761.     (See  140.) 

Mrs.  Milton  ^  McKnight  had  issue  three  :  — 
i.  Frances  Prevost  ^  McKnight. 
ii.  Anne  L.  McKnight. 
iii.  Virgil  McKnight. 

418.  Stanhope  Prevost^  Breckinridge,  born  April  20, 
1841 ;  educated  at  Centre  College  ;  physician  and  surgeon, 
C.  S.  A.  ;  physician  of  LouisviUe,  Ky.  He  married,  April 
30,  1868,  Rosa  Logan  McKnight  [sister  of  Milton  Mc- 
Knight, who  married  Mary  Hopkins  Breckinridge  (417)], 
daughter  of  Virgil  McKnight.^, 

Mrs.  Rosa  L.  McK.  Breckinridge  died  August  13,  1868, 
without  issue.  "  Her  husband  removed  to  Chattanooga, 
Tenn.     He  is  now  dead." 

419.  Cabell'^  Breckinridge,  born  November  22,  1846; 
"  educated  at  Centre  College  and  a  school  of  civil  engineer- 
ing ; "  is  a  civil  engineer.     He  married,  October  7, 1868, 

^  See  Green's  Historic  Families  of  Kentucky,  p.  170. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     5],5 

Miss  Julia  Symes  Marshall,  of  Covington,  Ky. ;  resided  in 
Missouri ;  they  now  live  at  Elwanger,  Ky.     Issue  :  — 
i.  Mary  S.*^  Breckinridge,  teacher  in  Deaf  Mute  College, 

Cincinnati,  Ohio, 
ii.  Frances  P.*'  Breckinridge. 


20.   ANN  3  CABELL   HAEKISON'S   DESCENDANTS. 

96.  Susanna  Randolph  *  Harrison,  born  in  April,  1789, 
"  at  Mulberry  Grove,  in  Buckingham  County,  Virginia,  the 
residence  of  her  maternal  grandfather,  where  her  parents 
were  married,  now  (1857)  the  residence  of  Col.  Bondu- 
rant ;  "  married  (first)  Charles  Lewis,  a  merchant  of  Lynch- 
burg, Va. ;  (second),  Hugh  Brent,  Sr.,  a  merchant  of  Paris, 
Ky.,  having  no  issue  by  either;  she  died  October  12, 
1860.  

97.  Mary  Hopkins  *  Harrison,  born  at  "  Mulberry 
Grove,"  Va.,  Aprd  9, 1791 ;  married,  at  "  Elk  Hill,"  Ky., 
in  February,  1812,  Samuel  Q.  Richardson,  and  died  June 
10,  1834.  [Her  husband,  a  colonel  in  the  War  of  1812,  a 
lawyer  of  distinction  at  the  Lexington,  Ky.,  Bar,  was  mur- 
dered at  Frankfort  by  the  desperado,  John  U.  Waring, 
February  11,  1835,  in  his  45th  year.  He  was  a  son  of  Capt. 
John  Crowley  Richardson  (by  his  wife,  Sarah  Bainbridge 
Price,  a  relative  of  Commodore  William  Bainbridge),  of 
the  Maryland  fine  Continental  Army,  son  of  Col.  WiUiam 
Richardson  (by  his  wife,  Isabel  Calmes,  daughter  of  "  the 
Marquis  de  la  Calmes,  a  Huguenot  nobleman,  one  of  the 
first  settlers  of  the  valley  of  Vii-ginia,"  in  what  is  now 
Clarke  County,  and  grandfather  of  Gen.  Marquis  Calmes,  a 
captain  of  the  Virginia  line  in  the  Revolution,  and  brigadier- 
general  of  Kentucky  Volunteers  in  the  battle  of  "  the 
Thames"),  of  the  Continental  service,  who  commanded  the 
4th  battalion  of  the  Maryland  Flying  Corps,  and  later  the 
5th  battalion  of  the  line ;  he  was  also  a  member  of  the  Con- 
vention which  ratified  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States 


516  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

ill  1788.  He  was  a  son  of  Joseph  Richardson  (son  of 
William  Richardson,  of  Somerset  County,  Md.,  "  apparently 
a  minister  of  the  Society  of  Friends,"  who  died  in  May, 
1698),  who  was  married  October  25,  1705,  at  West  River 
Meeting-House,  in  Maryland,  to  Sarah,  eldest  daughter  of 
Samuel  Thomas,  "  a  prominent  member  of  the  Society  of 
Friends,"  son  of  Philip  Thomas,  who  emigrated  to  Mary- 
land in  1651  from  Bristol,  England,  by  his  wife,  Sarah 
Harrison,  a  leading  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends. 
[See  L.  B.  Thomas'  "  Maryland  Genealogical  Notes."] 
Issue  :  — 

420.  i.  Anna  Cabell  ^  Richardson. 

421.  ii.  Sarah  Bainbridge  ^  Richardson. 

422.  iii.  Mary  H.  B.^  Richardson. 

iv.  John  Crowley^  Richardson,  b.  May  4,  1824;  d. 
a  midshipman  U.  S.  N.,  in  his  18th  year,  at 
Singapore,  Straits  Settlements. 

423.  V.  Robert  Carter^  Richardson. 

424.  vi.  Samuel  Q.^  Richardson. 

420.  Anna  Cabell  ^  Richardson,  born  February,  1814  ; 
married,  in  1841,  Dr.  William  Todd,  of  Farmington,  Iowa ; 
died  in  1887,  leaving  four  children^. 

421.  Sarah  B.^  Richardson,  born  October  8, 1815  (hving, 
1894) ;  married,  at  Palmyra,  Mo.,  February  13,  1844,  Rev. 
John  Leighton,  D.  D.  [He  was  born  near  Londonderry, 
Ireland,  May  4,  1813,  the  son  of  Joseph  and  Jean  Walker 
Leighton ;  was  a  Presbyterian  minister  and  author  of  great 
learning  and  piety ;  one  of  the  pioneer  ministers  of  Mis- 
souri ;  pastor  in  Pahnyra  13  and  in  Hannibal  17  years, 
spending  the  later  years  of  his  life  with  his  daughter,  Mrs. 
Shields,  in  St.  Louis.  He  died  August  16,  1885.]  Issue, 
two  daughters  :  — 

425.  i.  Mary  Harrison  ^  Leighton. 

426.  ii.  Josephine  Walker  ^  Leighton. 

425.  Mary  Harrison  ^  Leighton,  born  at  Palmyra,  Mo., 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  517 

November  27,  1844 ;  married  in  Hannibal,  Mo.,  February 
1, 1866,  Hon.  George  Howell  Shields  (eldest  son  of  George 
W.  Shields,  of  Ohio,  and  his  wife,  Martha  Ann  Howell,  of 
Kentucky,  who  moved  to  Hannibal,  Mo.,  in  1844) ;  born 
in  Bardstown,  Ky.,  June  19,  1842 ;  captain  in  the  enrolled 
Missouri  militia,  U.  S.  A.,  in  1863-1864;  graduated  at 
Louisville  Law  School,  1865  ;  elected  city  attorney  of  Han- 
nibal, Mo.,  in  1866,  and  held  the  office  three  terms;  elected 
on  the  Repubhcan  ticket  to  the  Missouri  legislature,  in 
1870,  as  a  representative  of  Marion  County ;  candidate  for 
judge  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Missouri  on  the  Republican 
ticket  in  1874 ;  moved  to  St.  Louis  in  1873,  and  for  ten 
years  was  partner  of  Hon.  John  B.  Henderson,  United 
States  Senator  from  Missouri ;  was  chairman  of  the  Repub- 
lican State  Central  Committee,  of  Missouri,  1876-1880 ; 
member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention  of  Missouri  which 
framed  the  present  Constitution ;  president  of  the  board  of 
freeholders  that  framed  the  present  charter  of  St.  Louis, 
which  was  the  first  charter  giving  a  city  practically  the  right 
of  self-government;  appointed  assistant  attorney-general  by 
Pres.  Harrison,  in  April,  1889,  and  served  four  years  as  legal 
adviser  to  Hon.  John  W.  Noble,  the  Secretary  of  the  Interior; 
agent  and  counsel  of  the  United  States  before  the  interna- 
tional tribunal  between  the  United  States  and  Chili  for  the 
settlement  of  the  claims  of  the  citizen*  of  either  country 
against  the  respective  governments,  1893-1894 ;  first  vice- 
president  of  the  District  of  Columbia  Society  of  the  Sons  of 
the  American  Revolution,  etc.  Mr.  Shields  and  his  wife 
are  stanch  Presbyterians,  as  were  their  families  before  them, 
and  he  has  been  for  years  an  elder  in  that  church.  His 
surviving  children  are :  i.  George  Howell  ^,  Jr. ;  ii.  Sara 
Bainbridge  Leighton  ^ ;  and  iii.  Marion  Leighton  ^  Shields. 
426.  Josephine  Walker^  Leighton,  married,  in  March, 
1866,  John  B.  Shepherd,  of  Ohio,  captain  of  Ohio  Volun- 
teers, U.  S.  A.,  in  "  the  late  unpleasantness ;  "  now  a  resi- 
dent of  Hannibal,  Mo.,  where  he  is  a  prominent  business 
man,  trustee  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  etc.      Issue  :  i. 


518  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

Mary  Harrison  ^ ;  ii.  Leigliton  '^ ;  iii.  George  Shields  ^ ;  iv. 
Robert  Harrison'^;  v.  Frank ^;  and  vi.  Sarah  Preston^ 
Shepherd. 

422.  Mary  Hopkins  Breckinridge  ^  Richardson,  born  May 
10,  1817 ;  married,  in  1845,  Col.  Richard  Fell  Richmond, 
of  Hannibal,  Mo.  He  was  born  in  Kentucky ;  studied  law 
under  Gov.  Owsley ;  was  at  one  time  junior  partner  in  the 
law  firm  of  which  J.  J.  Crittenden  was  the  head.  He 
moved  to  Hannibal,  Mo.,  early  in  the  history  of  the  State, 
rose  to  the  head  of  the  northeast  Missouri  Bar ;  was  Demo- 
cratic nominee  for  Congress  in  1858,  but  was  defeated  by 
Col.  Thomas  L.  Anderson,  and  died  soon  after  from  fever 
induced  by  the  hardship  of  the  campaign,  leaving  two  sons : 

i.  Bainbridge  ^  Richmond,  b.  in  1846 ;  for  years  in  the 
United  States  mail  service. 

ii.  William  Samuel  "^  Richmond,  b.  1848  ;  studied  law  under 
Judge  Samuel  M.  Breckinridge ;  graduated  at  St. 
Louis  Law  School ;  d.  a  young  lawyer  of  great  prom- 
ise. 

423.  Robert  C.^  Richardson,  born  in  Louisville,  Ky., 
May  18,  1826  (living  1894) ;  graduated  A.  B.  and  LL.  B., 
and  was  made  A.  M.  in  the  Transylvania  University,  at 
Lexington,  Ky.  Before  attaining  the  age  of  21,  served  one 
year  as  sergeant  in  Capt.  Cassius  M.  Clay's  company,  Hum- 
phrey Marshall's  regiment,  in  the  war  with  Mexico ;  was 
appointed  a  major,  by  Pres.  Buchanan,  of  the  regiment 
tendered  by  Kentucky  to  the  general  government  during 
the  troubles  with  Utah ;  member  of  the  Kentucky  legisla- 
ture from  Kenton  County,  1855-1859 ;  superintendent  of 
public  instruction  of  Kentucky,  1859-1863 ;  has  lived,  and 
practiced  law,  in  Covington,  Ky.,  ever  since  early  manhood ; 
is  a  poet,  a  scholar,  and  a  lawyer  of  distinguished  ability ; 
married,  April  28,  1859,  Maria  Louisa  Harris,  daughter  of 
the  late  Hon.  Henry  Clay  Harris,  of  Floyd  County,  Ky. 
Issue  eight,  five  of  whom  are  dead  :  Carter  Henry*',  Logan ^, 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN      519 

Robert  ^,  John  Cabell  ^,  and  Randolph  ^  Richardson.     The 
living  are  :  — 
i.  Mary  Cabell  ^  Richardson, 
ii.  Samuel  Q.*^  Richardson, 
iii.  Edmund  Breckinridge*^  Richardson. 

424.  Samuel  Q.^  Richardson,  Jr.,  born  June  20,  1828 ; 

married,  April  17,  1858,   Mary  Jane   Williamson.     They 

reside  in  Dallas  County,  Tex.  Issue,  four  daughters  :  — 
i.  Mary  Harrison  ^  Richardson,  b.  February  1,  1861 ;  m., 
October  5,  1881,  Samuel  S.  Long,  a  lawyer  of  distinc- 
tion, of  Dallas,  Tex.  Issue  three :  i.  Robert  S.^,  b. 
August  22,  1882 ;  ii.  Samuel  Q.^,  b.  January  31, 
1887 ;  and  iii.  Benja  V.^  Long,  b.  September  13, 
1890. 

ii.  Sarah  Jane  ^  Richardson,  b.  July  13,  1866 ;  m.,  De- 
cember 18,  1890,  A.  Fielder,  merchant,  of  Dallas. 
Issue  two  :  i.  Frederick  ^,  b.  November  13,  1891 ; 
and  ii.  Robert^  Fielder,  b.  January  8,  1893. 

iii.  Susan  Frances  °  Richardson,  b.  March  14,  1869 ;  m., 
February  20,  1893,  William  B.  Shadden,  stock-raiser, 
Dallas,  Tex. 

iv.  Dora  Ella^  Richardson,  b.  March  20,  1870. 


98.  Rev.  Joseph  Cabell  *  Harrison,  D.  D.,  born  at  "  Clif- 
ton," Cumberland  County,  Va.,  May  27,  1793  ;  "  began  life 
as  a  lawyer,  meeting  with  good  success,  but  became  a  con- 
vert to  the  claims  of  religion  and  consecrated  himself  to  the 
ministry  in  the  Presbyterian  Church.  In  1824,  Rev.  John 
Breckinridge  and  himself  estabHshed  at  Lexington,  Ky., 
*  The  Western  Luminary,'  the  first  religious  periodical 
ever  pubHshed  west  of  the  Alleghany  Mountains."  He 
married,  October  22,  1818,  Sophia  Rice  (born  at  Greens- 
burg,  Green  County,  Ky.,  December  21,  1798),  eldest 
daughter  of  Rev.  James  H.  Rice  (by  his  wife,  Melinda 
Ward),  son  of  Rev.  David  Rice,  the  pioneer  Presbyterian 
minister  of  Kentucky,  and  his  wife,  Mary  Blair,  daughter 


520  THE   CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

of  Rev.  Samuel  Blair,  who  was  a  co-laborer  of  Mr.  Whit- 
field's. 

Mr.   Harrison    died  at   Covington,   Ky.,    September   7, 

1860,  leaving  issue  :  — 
i.  Anna  Cabell  ^  Harrison,  b.  September  27,  1819 ;  mar- 
ried, November  22,  1842,  Joseph  A.  Graves,  of  Boone 
County,  Ky. ;  both  dead,  leaving  three  children. 

ii.  Robert  Carter  ^  Harrison,  b.  October  5,  1821 ;  d.  1893 ; 
unmarried. 

iii.  Lucy  ^  Harrison,  b.  September  23,  1827 ;  m.  John  Jor- 
dan, of  Newport,  Ky.,  and  has  five  children. 

iv.  Maria  ^  Harrison,  b.  "  At-home-at-last,"  June  16,  1830; 
m.,  March  7,  1850,  Nathan  H.  Clarkson,  of  Hum- 
boldt, Kans.     Issue,  four  children. 

V.  Mary  Hopkins^  Harrison,  b.  at  Olney,  June  10,  1835; 
m.  Lewis  H.  Corbin,  of  Boone  County,  Ky. ;  deceased, 
leaving  one  daughter  :  i.  Lilian  ^  Corbin. 

vi.  Susan  Randolph^  Harrison,  b.  in  Ohio,  October  9, 
1837 ;  m.  George  T.  Gaines,  of  Florida ;  deceased, 
leaving  six  children. 


99.  Carter  Henry  ^  Harrison,  born  at  "Ampt  Hill," 
Cumberland  County,  Va.,  September  30,  1796 ;  educated 
at  Lexington  College,  Ky.,  Washington  College,  Va.,  1815- 
1816,  and  William  and  Mary,  1816-1817 ;  married,  Janu- 
ary 31,  1822,  Caroline  E.  RusseU;  died,  October  9,  1825, 
at  "  Elk  Hill,"  Fayette  County,  Ky.  "  As  a  man  of  busi- 
ness, firm  and  steady  in  his  resolves,  faithful  and  true  in 
his  friendships,  and  kind  and  reliable  in  his  various  relations. 
As  a  student,  he  devoted  much  thought  and  investigation 
to  his  country's  past  history,  and  to  the  course  it  behooved 
the  nation  to  pursue  in  the  future.  And,  above  all,  he  was 
a  sincere  Christian.  He  left  an  only  child  (the  older  hav- 
ing died),  who  bears  his  name."  [His  widow,  Caroline 
EvaHne  Russell  (born  June  16,  1797  ;  married  (second),  in 
1848,  Rev.  Thomas  P.  Dudley,  of  the  Baptist  Church ;  died 
August  14,  1875),  was  a  daughter  of  Col.  William  Russell 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  521 

(and  his  wife,  Nancy,  daughter  of  Samuel  Price,  who  emi- 
grated from  Vu'ginia  to  Kentucky),  for  whom  Russell 
County,  Ky,  was  named  (see  Collins)  ;  son  of  Gen.  WilHam 
Russell  (by  his  fii'st  wife,  Tabitha  Adams),  for  whom  Rus- 
sell County,  Va.,  was  named.  See  "  WilHam  Russell  and 
his  Descendants,"  by  Anna  Russell  des  Cognets,  1884.] 
Their  only  surviving  child  :  — 

427.  i.  Carter  Henry  ^  Harrison,  b.  February  15,  1825, 
near  Lexington,  Ky.,  on  the  plantation  now 
known  as  the  "  Penniston  Place,"  a  well-known 
trotting-stock  farm ;  educated  by  his  mother, 
1830-1840 ;  under  the  tutelage  of  Dr.  Lewis 
Marshall,  brother  of  the  greatest  of  the  chief 
justices,  1840-1842 ;  at  Yale,  where  he  gradu- 
ated, 1842-1845 ;  and  then  studied  law  at  Lex- 
ington, Ky.,  for  a  year.  "  From  1847  to  1851, 
he  devoted  himself  to  the  care  of  the  large  plan- 
tation his  father  had  left  him  as  his  patrimony," 
and  to  storing  his  mind  from  an  extensive  course 
of  reading.  In  1851-1852,  he  traveled  in  Eu- 
rope and  Asia,  a  part  of  the  time  with  Bayard 
Taylor.  "  Retm-ned  to  Kentucky  in  1852,  com- 
pleted his  law  studies,  was  admitted  to  the  Bar, 
but  resumed  the  care  of  his  plantation."  His  first 
political  position  was  as  a  delegate  to  the  Ken- 
tucky anti-slavery  convention.  He  m.  (first),  in 
1855,  his  cousin,  Sophonisba  G.  Preston  (daugh- 
ter of  320) ;  went  to  Chicago  on  his  wedding 
tour,  became  captivated  with  the  city,  and  re- 
solved to  remove  there.  Two  years  later  he  sold 
out  in  Kentucky,  invested  in  Chicago,  became 
identified  with  the  city's  life  as  a  citizen,  and 
from  thence  onward  his  own  life  was  inspired 
with  a  growing  love  and  pride  for  the  city  which 
in  him  became  almost  idolatry.  He  began  the 
practice  of  law,  but  rehnquished  it,  and  devoted 
himself  to  the  real  estate  business.     His  political 


522  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

career  began  in  1871,  when  he  was  elected  a 
county  commissioner  on  the  "  fire-proof  "  ticket. 
In  1872,  he  was  the  Democratic  candidate  for 
Congress  in  the  second  Ilhnois  district,  but  was 
defeated;  took  his  family  to  Europe  in  the  spring 
of  1874,  where  they  remained  several  years ;  re- 
turned to  Chicago  in  the  fall  of  1874 ;  was  again 
nominated  for  Congress ;  was  elected ;  served  as 
member  of  Congress  from   Chicago,   March    4, 

1875,  to  March  4,  1879.  Visited  his  family  in 
Europe  in  the  summer  of  1875.     In  September, 

1876,  his  first  wife  d.  in  Gera,  Germany,  where 
his  older  children  were  being  educated.  He  left 
for  Germany  and  brought  his  children  home. 
The  remains  of  his  wife  were  brought  to  their 
last  resting-place,  in  "  Graceland,"  eleven  years 
later.  He  declined  a  renomination  for  Congress 
in  the  fall  of  1878 ;  was  mayor  of  Chicago  from 
the  spring  of  1879  to  the  spring  of  1887.  He 
m.  (second)  Margaret,  daughter  of  Marcus 
Stearns,  of  Chicago ;  she  d.  in  the  spring  of 
1887,  s.  p.  With  his  son,  William  P.  Harrison, 
and  others,  he  made  a  trip  around  the  world, 
July,  1887,  to  November,  1888,  of  which  he 
wrote  a  book  caUed  "  A  Race  with  the  Sun." 
His  party  wished  him  to  be  its  candidate  for 
mayor  in  1889,  but  he  dechned.  He  bought  the 
"  Chicago  Times  "  in  1891,  in  which  year  he  was 
an  independent  candidate  for  mayor ;  and  al- 
though the  organizations  of  both  great  parties 
were  against  him,  he  was  defeated  only  by  a 
smaU  plurahty.  He  was  mayor  of  Chicago  in 
1893,  and  all  the  world  knows  the  magnificent 
manner  in  which  he  acquitted  himself  as  the 
World's  Fair  mayor  of  the  world's  fan*  city. 
And  his  assassination  in  his  own  home  on  the 
evening  of  October  28,  1893,  the  proudest  day 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  523 

of  his  life,  shocked  this  country  and  the  world  as 
it  has  seldom  been  shocked  before. 

By  his  first  wife  he  had  ten  children  :  — 

i.  WiUie  ^  Harrison,  b.  1856  ;  d.  infant. 

428.  ii.  Carohne  Dudley^  Harrison. 

429.  iii.  Carter  Henry  Harrison,  Jr. 

iv.  Hebe  Grayson  Harrison,  b.  1862 ;  d. 
infant. 

V.  Dudley  Harrison,  b.  1864 ;  d.  infant. 

vi.  Randolph   Harrison,  b.   1866 ;  d.  in- 
fant, 
vii.  Harry  Grayson  Harrison,  b.  1868 ;  d. 
infant. 

430.  viii.  William  Preston  Harrison,  b.  April  12, 

1869 ;  made  the  trip  around  the 
world  with  his  father,  1887-1888  ; 
with  his  brother.  Carter,  one  of  the 
pubHshers  of  the  "  Chicago  Times," 
1891-1893 ;  and  one  of  the  editors, 
1893-1895. 

ix.  Gracie  Harrison,  b.  1871 ;  d.  infant. 

X.  Sophie  Preston  Harrison,  b.  December 
17,  1873. 

428.  Carohne  Dudley*^  Harrison,  born  March  28,  1857; 
married  in  July,  1887,  Heaton  Owsley,  son  of  John  G. 
Owsley,  of  Chicago,  and  has  two  children  :  i.  Lina  Harri- 
son " ;  and  ii.  Sophia  Preston  Oicsley. 

429.  Carter  Henry  ^  Harrison,  Jr.,  born  April  23,  1860 ; 
at  school  in  Germany,  1873-1876 ;  graduated  at  St.  Igna- 
tius College,  Chicago,  in  1881,  and  in  law  at  Yale,  in 
1883 ;  in  real  estate  business  in  Chicago,  1883-1891 ;  one 
of  the  pubHshers  of  the  "  Chicago  Times,"  1891-1893,  and 
one  of  the  editors  since  his  father's  death.  He  married, 
December  14,  1887,  Edith  Ogden  [daughter  of  Robert  N. 
Ogden,  of  New  Orleans,  La. ;  now  judge  of  the  Court  of 
Appeals  of  Louisiana  for  Parish  of  Orleans.  Judge  Ogden 
was  colonel  of  a  Louisiana  regiment  in  the  C.  S.  A.,  and 


524  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

has  been  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Representatives  of  Louisi- 
ana], and  has  issue :  i.  Carter  Henry  ^  Harrison  (thu'd),  b. 
June  28,  1890.  

100.  Ann  Cabell*  Harrison,  born  at  "  Ampt  Hill,"  Cum- 
berland County,  Va.,  August  28,  1798  ;  married,  early  in 
1818,  Samuel  M.  Brown,  a  lawyer  of  distinction,  decision, 
and  courage,  at  the  Lexington,  Ky.,  Bar.  He  was  born  in 
Baltimore  County,  Md.,  March  26,  1790 ;  represented  the 
city  of  Louisville  several  years  in  the  Kentucky  legislature; 
was  United  States  general  postal  supervisor  during  the 
administration  of  Pres.  Tyler;  was  blown  up  in  the  Ohio 
River  steamboat.  The  Lucy  Walker,  near  Albany,  Ind., 
October  22,  1844.     Issue :  — 

i.  Virginia  Harrison  ^  Brown,  b.  1819 ;  d.  1828. 
ii.  Letitia  Preston  ^  Brown,  b.  1820 ;  d.  1828. 
iii.  Robert  Harrison^  Brown,  b.  1822;  d.  1828. 

431.  iv.  George  Mason  ^  Brown. 

432.  V.  William  Breckinridg'e  ^  Brown. 

vi.  Samuel  Mansfield^  Brown,   b.  April   30,   1830; 
soldier   in    Capt.    Robertson's    company,  Ken- 
tucky Volimteers,  Mexican    War ;    afterwards 
went  to  California,  and  was  buried  under  an 
avalanche, 
vii.  Ann  Mary  Cabell  ^  Brown,  b.  1834 ;  d.  1854,  s.  p. 
viii.  Theodosia  ^  Brown,  b,  1836 ;  d.  1836. 
Lx.  Joshua^  Brown,  b.  1838;  d.  1838. 
X.  Carter  Henry  ^  Brown,  b.  1840;  d.  1840. 
431.  George  Mason  ^  Brown,  born  September  21,  1824 ; 
second   Heutenant   in   Capt.   Cassius   M.    Clay's   company, 
Marshall's  regiment,  in  the  Mexican  War,  he  greatly  dis- 
tinguished himself  at  Buena  Vista ;  married,  August  20, 
1849,  Mrs.  Sarah  A.  Hickhn,  of  Bourbon  County,  Ky. ; 
moved  to  Sahne  County,  Mo.,  in  1850 ;  a  captain  in  the 
C.  S.  A.  ;  fell  in  the  battle  of  Booneville,  Mo.,  in  1861 ; 
leaving  issue :  — 
i.  Jane  S.^  Brown,  b.  AprH  21,  1850. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  525 

ii.  Robert  Harrison  ^  Brown,  b.  November  24,  1851. 

iii.  Alexander  ^  Brown,  b.  May  8,  1853. 

iv.  Ann  Mary  Cabell*^  Brown,  b.  May  8,  1854. 

V.  Perry  Beard  *^  Brown,  b.  October  23,  1855. 

vi.  Carter  Henry  ^  Brown,  b.  August  10,  1857. 

432.  William  Breckinridge  ^  Brown,  born  February  5, 
1828 ;  went  to  California  with  Col.  William  H.  Russell  in 
the  spring  of  1846,  where  he  joined  the  CaHf  ornia  battalion, 
under  Col.  J.  C.  Fremont ;  was  sent  back  (ranking  as  Heu- 
tenant)  as  commander  of  escort,  with  Col.  Russell,  who  was 
bearer  of  dispatches  in  1847 ;  was  summoned  as  a  witness 
on  the  trial  of  Col.  Fremont ;  returned  by  land  to  Califor- 
nia in  1849,  where  he  resided  until  1852,  when  he  returned 
to  Sahne  County,  Mo.,  where  he  married,  February  14, 
1853,  Lenora  V.  Thompson.  "He  was  an  extraordinary 
man ; "  distinguished  himself  under  Fremont,  etc. ;  was  colo- 
nel of  a  Missouri  Confederate  regiment,  and  was  killed  in 
the  battle  of  Booneville,  Mo.,  in  1861.  Left  issue  :  — 
i.  George  Washington  ^  Brown,  b.  December  4,  1853. 
ii.  Robert  H.*^  Brown,  b.  December  15,  1855. 
iii.  Lucy  Cabell*^  Brown,  b.  June  16,  1857. 


101.  Robert  Carter  *  Harrison,  born  at  "  Ampt  Hill," 
Cimiberland  County,  Va.,  in  October,  1800 ;  educated  at 
William  and  Mary  College ;  was  a  lawyer  ;  member  of  the 
state  legislatures  of  both  Kentucky  and  Missouri ;  Speaker 
of  the  Missouri  House  of  Representatives.  He  married,  Feb- 
ruary 18,  1829,  Theodosia  Tompkins,  of  Fayette  County, 
Ky.,  a  niece  of  Judge  Tompkins ;  removed  from  Kentucky 
to  "  Arrow  Rock,"  Cooper  County,  Mo.,  in  the  spring  of 
1838.     Issue,  an  only  child  :  — 

433.  i.  Sarah  Ann  ^  Harrison,  b.  September  20,  1833 ;  m., 
January  17,  1856,  her  cousin,  David  ^  Castleman 
(437).  

102.  Elizabeth  Lewis  *  Harrison,  born  at  "  Ampt  Hill " 


526  THE   CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

in  September,  1802 ;  married  James  Devore,  a  lawyer,  of 
Lexington,  Ky.,  who  died  in  a  few  years,  leaving  two 
sons : — 

i.  Robert  Harrison  ^  Devore. 
ii.  Samuel^  Devore. 


103.  Sarah  Randolph  "*  Harrison,  born  at  "Ampt  Hill,"  in 
October,  1804 ;  married  (first)  Capt.  Isaac  Lansdale  (a 
prominent  Texan  pioneer,  who  died  of  cholera  in  1833), 
by  whom  she  had  four  children,  all  of  whom  died  young. 
Some  time  after  the  death  of  her  first  husband,  she  married 
Mr.  Bulkley,  of  Chicago,  by  whom  she  had  two  or  more 
children,  only  one  of  whom  survived  childhood  :  — 
i.  Robert  H.'^  Bulkley,  Esq.,  of  Chicago. 


104.  Vu'ginia  *  Harrison  "  was  born  at  Mt.  Athos,  Camp- 
bell County,  Va.,  in  the  hospitable  home  of  her  uncle,  the 
late  Col.  William  J.  Lewis,  than  whom  a  more  magnanimous 
spirit  has  seldom  lived  in  our  Avorld,  on  the  4tli  of  July, 
1806 ;  being  the  last  child  of  her  parents  born  in  the  great 
and  venerable  State  which  is  the  object  far  beyond  all  other 
States  of  the  best  affections  of  her  children,  she  was  called 
Virginia,  in  memory  of  the  land  of  their  nativity,  which 
they  were  then  leaving."  This  child  of  the  old  mother  of 
States  is  still  surviving,  the  venerable  mother  of  many  chil- 
dren who  cheer  her  declining  years.  She  is  the  oldest  liv- 
ing great-grandchild  of  Dr.  William  Cabell,  the  emigrant. 
She  married,  at  "  Elk  Hill,"  in  October,  1824,  David  Castle- 
man,  Esq.  (born  October  30, 1786 ;  cUed  May  23,  1852),  of 
"  Castleton,"  near  Lexington,  Ky.,  son  of  Lewis  Castleman, 
who  emigrated  from  Virginia  to  Kentucky  and  located  at 
"  The  Old  Mansion,"  in  Woodford  County ;  a  splendid 
farmer  on  a  splendid  farm.  The  Castleman  is  an  old  Dor- 
set, England,  family.  Mrs.  Castleman  had  fourteen  chil- 
dren, three  of  whom,  Mary'^,  Margaret^,  and  Sue'',  died 
infants.  The  others  are  :  — 
434.       i.  Anna  Cabell^  Castleman. 


MRS.   VIRGINIA   HARRISON   CASTLEMAN 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  527 

435.  ii.   Virginia  Harrison^  Castleman,  m.  Judge  Samuel 

Miller  Breckinridge.     See  394. 

436.  iii.  Lewis  °  Castleman. 

iv.  Robert  Carter  ^  Castleman,  b.  August  19,  1831  j 
killed  in  railroad  accident,  June  22,  1852. 

437.  V.  David  ^  Castleman. 

438.  vi.  Mary  Ann  ^  Castleman. 

439.  vii.  John  Breckinridge^  Castleman. 

440.  viii.  Fannie  ^  Castleman. 

441.  ix.  Humphreys^  Castleman. 

442.  X.  Sarah  BeUe^  Castleman. 

443.  xi.  George  Alfred^  Castleman. 

434.  Anna  Cabell  ^  Castleman,  born  December  28, 1825 ; 
married  (first).  May  14,  1845,  Henry  W.  D.  Kyle,  who  died 
October  6,  1850.     Issue :  — 

i.  Castleman^  Kyle,  b.  1846;  d.  1847. 

444.  ii.  Virginia  Castleman  ^  Kyle. 

434.  Mrs.  Anna  C.^  Kyle  married  (second),  April  7, 
1852,  Dr.  David  Castleman  Tandy.  She  died  January  27, 
1890,  leaving  by  her  second  husband  :  — 

445.  iii.  Robert  Castleman  ^  Tandy. 

iv.  David  C.^  Tandy,   b.   August   16,    1858;    m.   in 
October,  1887,  and  d.  July  8,  1891,  leaAdng  a 
daughter  :  i.  Vu'ginia  Castleman  ^  Tandy. 
V.  Lewis  GabrieP  Tandy,  b.  July  31,  1861. 

444.  Vii'ginia  Castleman  ^  Kyle,  born  May  14,  1848 ; 
married,  September  27,  1870,  Claiborne  Barksdale  Hunt, 
of  Vu-ginia.  They  live  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  and  have  six  chil- 
dren :  — 

i.  David  Tandy'  Hunt,  b.  August  17,  1871. 
ii.  Claiborne  Barksdale '  Hunt,  b.  March  27,  1874. 
iii.  George  Kyle'  Hunt,  b.  November  11,  1877. 
iv.  Robert  Castleman '  Hunt,  b.  February  8,  1879. 
V.  Virginia  Tandy'  Hunt,  b.  July  26,  1880. 
vi.  Lee'  Hunt,  b.  June  11,  1887. 

445.  Robert  C.*^  Tandy,  b.  May  25,  1853 ;  m.,  November 
15,  1876,  Orie  Carr.     Issue  :  — 


528  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

i.  Anna  Cabell  Castleman  ^  Tandy,  b.  August  24,  1877. 

ii.  A  son^  b.  October  4 ;  d.  October  8,  1878. 
iii.  Orie  Carr  ^  Tandy,  b.  November  8,  1879. 
iv.  Virginia  Castleman^  Tandy,  b.  1881;  d.  1882. 

V.  David  Castleman^  Tandy,  b.  March  1,  1883. 
vi.  Robert  Castleman^  Tandy,  b.  1884;  d.  1885. 
vii.  George  Castleman  ^  Tandy,  b.  February  20,  1890. 

436.  Lewis  ^  Castleman,  born  October  8,  1828 ;  educated 
at  Jefferson  College,  Cannonsburg,  Pa.  (now  Washington 
and  Jefferson,  Washington,  Pa.) ;  a  planter  in  Arkansas ; 
a  soldier  in  the  C.  S.  A. ;  married,  March  29,  1871,  Susan 
Mary  Herndon,  of  Frankfort,  Ky. ;  a  farmer  and  man  of 
affairs,  residing  near  Bunceton,  Cooper  County,  Mo.  He 
has  two  children  :  — 

i.  Dayton  ^  Castleman,  b.  January  4,  1872 ;  a  merchant 
and  business  man. 

ii.  WilHam'^  Herndon  Castleman,  b.  May  18,  1875,  at 
Frankfort,  Ky. ;  a  student  at  Hampden  Sidney  Col- 
lege, Va. 

437.  David  ^  Castleman,  b.  March  3,  1833 ;  married, 
January  17,  1856,  his  cousin,  Sarah  Ann  Harrison  (born 
September  20, 1833)  (433).  They  live  in  Missouri.  "Their 
first  child  was  born  in  December,  1856." 

438.  Mary  Ann  ^  Castleman,  born  May  10,  1836 ;  mar- 
ried, October  2,  1856,  Dr.  WilHam  Webb,  of  St.  Louis, 
Mo.  He  was  born  in  Hillsboro,  N.  C. ;  served  through  the 
late  civil  war  as  surgeon  in  the  C.  S.  A.     Issue  five :  — 

i.  David  Castleman  ^  Webb,  b.  February  1,  1858 ;  attor- 
ney at  law,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

ii.  Anne  Huske  ^^  Webb,  b.  August  4,  1860. 

iii.  Mary^  Castleman  Webb,  b.  January  31,  1867. 

iv.  Virginia  C.  BJ^  Webb,  b.  April  14,  1870 ;  m.,  Novem- 
ber 20,  1889,  Arthur  Wilson  Lambert,  a  native  of 
Alexandria,  Va.,  a  resident  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.  Issue, 
three  sons :  i.  Arthur  Wilson,"^  b.  September  17, 
1890  ;  ii.  William  Henry,^  b.  July  28,  1892 ;  and  iii. 
Samuel  B."^  Lambert,  b.  March  16,  1894. 


THE  FOUNDER'S   GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  529 

V.  WilHe'  Webb  (daughter),  b.  February  17,  1875. 

439.  John  Breckinridge^  Castleman,  born  June  30, 
1842,  at  "  Castleton,"  the  family  seat,  five  miles  north  of 
Lexington  ;  served  with  distinction  with  Morgan's  com- 
mand in  the  C.  S.  A. ;  adjutant-general  of  Kentucky  under 
Gov.  Buckner ;  "  is  a  man  of  affairs  of  Louisville,  Ky., 
where  he  married  Miss  Barbee,  and  has  several  children." 

440.  Fannie^  Castleman  (twin  with  Humphreys),  born 
April  10,  1844.  She  has  been  described  as  "  the  belle 
of  the  Blue  Grass  region,  a  stately,  handsome,  and  noble 
lady,  of  the  rarest  virtues  and  most  varied  accompKshments. 
She  is  famous  as  a  musician,  hnguist,  and  artist."  She 
married,  March  4,  1868,  Maj.  George  Bernard  Eastin.  He 
was  born  in  Lexington,  Ky.,  in  August,  1842 ;  educated  at 
Transylvania  University,  Georgetown  College,  and  Kenyon 
College,  Ohio ;  enHsted  as  a  private  in  Morgan's  Cavalry, 
C.  S.  A.,  became  Heutenant,  then  captain  and  brevet  ma- 
jor. He  fought  the  fight  to  a  finish,  and,  after  peace, 
adopted  the  law  as  a  profession ;  graduated  at  Louisville 
Law  School,  April,  1867,  and  soon  reached  the  head  of  the 
Bar.  He  was  appointed  a  judge  of  the  Kentucky  Court  of 
Appeals,  February  22,  1895.  They  reside  in  Louisville, 
Ky.  ;   have  had  an  only  child  :  — 

i.  George  B.*^  Eastin,  b.  June  26,  1870 ;  d.  November  1, 
1879. 

441.  Humphreys^  Castleman,  born  April  10,  1844,  at 
Castleton ;  private  Company  D,  Morgan's  Cavalry,  C.  S.  A., 
from  1862  to  Lee's  surrender,  April  9,  1865 ;  dealer  in 
stocks  and  bonds,  first  at  Columbus,  since  at  Atlanta,  Ga. 
"  Married,  October  21,  1868,  at  ^  Hilton,'  near  Columbus, 
Ga.,  to  Eva,  daughter  of  W.  W.  Garrard  (of  Huguenot  de- 
scent) and  his  wife,  Frances  Isabel  Urquhart,  a  great-grand- 
daughter of  Sir  David  Urquhart,  of  Urquhart  Castle,  Scot- 
land."    Surviving  issue :  — 

i.  Mary  Isabel  Garrard  ^  Castleman. 
ii.  Louis  Garrard  Castleman. 

442.  Sarah  Belle  ^  Castleman,  born  at  "  Castleton,"  near 


530  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

Lexington,  Ky.,  April  17,  1846 ;  married,  June  21,  1866, 
at  "  Refuge,"  near  Lexington,  Ky.,  to  John  W.  Carroll,  a 
native  of  Virginia  and  a  citizen  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  where  he 
died,  March  15,  1890,  leaving  three  children  :  — 
i.  Jidia   Wingate   Castleman  ^   Carroll,  b.   at  "  Refuge," 

near  Lexington,  Ky.,  August  28,  1867. 
ii.  John  Bryce*^  Carroll,  b.  in  St.  Louis,  September  13, 
1870 ;  m.,  in  1888,  Nellie  Brenham.  He  is  in  busi- 
ness in  St.  Louis, 
iii.  John  Scudder  ®  CarroU,  b.  April  7,  1876,  in  St.  Louis, 
where  he  is  now  in  business. 
443.  George  Alfred^  Castleman,  born  at  "Castleton," 
Fayette  County,  Ky.,  October  4,  1847;  at  Washington 
and  Lee  University,  Va.,  1867-1868;  married,  at  San 
Antonio,  Tex.,  April  4,  1888,  to  Lucie  Read  Cable,  of 
Rock  Island,  111. ;  attorney  at  law,  St.  Louis,  Mo. ;  mem- 
ber of  the  lower  house  of  the  Missouri  legislature,  1885- 
1887;  member  of  the  state  senate  of  Missouri,  1887- 
1891 ;  resigned  in  February,  1889  ;  candidate  of  the  Dem- 
ocratic party  for  the  United  States  Congress  in  the  ninth 
district  of  Missouri,  1888;  appointed,  by  Gov.  David  R. 
Francis,  of  Missouri,  judge  of  criminal  court,  St.  Louis, 
September  5,  1892,  and  served  till  succeeded,  in  January, 
1893.  His  wife  is  a  sister  of  Hon.  Benjamin  T.  Cable, 
member  of  the  Democratic  National  Committee  for  Illinois 
in  1892,  and  a  daughter  of  Hon.  Philander  L.  Cable,  of 
Rock  Island,  president  of  the  Canadian  Pacific  and  other 
railroads,  who  died  on  a  ranch  near  San  Antonio,  Tex.,  in 
1886  (son  of  James  and  Lucie  Head  Cable,  of  Ohio),  by 
his  wife,  Mary  Jane  Taylor,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Taylor, 
of  Scott  County,  Ky.,  and  his  wife,  Theodosia  Payne. 

Benjamin  Taylor  was  a  son  of  Rev.  John  Taylor,  a  Bap- 
tist minister  [born  in  Fauquier  County,  Va.,  in  1752 ;  emi- 
grated to  Kentucky  in  1783  ;  settled  in  Woodford  County ; 
died  near  Frankfort  in  1833],  by  his  wife,  Annie  Cave,  who 
descended  from  Benjamin  Cave  (who  came  to  Virginia  from 
England  about  1725)  and  his  wife,  Hannah,  daughter  of 
William  Bledsoe. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  531 

Theodosia  Payne  was  a  daughter  of  Henry  and  Annie 
Layne  Payne,  of  Kentucky,  but  a  descendant  from  the 
Payne  family  of  Loudoun  County,  Va. 


105.  Pocahontas  Rebecca  Peyton  *  Harrison,  born  at  Elk 

Hill,  Ky.,  in  August,  1809 ;  married  Dr.  Samuel  Sloane,  of 

Jacksonville,  111.     They  soon  after  moved  to  Palmyra,  Mo., 

where  both  died  prior  to  1850,  leaving  four  children :  — 

i.  Mary  ^  Sloane,  has  married  three  times,  has  been  a  great 

traveler  "  all  over  the  world." 
ii.  Virginia^  Sloane,  m.,  but  name  of  husband  not  given, 
iii.  Robert  Harrison^  Sloane  is  now  a  physician  living  in 

the  interior  of  New  York  State. 
iv.  Samuel^  Sloane,  a  captain  in  the  U.  S.  A.  in  the  war 

between  the  States ;  is  now  a  resident  of  New  York. 


IV.    COL.  JOHN  2  CABELL'S  BRANCH. 
22.    DR.    GEORGE  3   CABELL'S   DESCENDANTS. 

106.  PauKna*  Cabell  (died  in  December,  1833),  married, 
February  10, 1814,  Alexander  Spotswood  Henry  (born  June 
2,  1788 ;  died  in  1854),  of  Campbell  County,  Va.,  son  of 
Patrick  Henry  the  orator  (see  54).     Issue  ten :  — 

i.  George    Lafayette  ^   Henry,    b.  1815 ;   m.    Miss 
Mason,  and  had  :  i.  J.  B.  Cabell  ^ ;  ii.  Patrick^; 
iii.  William^  J  iv.  Marion^;  and  v.  Mary  Ann  ^ 
Henry. 
ii.  A.  Spotswood  ^  Henry,  d.  unmarried, 
iii.  Patrick^  Henry  (b.  1819) ;  M.  D. ;  m.  Clara  Yan- 
cey ;  no  issue. 
iv.  John  Robert^  Henry,  m.  EHzabeth,  daughter  of 
W.  H.  Edwards,  of  Pittsylvania  County,  Va., 
and    had :    i.    Sarah  ® ;    ii.    EHzabeth  ^ ;     iii. 
"Gillie"*^;  iv.  Maria  Antoinette^;  v.  Daniel 
E.*^    (b.    1862,   killed   on   raih-oad    February, 
1895) ;  and  vi.  Patrick  ^  Henry. 


532  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

V.  William  Lewis  Cabell  ^  Henry,  d.  unmarried, 
vi.  Laura  ^  Henry,  d.  young.  ^ 
466.    vii.  Sarah  ^  Henry,  m.  Dr.  George  Cabell  Carrington 
(448). 
viii.  Paulina  ^    Henry,   m.   Bartlett  Jones.     Issue :    i. 
Cabell  Henry  ^  Jones. 
ix.  Marion  F.  C.^  Henry,  m.  Samuel  Tyree,  of  Lynch- 
burg. 
X.  Maria  Antoinette  ^  Henry,  m.  Andrew  Hambrick, 
of  Roanoke  ;  no  issue. 


107.  George    Kulin  "*    Cabell,    born ;    Washington 

College,  1814-1815 ;   attorney  at  law,   Amherst  County ; 
married,  in  1829,  Eliza  Garland  (died  early  in  1841),  daugh- 
ter of  Hon.  David  S.  Garland  ;  died  in  October,  1873,  at 
the  residence  of  his  son  in  Philadelphia.     Issue  :  — 
i.  Marion  F.^  Cabell,  b.  August  21,  1830 ;  d.  February 

17,  1833. 
ii.  George  Kuhn^  CabeU,  Jr.,  b.  1833;  M.  D.  University 
of  Virginia,  1851 ;  physician  in  Virginia  and  New 
Orleans ;  surgeon  in  Gen.  Walker's  Nicaraguan 
army ;  d.  of  yellow  fever,  at  Greytown,  1857. 
iii.  AHce  Winston  ^  Cabell,  b.  1835  ;  d.  unmarried  in  1858, 
at  the  residence  of  her  uncle,  Landon  Cabell  Garland, 
in  Alabama,  the  present  chancellor  of  Vanderbilt 
University. 
iv.  Lewis  Breckinridge  ^  Cabell,  b.  in  January,  1841,  is  now 
the  only  surviving  child;  educated  at  Westwood 
High  School,  Amherst  Academy,  etc.  ;  entered 
C.  S.  A.  as  private  in  Lynchbiu-g  Home  Guard  April 
24,  1861 ;  lieutenant  Company  H,  19th  Virginia  In- 
fantry, 1861-1862  ;  member  Company  E,  2d  Vir- 
ginia Cavalry,  1862-1865.  After  the  war,  studied 
law,  but  did  not  practice  it ;  was  a  commissioner  in 
chancery  at  Amherst  C.  H.,  until  1872,  when  he  re- 
moved to  Philadelphia  ;  went  to  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
late  in  1873;  pubHshed  the  "Brooklyn  People,"  a 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  533 

daily  paper  ;  has  been  for  a  number  of  years  a  broker 
and  dealer  in  securities  of  New  York,  residing  in 
Brooklyn  and  in  Jersey  City.  He  m.  in  the  autumn 
of  1864,  at  Amherst  C.  H.,  Willien  Price  Read, 
daughter  of  WilHam  Price  Read,  of  Bedford,  by  his 
wife,  Jane  Irving  Powell,  daughter  of  Dr.  James 
Powell,  of  Amherst,  by  his  wife,  Mildred  Irving, 
daughter  of  Charles  Irving,  Sr.,  the  emigrant  from 
Scotland  (who  was  of  the  same  family  as  Washington 
Irving,  of  New  York),  by  his  wife,  Mildred  Jordan, 
daughter  of  Matthew  Jordan,  the  brother  of  Col. 
Samuel  Jordan,  of  "  The  Seven  Islands." 
Their  children  are  :  — 

i.  George  Kuhn  ^  Cabell,  b.  1865  in  Virginia ;  edu- 
cated in  Brooklyn  ;  is  now  in  the  dry  goods 
importing  business. 
ii.  James  Powell  ^  Cabell,  b.  1867  in  Virginia ;  ed- 
ucated in  Brooklyn  ;  an   adjuster  of  marine 
losses. 
iii.  Edmund  Gaines  Read  ^  CabeU,  b.  1868  in  Vir- 
ginia ;    a   publisher ;    m.,    in    1890,    Anstes 
Dorinda  Van  Campen  ;  d.    1892,   leaving  no 
issue. 
iv.  Walter  Carrington  ^  Cabell,  b.  1870  in  Virginia  ; 
educated  in  Brooklyn   and  Jersey  City ;  now 
studying  law. 
V.  Alice  Winston  '^  Cabell,  b.  1872  in  Virginia ;  ed- 
ucated in  Brooklyn  and  Jersey  City ;  "  yet  in 
the  hands  of  teachers." 
vi.  Lewis  Breckinridge^  CabeU,  b.  1874,  in  Brook- 
lyn, 
vii.  WilHam  Price  ^  Cabell,  b.  1876  in  Brooklyn, 
viii.  Henry  ^  Cabell,  b.  1879  in  Brooklyn. 
ix.  Irving  Garland^  Cabell,  b.  1883  in  Virginia. 


108.  AKce*  Cabell,  married,  November  15,  1817,  Walter 
C.  Carrington,  of  Halifax  (born  March  4,  1794 ;  at  Wash- 


534  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

ington  College,  1814),  son  of  Judge  Paul  Carrington,  Jr. 
(born  September  20,  1764 ;  died  January  8,  1816),  member 
of  the  House  of  Delegates  of  Virginia,  etc.  ;  married,  Au- 
gust 24,  1785,  Mildred  HoweU  Coles  (born  May  15,  1769 ; 
died  April  24,  1840),  daughter  of  Col.  Walter  Coles  (born 
November  14, 1739,  in  St.  Paul's  Parish,  Hanover  County ; 
died  November  7,  1780,  at  his  seat,  "  Mildendo,"  in  Hali- 
fax County) ;  married,  February  28,  1767,  Mikbed  Light- 
foot  (born  at  Sandy  Point,  in  Charles  City  County,  Feb- 
ruary 11,  1752 ;  died  May  1,  1799),  daughter  of  Wilham 
Lightfoot  and  his  wife,  Mildred  Howell.  Walter  Coles 
was  the  son  of  John  Coles,  a  merchant  of  Richmond,  who 
emigrated  from  "  Enniscorthy,"  Ireland,  by  his  wife,  Mary 
(1718-1755),  daughter  of  Isaac  Winston,  of  Hanover  County, 
Va. 

108.  Mrs.  Alice  *  Cabell  Carrington  died,  leaving  four 
surviving  children  :  — 

447.  i.  Edward  Coles  ^  Carrington. 

448.  ii.  George  Cabell  Carrington. 

449.  iii.  Paul  Jones  Carrington. 

450.  iv.  Walter  Coles  Carrington. 

447.  Edward  C.^  Carrington  married  (first)  Mary  Cole- 
man, of    WiUiamsburg,    Va.      She  died,  leaving  an    only 
child  :  — 
i.  Thomas^  Carrington. 

447.  Edward  Coles  ^  Carrington  has  married  twice  since  : 
(second  wife)  Miss  Fowlkes,  of  Arkansas,  and  (third)  Miss 
Cockerill. 

448.  George  CabeU '  Carrington,  M.  D.  (died  in  1880), 
married  Sarah  Winston  ^  Henry  (446),  and  had  issue 
six :  — 

i.  John  P.  Metteaux^  Carrington,  m.  Sarah  Frances  Foot. 
Issue  :  i.  Mildred  Coles  ^  Carrington. 

ii.  Susan  Love^  Carrington,  m.  Rev.  A.  Y.  Hundley. 
Issue  :  i.  Alice  ^ ;  ii.  G.  Cabell  ^ ;  iii.  Paul  Carring- 
ton '^ ;  and  iv.  Elijah  D.^  Himdley. 

iii.  Charles  Craddock  ^  Carrington,  m.   Sarah  H.  French. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  535 

Issue:  i.  George  Cabell  ^ ;  ii.  Margaret;  iii.  Sarah  ^; 
iv.  Marcellus  '^ ;  and  v.   Charles  RJ  Carrington. 

iv.  Richard  Bruce  ^  Carrington,  m.  Ida  Harrison. 

V.  Sarah  Cabell  ^  Carrington,  m.  J.  W.  F.  Beale.  Issue  : 
i.  G.  Ferdinand^;  ii.  Patrick  H.^;  iii.  WilHam  Win- 
ston^; iv.  Sue  C.^;  and  v.  PauUna  D.^  i?e«?e. 

vi.  Walter  Coles  ^  Carrington,  m.  Nelly  Herbert  Boughan. 
Issue  :  i.  Nelly  Herbert  ^ ;  and  ii.  Walter  Spotswood  ^ 
Carrington. 

449.  Paul  Jones  ^  Carrington,  M.  D.,  married,  in  1845, 
Margaret  A.,  daughter  of  Judge  Lucas  Powell  Thompson, 
of  Staunton,  Va.  She  died  in  1887,  having  had  issue 
nine  :  — 

i.  AHce  CabeU  ^  Carrington  ;  d.  young, 
ii.  Lucas  Thompson  ^  Carrington  ;  d.  young, 
iii.  Susan  Cary  Carrington. 
iv.  John  M.  Carrington. 
V.  Paul  Julian  Carrington. 
vi.  CaroHne  T.  Carrington. 
vii.  Eleanor  S.  Carrington  ;  d.  in  1893. 
viii.  Mary  Love  Carrington. 
ix.  AHce  Lee  Carrington. 

450.  Walter  Coles  ^  Carrington,  M.  D.  ;  married  (first) 
Isadora  Meredith  Myrick.  She  died  s.  p.,  and  he  married 
(second)  Mary  Jett,  and  had  :  — 

i.  Walter  Coles  ^  Carrington,  Jr. 


109.  John  Breckinridge  ^  Cabell  was  a  doctor ;  removed 
from  Lynchburg  to  Lewisburg,  W.  Va. ;  married,  in  1826, 
Martha  Bickerton  Bouldin,  daughter  of  Judge  Thomas  Tyler 
Bouldin,  M.  C.  (who  rose  to  announce  the  death  of  his  con- 
stituent, John  Randolph  of  Roanoke  (1834),  and  fell  dead 
in  Congress  Hall),  by  his  first  wife,  Nannie  Lewis  (died 
1823),  of  Mecklenburg  (see  under  No.  453).  Mrs.  J.  B. 
Cabell  died  in  1862.  Her  husband  was  living  in  1879. 
The  date  of  his  death  is  not  known  to  me.  They  had 
issue :  — 


536  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

451.  i.  Sarah  Winston  ^  Cabell. 

452.  ii.  Anne  Bouldin  ^  Cabell. 

453.  iii.  Paulina  Henry  ^  Cabell. 

454.  iv.  Joanna  Tyler  ^  Cabell. 

V.  Marion  Fontaine  ^  Cabell,  a  remarkably  intellectual 
woman,  who  has  devoted  her  life  to  teaching. 

455.  vi.  Alice  Winston  ^  Cabell. 

vii.  John  Jordan  ^  Cabell ;  d.  infant, 
viii.  John  B.^  Cabell,  Jr.,  m.  Mrs.  Emma  Loving,  wee 
Scott,    and    has   an    only  child,  —  a  daughter, 
Norma.*^ 
ix.  EHzabeth   Cralle  ^  CabeU,  m.  Charles  L.  Da\ds,  of 
Greenbrier,  W.  Va.,  and  d.  soon  after,  leaving 
no  children. 
X.  Catharine  Douglas  ^  CabeU  ;  d.  unmarried. 

451.  Sarah  Winston  ^  Cabell,  born  1828 ;  hving ;  of 
rare  musical  talent ;  married  Andrew  Stuart,  of  Green- 
brier, son  of  Lewis  Stuart  and  his  wdfe,  Sarah  Le^vis,  and 
grandson  of  Col.  John  Stuart,  one  of  the  pioneers  and 
first  settlers  of  Greenbrier  County,  W.  Va.  "Andrew  Stu- 
art Hves  (1878)  at  his  grandfather's  old  residence,  and  the 
old  first  clerk's  office  stands  in  the  yard  in  a  state  of  pretty 
good  preservation."     No  children. 

452.  Anne  Bouldin  ^  Cabell  (living) ;  married  Hon.  Albert 
Rust,  of  Arkansas,  a  native  of  Vu-ginia.  He  emigrated 
about  1839  to  Arkansas ;  served  many  years  in  the  legisla- 
ture of  that  State  ;  was  for  two  terms  a  member  of  Con- 
gress (the  first  in  Pierce's  administration,  the  last  in 
Buchanan's) ;  member  of  the  Provisional  Congress  of  the  C. 
S.  in  1861;  soon  resigned  and  entered  the  C.  S.  A.  as  colo- 
nel in  the  3d  Arkansas  Regiment ;  was  promoted  to  briga- 
dier-general ;  after  the  war,  settled  as  a  planter  near  Little 
Rock,  where  he  died  about  1870.  He  was  a  son  of  William 
Rust,  the  son  of  Capt.  George  Rust,  of  Fauquier  County, 
Va.  The  family  came  from  England,  and  settled  first  in 
Westmoreland  County,  Va. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  537 

Anne  B.^  Cabell  and  Hon.  Albert  Rust  had  issue  :  — 
i.  Julia  *' ;  m.  John  Tutwiler.     He   d.  s.  p.     His  widow 

now  resides  in  Philadelphia, 
ii.  Pauhne  Carrington  Rust. 

iii.  Breckinridge  ^  Rust,  deceased.  He  m.  Cornelia  Borst, 
of  Luray,  and  had  four  children :  i.  Albert  ^ ;  ii. 
Peter  Borst^;  iii.  GeorgieB.^;  and  iv.  Breckinridge 
CaheW  Bust. 

453.  Paulina  Henry  ^  Cabell,  married  Thomas  Tyler 
Bouldin  Carrington,  of  "  Spring  Hill,"  Ark.  ;  at  Wash- 
ington College,  1844-1845  ;  editor  ;  farmer ;  killed  in  a 
street  fight  in  1859 ;  son  of  Robert  Carrington  (born  March 
2,  1802 ;  died  in  February,  1845,  in  Arkansas  ;  youngest 
son  of  Judge  Paul  Carrington  the  elder,  and  said  to  have 
been  the  only  man  of  whom  John  Randolph  of  Roanoke 
was  afraid  ;  he  once  owned  the  farm  adjoining  "  Roanoke  ") 
by  his  wife,  Joanna  Bouldin,  daughter  of  Judge  Thomas 
Tyler  Bouldin  (died  1834),  son  of  Wood  Bouldin  (son  of 
Col.  Thomas  Bouldin,  of  Charlotte,  and  his  wife,  Nancy 
Clark)  by  his  wife,  Joanna  Tyler,  sister  of  Gov.  John 
Tyler,  aunt  of  President  John  Tyler,  and  daughter  of  John 
Tyler,  marshal  of  the  colony,  by  his  wife,  Anne,  daughter 
of  Dr.  Contesse,  or  Comptesse,  a  Huguenot. 

453.  Mrs.  Paulina  Henry  ^  Cabell  Carrington  died,  leav- 
ing an  only  child  :  — 

i.  Mattie  *^  Carrington,  who  became  a  Roman  Catholic,  en- 
tered a  convent,  and  died  in  Baltimore,  Md. 

454.  Joanna  Tyler  ^  Cabell,  married  David  Holmes  Mor- 
ton, son  of  John  Morton  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth  A.  Le 
Grand,  and  had  issue  :  — 

i.  William  Scott  ^  Morton,  k.  by  cowboys  in  Texas. 
456.      ii.  Quinn  Morton. 

iii.  Breckinridge  Morton  ;  d.  infant. 
iv.  David  Morton. 

V.  Joanna  Cabell  Morton,  m.  Benjamin  Hurxthall, 
of  "  Ronceverte,"  and  has  a  daughter. 


538  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

vi.  John  Morton. 

vii.  Breckinridge  C.  Morton  ;  d.  young, 
viii.  Elizabeth  A.  Morton. 
456.  Quinn  ^  Morton,  married   Fannie  Hurxthall,  daugh- 
ter of  Ferdinand  Hurxthall  and  his  wife,  Helen  Finley. 
Issue  :  — 
i.  Helen  Finley^  Morton, 
ii.  David  Holmes  ^  Morton, 
iii.  Joanna  Cabell^  Morton, 
iv.  Ferdinand  HurxthalF  Morton. 
V.  Mary  Whitaker^  Morton, 
vi.  Fannie  HurxthalP  Morton. 

455.  Alice  Winston  ^  Cabell,  married  William  A.  Withers, 
son  of  Dr.  Robert  W.  Withers  and  his  wife,  Susan  D.  Alex- 
ander, of  Campbell  County,  Va.     Issue  :  — 

i.  Robert  Enoch  ^  Withers,  m.  Mary  Floyd  Price  (daugh- 
ter of  Daniel  M.  and  Elizabeth  Jones  Price).    Issue : 
i.  Alice  Winston^;  ii.  Daniel  Saunders^;  iii.  Walter 
Hubert  ^ ;  iv.  Minnie  ^ ;  v.  Annie  ^ ;  and  vi.  EHza  ^ 
Withers. 
ii.  Martha  Breckinridge  ^  Withers,  m.  Parham  Felix  Price 
(son  of  William  and  Susan  Black  Price).     Issue  :  i. 
Parham  '^ ;  ii.  Withers  Price. 
iii.  Jennet  Thornton  ^  Withers,  m.  Robert  Ernest  Garbee 
(son   of  Henry   Albert   and   Lucy  Powell  Garbee). 
Issue  :  i.  Robert  Ernest  ^ ;  ii.  Maude  ^ ;    iii.  Marian 
Holmes^;  iv.  EUa  Maysie^;  v.  Edwin ^;  vi.  Mattie^ 
Garbee. 
iv.  William  Alexander  ^  Withers,  Jr.,  m.  Velita  E.  Hunter 
(daughter  of  Thomas   and    Sarah    Jones   Hunter). 
Issue :    i.    Elizabeth    Winston  ^ ;    and    ii.   William 
Eldridge^  Withers. 
V.  Marion  Cabell^  Withers,  m.  James  W.  Lyndsay  (son 
of  J.  W.  and  Frances  Campbell  Lyndsay).     Issue : 
i.  Fannie  ^ ;  and  ii.  Winnie  ^  Lyndsay. 
vi.  Joanna  Holmes  ^  Withers,  m.  Charles  E.  Phillips  (son 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  539 

of  Joseph  E.  and  Sallie  Butler^  Phillips).     Issue:  i. 

Nannie  Ogden  ^  Phillips, 
vii.  Walter  Breckinridge  ^  Withers, 
viii.  John  Douglas  ^  Withers. 
ix.  Sallie  Stuart  ^  Withers,  m.  Henry  Clarke  Winston,  son 

of  Charles  and  Elizabeth  Alexander  Winston. 


23.   FREDERICK^    CABELL'S    DESCENDANTS. 

113.  Frederick  Mortimer  *  Cabell,  born  at  "  Struman," 
December  15,  1802 ;  completed  his  education  at  Washing- 
ton College,  1824;  married,  in  1846,  Clara  Hawes  Cole- 
man, of  Nelson  County,  Va.  (daughter  of  John  J.  Coleman 
and  his  wife,  Catharine  Hawes,  who  moved  to  Kentucky); 
farmer  ;  member  of  the  Virginia  House  of  Delegates  from 
Nelson  County,  1844-1847;  member  of  the  Virginia  senate, 
1852-1854;  member  of  the  Virginia  Convention,  1861;  died 
at  Struman,  March  2,  1873.     Issue  :  — 

i.  Kate  Winston  °  Cabell ;  d.  young, 
ii.  F.  Ivanhoe  ^  Cabell,  b.  October  8,  1848 ;  engi- 
neer, maintenance  of   way.  Eastern  Division 
C.  &  0.  Railway  ;  unmarried. 

457.  iii.  Waller  Ravenswood  ^  CabeU. 

iv.  Coleman  J.^  Cabell,  b.  1853;  justice  of  the  peace, 
etc. ;  unmarried. 

458.  v.  Richard  Hawes  ^  Cabell. 

vi.  Aylett  J.^  Cabell,  b.  1858  ;  M.  D.,  University  of 
Virginia  ;  physician,  Norwood,  Nelson  County, 
Va. ;  m.,  April  29,  1895,  Adelaide  Wilhelmina, 
daughter  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  H.  Angelo  Nash. 

vii.  Susan  Taylor  ^  Cabell ;  d.  young. 

459.  viii.  Clara  Pauline^  CabeU. 

457.  Waller   R.^  Cabell,  born  1850;  farmer   and  mer- 
chant ;  married,  at  the  residence  of  A.  S.  Watson,  Esq.,  by 
Rev.  Mr.  Wailes,  to  Mattie  W.  Anderson,  of  Nelson  County, 
Va.     Issue  four  :  — 
i.  Clara  Louise  ^  Cabell. 


540  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR   KIN 

ii.  Henrietta  Virginia  Cabell. 
iii.  James  Anderson  Cabell. 
iv.  Frederick  M.  Cabell. 

4:58.  Richard  H.^  Cabell,  born  1856 ;  attorney  at  law ; 
married,  June   25,  1884,  Louisa  Withers,  daughter   of  the 
late  Rev.  Edmund  Withers.     They  reside  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
Utah,  and  have  :  — 
i.  Richard  H.^  CabeU. 
ii.  Clara  Winston  ^  Cabell. 

459.  Clara  Pauline^  Cabell  (called  "Jessie"),  born  in 
October,  1862  ;  married,  December  19,  1888,  Rev.  George 
Braxton  Taylor,  D.  D.  (son  of  Rev.  George  B.  Taylor,  the 
Baptist  missionary  in  Rome,  Italy,  by  his  wife,  Susan  S. 
Braxton,  a  descendant  from  Col.  William  Mayo  and  Hon. 
Carter  Braxton) ;  died  August  31,  1893,  leaving :  — 
i.  George  Cabell  ^  Taylor. 


114.  Edmund  Winston^  Cabell,  born  July  12,  1808; 
Washington  College,  1826-1827 ;  William  and  Mary  Col- 
lege, 1828-1829 ;  farmer  and  lawyer ;  married  (first),  in  May, 
1830,  Lucy  J.  Gait,  daughter  of  Dr.  Gait,  of  the  Williams- 
burg Lunatic  Hospital.  She  died,  leaving  no  issue.  He 
married,  late  in  life,  Elizabeth  Wright,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam Wright,  of  Buckingham  County,  Va.,  and  died  in  June, 
1887,  leaving  issue  by  her  :  — 

i.  Hortense  Winston  ^  Cabell,  m.  Charles  Fields,  of  Buck- 
ingham County,  Va. 

ii.  Josephine  De  Beauharnis^  Cabell, 
iii.  Edmund  Winston  °  Cabell. 


115.  Clifford^  Cabell,  born  August  17,  1810;  Washing- 
ton College,  1826-1827 ;  graduated  from  the  Medical  De- 
partment of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  1832 ;  mar- 
ried, December  5,  1833,  Margaret  Couch  Anthony ;  farmer 
and  physician  in  Buckingham  and  Nelson ;  died  September 
18, 1871.  His  wife,  Margaret  C.  Anthony  (born  in  Janu- 
ary, 1814),  wrote  "  Sketches  and  Recollections  of  Lynchburg 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  541 

by  the  Oldest  Inhabitant,"  Richmond,  1858 ;  contributed 
to  "  The  Southern  Literary  Messenger  "  and  other  periodi- 
cals. She  died  Sunday  morning,  October  29,  1882,  at 
"  Fernley,"  her  residence  in  Buckingham  County,  where 
she  was  buried  the  following  day.  She  was  a  daughter  of 
Christopher  Anthony,  Esq.,  attorney  at  law,  of  Lynchburg, 
Va.     Issue :  — 

460.  i.  Evelyn  Carter  Byrd^  Cabell. 

461.  ii.  Mary   Washington^    Cabell,  m.  J.   Cabell  Early 

(477). 

462.  iii.  Alice  Winston  ^  Cabell. 

iv.  Lucy  Galt^  Cabell,  b.  1852;  d.  1856. 
V.  CKfford^  Cabell,  b.  September  18,  1854;  m.  Sallie 
Logan,  of  Philadelphia.  They  reside  in  Chi- 
cago, 111. 
460.  Evelyn  Carter  Byrd^  Cabell,  born  May  1,  1844; 
married  in  October,  1862,  William  Russell  Robinson.  They 
reside  at  "  Colleton,"  in  Nelson  County,  Va.  Mrs.  Robin- 
son is  now  president  of  the  Virginia  Society  of  Colonial 
Dames.  [Her  husband,  WilUam  Russell  Robinson,  is  a  son 
of  the  late  Wirt  Robinson,  of  Richmond,  Va.  (by  his  wife, 
Rebecca  Keim,  of  Philadelphia),  son  of  Anthony  Robinson, 
born  1770,  died  1851  (by  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Russell,  1778- 
1852,  daughter  of  William  Russell,  for  a  long  time  clerk  of 
James  City  County,  Va.) ;  son  of  Anthony  Robinson,  of 
York  County,  Va.,  born  1737,  died  1776  (by  his  second 
wife,  Mary  Philhps,  1743-1775) ;  son  of  Anthony  Robin- 
son, born  1711,  died  1737  (by  his  wife,  Mary  Kirby) ;  son 
of  John  Robinson,  born  1685,  died  1737  (by  his  wife, 
Frances  Wade,  who  died  October  13,  1721;  daughter  of 
Armigall  Wade,  of  York  County,  Va.,  said  to  have  de- 
scended from  Armigall  Wade,  of  York  County,  England, — 
"the  British  Columbus"^);  son  of  Anthony  Robinson,  born 
in  York  County,  Va.,  1662,  died  1727  (by  his  wife,  Mary 
Starkey) ;  son  of  John  Robinson,  the  emigrant  from  Eng- 
land, who  died  March  1,  1688,  in  York  County,  Va.] 
Issue  :  — 

1  See  The  Genesis  of  the  United  States,  p.  1039. 


542  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

463.    i.  Wirt'  Robinson. 

ii.  Clifford  Cabell^  Robinson. 
463.  Wirf^  Robinson,  born  October  16,  1864,  at  Fern- 
ley,  Buckingham  County,  Va. ;  entered  West  Point  July  1, 
1883 ;  graduated  June  11,  1887 ;  commissioned  second 
lieutenant,  4th  U.  S.  Artillery ;  promoted  first  lieutenant, 
August  1,  1893 ;  now  on  detail  at  Harvard  University ; 
author  of  "  A  Flying  Trip  to  the  Tropics  "  (an  ornithologi- 
cal visit,  in  the  year  1892).  He  married,  April  7,  1890,  at 
Providence,  R.  I.,  Anita  Alice  Mathilde  Phinney  Hender- 
son, daughter  of  Theodore  W.  Phinney,  of  Newport,  R.  I., 
and  has  two  children  :  — 
i.  Alice  Evelyn  Rose  ^  Robinson,  b.  February  7,  1891,  at 

Fort  Adams,  Newport,  R.  I. 
ii.  Wii-t  RusseU^  Robinson,  b.  May  3,  1893,  at  Fort  Mc- 

Pherson,  near  Atlanta,  Ga. 

462.  AHce  Winston  ^  Cabell,  born  June  23,  1849 ;  mar- 
ried Charles  T.  Palmer,  of  Richmond,  Va.  They  now 
reside  at  "  Soldier's  Joy,"  in  Nelson,  and  have  had  issue : 
i.  Margaret  A.'^ ;  ii.  AHce  W.  C ;  and  iii.  CHfford  C.  R.' 
Palmer.     The  last-named  is  dead. 


116.  Pauhna  Virginia*  Cabell,  born  July  15,  1812; 
married,  at  the  residence  of  her  father,  October  11,  1831, 
to  John  Ware  Mosby,  and  died  at  her  residence,  "  Valley 
Farm,"  May  23,  1874.  [Her  husband  (born  June  30, 
1804;  died  December  28,  1875,  at  "Valley  Farm,"  and 
there  buried  by  her  side)  was  a  son  of  John  H.  Mosby 
(born  1765 ;  married,  April  11,  1799,  Jane  Ware,  of  Gooch- 
land), son  of  Daniel  Mosby .^]  Issue  :  — 
i.  Chfford  Cabell^  Mosby,  d.  infant. 
464.    ii.  AHce  Jane^  Mosby. 

iii.  Frederick  Cabell  ^  Mosby,  d.  infant, 
iv.  Mary  Winston  ^  Mosby,  d.  young. 
V.  Ella  Floyd'  Mosby,  b.  at  "Fernley,"  August  29, 

*  See  Virginia  Cousins,  by  Dr.  G.  Brown  Goode,  p.  221. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  543 

1846 ;  authoress ;  has  written  an  extended  essay 
called  "  Ideal   Life,"  several  novels  and  novel- 
ettes, and  sundry  articles  for  New  Church  mag- 
azines and  other  periodicals. 
vi.  Carrington  Winston  ^  Mosby,  b.  at  "  Valley  Farm," 
September  30,  1849 ;  m.  Cora  Lemmon  Clark, 
daughter  of  Dr.  A.  I.  Clark,  of  Lynchburg,  Va. 
He  is  in  business  in  Lynchburg. 
464.  Alice  Jane^  Mosby,  born  in  New  Market,  Nelson 
County,   Va.,    July   8,   1836 ;    married,    at   Valley  Farm, 
January  10,  1867,  Dr.  John  Flagg  Gardner  [educated  at 
Harvard    University,  Cambridge,  Mass.,  son  of  Dr.  John 
Flagg  Gardner,  of  Boston,  the  son  of  Dr.  James  Gardner  (a 
graduate    of   Harvard),  by   his  wife,    a    daughter    of   Dr. 
John  Flagg,  of  Massachusetts].     Issue  :  — 
i.  Virginia  Cabell^  Gardner,  b.  at  "  Valley  Farm,"  Feb- 
ruary 5,  1870. 
ii.  Helen  Carleton  ^  Gardner,  b.  at  "  Valley  Farm,"  August 

1,  1872. 
iii.  John  Flagg  Churchill  *^  Gardner,  b.  at  "  Meadow  Brook," 
July  1,  1875. 


117.  Louis  Warrington*  Cabell,  born  June  12,  1814 j 
completed  education  at  University  of  Virginia,  1837-1839 ; 
inherited  "Green  Hill;"  married,  July  8,  1841,  Anna 
Maria  Perkins,  daughter  of  George  Perkins  and  his  wife, 
Eliza  Richardson,  of  Cumberland  County,  Va.  Mr.  Cabell 
was  a  farmer,  but  he  was  also  the  editor  and  owner  of  a 
newspaper  for  a  time,  and  was  a  candidate  to  represent  this 
district  in  Congress.  He  died  October  7,  1890,  and  his 
wife  in  September,  1893.     Issue  :  — 

i.  George  Perkins^  Cabell,  d.  infant. 

465.  ii.  Frederick  Ernest^  Cabell. 

iii.  George  Perkins'  Cabell,  b.  1846  ;  d.  1850. 
iv.  Anna  Maria  ^  Cabell,  b.  January  26,  1848;  d. 
September  17,  1894. 

466.  V.  John  Breckinridge'  Cabell. 


544  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

vi.  Lewis  Winston^  Cabell,  d.  infant, 
vii.  Lewis  Winston  ^  Cabell,  b.  February  13,  1855 ; 

li\'ing ;  farmer,  etc. 
viii.  William  Perkins^  Cabell,  d.  infant. 

ix.  Eliza  Cralle  ^  Cabell,  d.  infant. 

465.  Frederick  Ernest^  Cabell,  born  March  15,  1844; 
served  in  a  Cumberland  County  cavalry  company  (Capt. 
Perkins),  C.  S.  A. ;  education  completed  in  Freiberg,  Ger- 
many, after  the  war,  where  he  married  Johanna  Harnisch. 
They  now  live  in  Grant  County,  Ore.,  and  have  one  child : 
i.  Johanna  Camilla*^  Cabell. 

466.  John  Breckinridge^  Cabell,  born  January  26, 1850; 
educated  at  Norwood  High  School ;  married,  in  Baker  City, 
Ore.,  Bessie  Reynolds.  They  reside  in  Grant  County,  Ore., 
and  have  one  child  :  — 

i.  Rudolph  Warrington  ^  Cabell. 


24.  DR.  JOHN  J.^  Cabell's  descendants. 

118.  Judith  Scott*  Cabell,  born  September  3,  1808; 
married,  in  Lynchburg,  February  5,  1829,  Richard  K. 
Cralle,  and  died  in  spring  of  1835.  [Her  husband  was  a 
relative  of  J.  C.  Calhoun,  and  his  literary  executor.  He 
pubhshed  the  "  Life  and  Works  of  John  C.  Calhoun,"  New 
York,  1853-1855,  in  six  volumes.  "  Previously  an  editor  in 
Washington,  D.  C,  and  a  Swedenborgian  clergyman.  Au- 
thor of  some  New  Church  publications."  He  died  in  Vir- 
ginia, June  10,  1864.  He  was  "  the  eldest  son  of  Richard 
K.  and  Lucy  (Jones)  Cralle,  of  Mecklenburg  County,  Va. 
The  former  descended  of  the  Cralles,  Kenners,  and  Balls, 
of  Northumberland  and  Westmoreland  counties,  and  the 
latter,  a  granddaughter  of  Peter  Jones,  of  Dinwiddie,  for 
whom  Col.  WilHam  Byrd  named  Petersburg."]  Issue :  — 
467.    i.  Mary  CabelP  Cralle. 

ii.  Ada  Scott  Cralle,  d.  infant. 

467.  Mary  Cabell^  Cralle,  born  March  17,  1830;  mar- 
ried, December  12,  1850,  Nathaniel  Henry  Campbell ;  died 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  545 

December  6,  1894.  [Her  husband  (born  December  12, 
1824 ;  died  January  9,  1867 ;  B.  L.,  University  of  Vir- 
ginia, 1845 ;  attorney  at  law,  Bedford  County)  was  the  son 
of  Robert  Campbell,  of  Bedford,  and  his  wife,  Nancy  Terry. 
Robert  Campbell  was  a  grandson  of  WilHam  Campbell,  who 
sold  his  estates  in  Prince  Edward  County  and  purchased 
from  Richard  Randolph  (executor)  a  part  of  Rev.  William 
Stith's  estate  in  Bedford,  about  1761,  and  removed  to  that 
county.  Nancy  Terry  was  a  daughter  of  "  Maj.  William 
Terry,  mihtary  lieutenant  of  Bedford  County  in  1794,"  by 
his  wife,  Jane  Smith,  daughter  of  Guy  Smith,  high  sheriff 
of  Bedford  (by  his  wife,  Anna  Hopkins,  a  sister  to  the  wife 
of  Col.  Joseph  Cabell),  son  of  Bowker  Smith,  who  removed 
from  Albemarle  County  to  Bedford,  whose  will  was  witnessed 
by  Col.  Joseph  Cabell,  of  Buckingham.]     Issue :  — 

468.  i.  James  Laurence^  Campbell. 

469.  ii.  Richard  Kenna^  Campbell. 

iii.  Judith  Scott  ^  Campbell,  b.  February  11,  1855. 
iv.  Susan  "^  Campbell,  b.  April  17,  1856. 
V.  Henry  Terry  *^  Campbell,  b.  June  19,  1858. 
vi.  Maria  Antoinette  Gelston  ^  Campbell,  d.  infant, 
vii.  John  Cabell  ^  Campbell,  d.  young, 
viii.  Robert  Lee  ^  Campbell,  b.  May  11,  1866. 

468.  James  Laurence*^  Campbell,  born  September  21, 
1851 ;  B.  L.,  University  of  Vu-ginia,  1872  ;  lawyer  in  Bal- 
timore, Md.,  and  now  of  Bedford  City,  Va. ;  married  Lilian 
Bowyer  [daughter  of  Dr.  Thomas  M.  Bowyer,  of  Bedford 
City  (and  his  wife,  Catherine  Burwell,  daughter  of  William 
M.  Burwell,  editor,  author,  etc.,  and  his  wife,  Frances  Cal- 
laway Steptoe),  son  of  Henry  M.  Bowyer,  attorney  at  law, 
and  his  wife,  Sarah  Preston.  See  the  "  Preston  Family," 
by  John  Mason  Brown].     Issue:  — 

i.  Thomas  Bowyer^  Campbell. 
ii.  James  Laurence^  Campbell,  Jr. 
iii.  George  W.  Bagby^  Campbell. 
iv.  Lilian  Preston^  Campbell. 

469.  Richard  Kenna  ^  Campbell,  b.  August   7,    1853 ; 


546  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

lawyer,  farmer,  editor;  is  now  connected  with  tlie  Ameri- 
can consulate,  St.  John's,  New  Brunswick.  His  home  is  in 
Bedford  City,  Va. ;  married,  June  7,  1876,  at  "  Liberty 
Hall,"  Frances  Grace  Cabell  (born  July  16, 1852),  daughter 
of  N.  F.  Cabell,  Esq.  (141),  and  has:  — 

i.  Nathaniel  Henry  '  Campbell. 

ii.  Anna  Barraud^  Campbell, 
iii.  Phihp  Barraud^  Campbell. 


119.  Sarah  Winston*  Cabell,  born  July  30,  1812;  mar- 
ried, in  Lynchburg,  March  16,  1830,  Henry  Childs  Ward, 
of  Pittsylvania  County,  Va.  He  died  in  Charleston,  S.  C, 
of  consumption,  February  20,  1835,  aged  27.  She  died  in 
Lynchburg,  October  21,  1843.     Issue  :  — 

470.  i.  John  CabelP  Ward. 

ii.  Richard  Scott  °  Ward,  d.  young. 

471.  iii.  Sarah  Henry  ^  Ward. 

470.  John  CabelP  Ward,  b.  March  7,  1832  ;  married,  in 
Bedford  County,  August  6,  1856,  EUzabeth  Roy  Scott ; 
died  March  7,  1866.     Issue  :  — 

i.  Sarah  Scott  ^  Ward,  d.  infant, 
ii.  Elizabeth  Cabell^  Ward,  d.  young. 

471.  Sarah  Henry  ^  Ward,  born  August  21,  1834;  mar- 
ried, in  Sparta,  Ga.,  March  2,  1859,  William  Armistead 
Burwell  [son  of  Armistead  Burwell,  of  "  Waverley,"  Frank- 
lin County,  Va.,  son  of  John  Spotswood  Burwell  (1776- 
1854),  son  of  Col.  Lewis  Burwell  (1745-1800),  of  Stoneland, 
Mecklenburg  County,  Va.,  who  "  commanded  a  regiment  in 
the  war  of  the  Revolution,  and  served  foui-teen  years  in  the 
Virginia  legislature,"  by  his  first  wife,  Anne  Spotswood, 
daughter  of  Col.  John  and  Mary  (Dandridge)  Spotswood, 
and  granddaughter  of  Gov.  Alexander  Spotswood].    Issue : 

i.  Mary  Armistead*^  Burwell,  b.  November  29,  1860. 

ii.  John  Cabell^  Burwell,  b.  February  9,  1863;  m.,  at 
BrooksvHle,  Fla.,  December  7,  ^892,  Lucy  Whitfield 
Cobb,  and  has :  i.  John  Cobb  ^  Burwell,  b.  November 
8,  1893. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  547 

iii.  Henry  Ward''  Bur  well,  b.  November  2,  1865 ;  m.,  July 
12,  1893,  Mary  Anderson,  of  Fairview,  Green  County, 
S.  C. 

iv.  William  Hix^  BurweU,  b.  April  28,  1869. 

V.  Sallie  Winston  ^  BurweU,  d.  infant. 

vi.  Ruth  Terrill^  BurweU,  b.  January,  1877. 


120.  Frances  Whiting  ^  Cabell,  born  September  1, 1815  ; 
married  in  Charleston,  Kanawha  County,  November  1, 
1832,  Thomas  R.  Friend,  and  died  August  16,  1838.  Is- 
sue :  — 

472.  i.  Paulina  Scott  ^Friend. 

473.  ii.  Frances  CabelP  Friend. 

iii.  Josephine  Margaret^  Friend,  d.  young. 
472.  Paulina  Scott  ^  Friend,  born  March  28,  1834;  mar- 
ried (first),  in   Charleston,  November  1,  1853,  to  John  L. 
Moseley,  of  Bedford  County,  who  died,  leaving  issue  :  — 
i.  Thomas  Friend  ^  Moseley,  b.  August  20,  1864 ;  "  mar- 
ried, and  Hving  in  Stockton,  Cal." 
ii.  Henry  Winston  ^  Moseley,  d.  young. 
m.  Josephine  ^  Moseley,  d.  young. 

472.  Mrs.  Paulina  S.^  Moseley  married  (second),  July  15, 
1865,  Maj.  John  H.  Thompson,  of  Santa  Cruz,  Cal.,  for- 
merly of  Marion  Smythe  County,  Va.  They  are  now  hving 
in  California.     Issue  :  — 

iv.  Thomas  R.®  Thompson,  b.  1866  ;  m.,  and  living  in  Cal- 
ifornia. 
V.  Alexander  Q.*'  Thompson,  b.  July,  1867  ;  m.,  and  liv- 
ing in  California. 

vi.  Paulina  ^  Thompson^  m.,  and  Hving  in  California. 

vii.  John  Henry  ^  Thompson  ;  "  and  two  or  three  others." 

473.  Frances  Cabell  ^  Friend,  born  September  21,  1836 ; 
married,  January  31,  1855,  Joel  S.  Quarrier,  of  Charleston, 
W.  Va.,  son  of  Alexander  W.  Quarrier.  She  died  October 
6,  1892.     Issue :  — 

i.  Thomas  Alexander^  Quarrier,  d.  young. 

474.  ii.  PauHna  Moseley  ^  Quarrier. 


648  THE   CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

475.  iii.  Henrian  Cabell  '^  Quarrier. 

476.  iv.  Josephine  Moseley  ^  Quarrier. 

V.  Joel  Shrewsbury  ^  Quarrier,  b.  March  28,  1869. 
vi.  Richard  Laidley  ^  Quarrier,  d.  infant, 
vii.  Caroline  Wood^  Quarrier,  d.  infant. 

474.  Paulina  ("Pidgie")  M.^  Quarrier,  born  April  25, 
1857  ;  married,  October  29,  1885,  in  Charleston,  W.  Va., 
Harry  D.  Shrewsbury,  son  of  WilHam  Shrewsbury.  He 
died  August  29,  1894,  leaving  issue  :  — 

i.  Frances    Cabell   Friend^    Shrewsbury,    b.    August    11, 
1886. 

ii.  Herman  Douglas^  Shrewsbury,  b.  December  31,  1888. 
iii.  Talbot  Quarrier^  Shrewsbury,  b.  November  8,  1890. 
iv.  Kenneth  Oldham  ^  Shrewsbury,  b.  July  26,  1892. 

475.  Henrian  Cabell  '^  Quarrier,  born  April  30,  1859  ; 
married,  in  Charleston,  W.  Va.,  October  16,  1879,  Charles 
C.  Naret,  son  of  Dr.  Edward  Naret.     Issue  :  — 

i.  Joel  Quarrier^  Naret,  b.  June  29,  1880. 
ii.  Louis  Baer^  Naret,  b.  June  29,  1880 ;  d.  same  day. 
iii.  Charlotte  Baer^  Naret,  b.  May  9,  1882. 
iv.  Charles  C.^  Naret,  d.  infant. 
v.  Frances  F.^  Naret,  d.  infant. 

476.  Josephine  M.*'  Quarrier,  born  April  2,  1861 ;  mar- 
ried, in  Charleston,  W.  Va.,  March  1,  1892,  Prof.  John 
Robert  S.  Sterritt,  of  Amherst  College,  Mass.     Issue  :  — 

i.  Daphne  Theodora^  Sterritt,  b.  December  7,  1893. 


121.  Henry  Ann^  CabeU,  born  August  2,  1822;  died 
May  31,  1890;  married,  April  29,  1846,  in  Lynchburg, 
Samuel  Henry  Early,  who  died  some  years  before  her.  He 
was  a  captain  and  afterward  promoted  colonel  in  the  C.  S.  A. ; 
a  brother  of  Gen.  Jubal  Anderson  Early,  and  a  son  of  Col. 
Joab  Early,  of  Franklin  County,  Va.,  by  his  wife,  Ruth 
Hairston,  daughter  of  Col.  Samuel  Hairston  (and  his  wife, 
Judith  Saunders),  son  of  Robert  Hairston  (a  Scotchman, 
who  emigrated  to  Virginia  from  Ireland),  by  his  wife,  Ruth 
Stovall. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  549 

Col.  Joab  Early  was  a  son  of  Jubal  Early  (a  brother  to 
Elizabeth  Early,  wife  of  Col.  James  Callaway ;  see  No.  58), 
son  of  Col.  Jeremiah  Early,  of  Bedford,  who  served  in  the 
French  and  Indian  War,  was  colonel  of  the  county  early  in 
the  Revolution ;  died  in  1779  [by  his  wife,  Mary  Buford, 
said  to  have  been  sister  to  Capt.  Thomas  Buford,  killed  at 
Point  Pleasant  (October  10,  1774),  to  Gen.  Abraham  Bu- 
ford, of  the  Revolution,  and  to  Simeon  Buford,  who  went 
to  Kentucky,  the  grandfather  of  Generals  Napoleon  B.  and 
John  Buford  of  the  U.  S.  A.],  son  of  Jeremiah  Early,  who 
emigrated  from  Ulster,  Ireland,  and  settled  in  old  Cul- 
peper,  now  Madison  County,  Va.  The  emigrant  had  ten 
sons,  and  every  name  began  with  J.  His  son,  Col.  Jere- 
miah, of  Bedford,  had  seven  sons,  and  the  names  of  six 
began  with  J.  One  of  these,  Jubal,  was  the  grandfather 
of  Gen.  Jubal  A.  Early,  C.  S.  A. 

121.  Mrs.  Henry  Ann  '^  Cabell  Early  had  issue  six :  — 
477.     i.  John  CabelP  Early. 

ii.  Ruth  Hairston  Early. 

iii.  Henry  Ann  Early,  d.  April  9,  1895. 

iv.  Mary  Judith  Early. 

V.  Joab  Early,  d.  young. 

vi.  Jubal  A.  Early,  d.  young. 
477.  John  CabelP  Early,  born  February  29, 1848 ;  mar- 
ried at  "Fernley,"  September   21,  1876,  Mary  Washing- 
ton^ Cabell  (461).     He  is  a  farmer,  residing  at  "Red  Ga- 
bles," Nelson  County,  Va.    His  wife,  Mary  W.  Early  (born 
September  15,  1846),  is    an   authoress.     She   has  written 
principally  for  the   New  Church  magazines,  but   also  for 
other  periodicals,  novelettes,  short  stories,  etc.     They  have 
issue :  — 
i.  Evelyn  Russell  ^  Early, 
ii.  Samuel  Henry  '^  Early, 
iii.  Clifford  Cabell^  Early. 
iv.  Jubal  Anderson  ^  Early. 
V.  Henrian  ^  Early. 


550  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

25.    SAMUEL    J.^   CABELL's    DESCENDANTS. 

122.  Paulina  Jordan  *  Cabell,  born  February  13,  1797,  in 
Monroe  County,  Va. ;  married  (first),  June  18,  1816,  John 
S.  McCormack,  of  Lincoln  County,  Ky.     He  died  July  25, 
1824,  leaving  two  sons  :  — 
i.  Samuel^  McCormack. 

ii.  CabelP  McCormack,  "m.  in  Lincoln  County,  Ky.,  and 
raised  a  family ;  he  is  now  dead." 
122.  Mrs.  Paulina^  Cabell  McCormack  married  (second), 
December  15, 1829,  Col.  Gabriel  Lackey,  of  Lincoln  County, 
Ky.     Issue  :  — 
iii.  Samuel^  Lackey. 

iv.  Gabriel  ^  Lackey,  "  a  prominent  citizen  of  Stanford,  Ky." 
V.  Paulina  ^  Lackey,  "  who  m.  Alexander  Denny,  a  wealthy 
farmer,  of  Garrard  County,  Ky.,  and  has :  — 
i.  Mattie  ^  Denny,  m.  Mr.  Duncan,  of  Lancaster,  who 

died,  leaving  his  widow  a  yoimg  woman, 
ii.  Sallie''  Denny,  m.,  but  died  soon  after. 
iii.  Samuel  Cabell  ^  Denny,  now  teller  of  the  National 
Bank  of  Lancaster,  Ky." 


123.  William  £.■*  Cabell,  born  in  Monroe  County,  Va., 
May  16,  1798  ;  was  being  educated  for  a  Presbyterian  min- 
ister, but,  his  health  faihng,  he  became  a  farmer,  of  Casey 
County,  Ky. ;  married,  March  15,  1826,  Mary  Alstott,  and 
died  March  29,  1835,  leaving  four  children  :  — 

478.  i.  Susan  S.^  Cabell. 

479.  ii.  Mary  Alstott^  Cabell. 

480.  iii.  John  Breckinridge  ^  CabeU. 

481.  iv.  Sarah  A.^  Cabell. 

478.  Susan  S.^  Cabell,  married  Abraham  B.  Lee,  of  Casey 
County.     He  is  living.     She  is  dead,  leaving  :  — 

i.  Elizabeth  '^  Lee,  m.  John  Savage  and  d.  soon  after, 
ii.  William  '^  Lee. 
iii.  Mary  ^  Lee. 

479.  Mary  A.^  Cabell,  born  in  Casey  County,  Ky.,  March 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     551 

1,   1829;   married,  in   1848,  Dallas  H.  Rowe,  of   Boyle 
County,  Ky.     He   died    during   the  war.     She    is   living. 
Issue :  — 
i.  James  *^  Rowe,  b.  in  Casey  County,  Ky.,  September  18, 

1849 ;    m.   Eva   Richerson ;    lives  in   Texas.      Issue 

five  :  i.  Bertha  ^ ;  ii.  James  ^ ;  iii.  Mattie  ^ ;  iv.  Mary ''' ; 

and  V.  Richard  ^  Rowe. 
ii.  AKce  ^  Rowe,  b.  in  Casey  County,  Ky.,  December  25, 

1852;    m.    John    Gordon.     Issue:    i.   Clarence^;  ii. 

Zelma  ^ ;  iii.  Raymond  ' ;  and  iv.  Bertha  ^  Gordon. 
iii.  John  C.^  Rowe,  b.  in  Casey  County,  October  22,  1854 ; 

d.  January  7, 1889;  m.  Rachel  Best.    Issue:  i.  Mary'; 

ii.  Zilpah ' ;  and  iii.  Samuel '  Rowe. 
iv.  Bertha*^  Rowe,  b.   September   24,    1857;    m.    Samuel 

Best.     Issue  :  i.  Eva  ^ ;  and  ii.  Willie '  Best. 
V.  Dallas®  Rowe,  b.  in  Boyle  County,  Ky.,  November  11, 

1860 ;  a  farmer  in  Collin  County,  Tex. ;  unmarried, 
vi.  William  ^  Rowe,  b.  in  Boyle  County,  January  25, 1864 ; 

m.  Carrie  Philipps. 
"  They  all  live  in  Kentucky  save  James  and  Dallas  Rowe, 
and  in  politics  they  are  all  true  Democrats." 

480.  John  B.^  Cabell,  born  in  1831,  in  Casey  County, 
Ky.,  and  died  in  1888 ;  married,  first,  Matilda  Beldon,  sec- 
ond, Frances  Dodd.     Issue  six  :  — 

i.  Alice  ^  Cabell. 
ii.  James  ^  Cabell,  "  m.  Miss  Sharp,  and  died,  leaving  three 

children,  two  boys  and  one  girl." 
iii.  Sarah  ®  Cabell,  m.  William  Stagg.     Issue  :  i.  Bessie ' ; 

ii.  Willie ;  and  iii.  AUie  Stagg. 
iv.  William®  Cabell. 
V.  John  ®  Cabell. 
vi.  "DoUieDodd^CabeU." 

481.  Sarah  A.^  Cabell,  b.  in  Casey  County,  in  1834; 
married  James  Crowdus.     Issue  seven  :  — 

i.  Jane  ®  Crowdus,  m.  Hardin  Randolph.    Issue  :  i.  Lulie ' 

Randolph. 
ii.  Frances®  Crowdus. 


552  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

iii.  William  ^  Crowdus. 

iv.  Sarah  '^  Crowdus,  m.  Thomas  Stokes.    Issue :  i.  Mattie ' ; 

and  ii.  Effie  Stokes. 
V.  Ida*^  Crowdus,  m.  Charles  Mull.     Issue:  i.  Ollie'^;  ii. 

Willie^;  iii.  Freddie^;  and  iv.  Grade '^  3IiiU. 
vi.  Mark  ^    Crowdus,    m.    Lilian    Hart.       Issue :    i.    May  ^ 

Crowdus. 
vii.  EHzabeth  *^  Crowdus. 


124.  Jennetta^  Cabell,  born  June  20,  1803,  in  Monroe 
County,  Va. ;  married,  January  6,  1824,  James  Simpson,  of 
Marion  County,  Ky.  She  died  February  18,  1838.  He 
died  in  1854.     Issue :  — 

482.  i.  Elizabeth  ^  Simpson. 

483.  ii.  Susan  ^  Simpson. 

484.  iii.  William  °  Simpson. 

iv.  John^  Simpson,  m.  Elizabeth  Hale,  of  Franklin, 
Ky.  She  died  during  the  war,  s.  p.  He  lives 
in  Cass  County,  Mo. 

485.  V.  George  ^  Simpson. 

482.  Elizabeth  ^  Simpson,  married  Quintus  Chandler.  He 
died  in  1888,  leaving :  — 

i.  Belle'' Chandler. 

ii.  James  Richard  ^  Chandler,  d.  unmarried. 

iii.  Mack*'  Chandler,  d.  unmarried. 

iv.  Elizabeth*'  Chandler. 

v.  Mary  ^  Chandler,  "  m.  Grant  Lowry,  of  Nicholasville, 
Ky.,  who  d.  in  1886.  His  widow,  her  brother,  and 
sisters  live  with  their  mother  at  Bogard,  Carroll 
County,  Mo." 

vi.  John*^  Chandler. 

483.  Susan  ^  Simpson,  m.  Moses  Beard,  who  lived  and 
died  in  Marion  County,  Ky. 

i.  Elizabeth  *'  Beard,  m.  "  Dr.  Evans,  of  Bardstown,  Ky., 
and  had  six  children  ;  their  oldest,  William  '  Evans, 
m.  Miss  DelHe  Johnston,  and  is  a  merchant  of  Leb- 
anon, Ky." 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  553 

ii.   Frank  ^  Beard  is  married,  but  has  no  children, 
iii.  Samuel  ^  Beard,  m.  Maggie  Austin ;  has  one  child, 
iv.  John  ^  Beard,  m.  Susan  Hays ;  has  two  children. 
V.  George  ^  Beard,  "  moved  to  Texas  and  m.  there." 
vi.  Edgar  ^  Beard,  "moved  to  Texas  and  m.  there." 
vii.  Thomas  ^  Beard,  "  m.  (first)  Miss  Morrison,  of  Brad- 
fordsville,  Ky. ;  one  child  ;  and  (next)  Miss  Fry,  of 
same  place,  and  has  two  children  by  her." 
viii.  Quintus*^  Beard,  m.  Miss  Fry,  of  Bradfordsville. 
ix.  Moses  ^  Beard,  m.,  first.  Miss  Hall ;  next,  Miss  Evans, 

of  Bardstown,  Ky. 
X.  Lulie*^   Beard,    m.    William   Daniel,    of    Washington 

County,  Ky. 
xi.  Lettie^  Beard,  unmarried, 
xii.  Stephen  *^  Beard,  unmarried. 

484.   William  ^  Simpson,  married  (first)  Elizabeth  McEl- 
roy.     They  lived  in  Missouri.     She  died  about  1865,  leav- 
ing :  — 
i.  William*'  Simpson, 
ii.  Samuel  "^  Simpson, 
iii.  James  Proctor  "^  Simpson,  dead, 
iv.  Janie  "^  Simpson,  dead. 

484.  William^  Simpson,  married  (second)  Mrs.  Sarah 
Ingraham,  widow  of  Dr.  Isaac  Ingraham,  and  a  daughter  of 
Clayton  Miller,  of  Columbia,  Ky.  They  now  live  in  Car- 
rollton,  Carroll  County,  Mo. 

485.  George^  Simpson,  m.,  in  1861,  Nannie  B.  Gordon, 
daughter  of  Joel  Gordon.  They  now  live  near  Lebanon, 
Ky.     They  had  four  children  :  — 

i.  Elizabeth  ^  Simpson,  m.  Dr.  N.  M.  Basket,  of  Moberly, 
Mo. ;  at  present  a  member  of  Missouri  state  senate. 
She  d.  in  July,  1893. 

ii.  Jennie "  Simpson,  m.  William  M.  Rawlings,  of  Moberly, 
Mo.,  where  they  reside. 

iii.  Susie''  Simpson,  single. 

iv.  Louise  '^  Simpson,  b.  about  1878 ;  d.  1894. 


554  THE   CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

125.  Elizabeth '  Cabell,  born  July  10,  1806,  in  Monroe 
County,  Va. ;  married,  December  8,  1824,  William  McEl- 
roy,  of  Marion  County,  Ky.  "  The  McElroys  are  one  of 
the  most  largely  connected  and  influential  families  in  Ken- 
tucky."    She  died  June  22,  1835.     Issue  four :  — 

i.  Edwin  ^  McElroy,  was  killed  in  C.  S.  A. 

ii.  Elvira  ^  McElroy,  m.  Mr.  Bowles ;  no  children, 
iii.  Mary^  McElroy,  m.  Wilson  Vaughan,  of  Shelbyville, 

Mo. 
iv.  Samuel^  McElroy,  killed  in  C.  S.  A. 


126.  Madison  ^  Cabell,  born  November  22, 1808,  in  Casey 
County,  Ky. ;  married  in  March,  1831,  Eunice  Mitchell,  of 
Metcalfe  County,  Ky. ;  died  in  November,  1850.  Issue 
four :  — 

i.  Eunice^  Cabell,  d.  young. 
486.    ii.  Elvira^  Cabell. 

iii.  William  Winston  ^  Cabell,  d.  about  1886.     He  m. 
three  times,  and  left  one  daughter ;  m.   (first) 
Miss  Mary  Penick,  of  Green  County ;  d.  s.  p. ; 
m.  (second)  Mrs.  Amelia  Hunter,  daughter  of 
Clayton  Miller,  of  Columbia,  Ky. ;  d.  s.  p. ;  m. 
(third)  Miss   Nona   Taylor,   of    Columbia,  Ky. 
Issue :    i.  Pauline  ^  Cabell,  who  lives  with  her 
mother  in  Columbia,  Ky. 
iv.  Susan  V.^  Cabell,  m.  Dr.  Thomas  Hendrick,  "by 
whom  she  had  several  children.      Some  years 
ago  they  moved  from  Kentucky  to  Mississippi, 
and  have  since  died.     Their  children  are  now 
scattered  over  the  South." 
486.  Elvira  ^  Cabell,  married  Burwell  Hancock,  of  Green 
County,  Ky. ;  both  now  dead;  of  their  childi-en,  five  daugh- 
ters and  two  sons  are  living  :  — 
i.  Mattie^  Hancock,  m.  Jent  Penick.      "They  now  live 

with  their  family  at  Elkton,  Ky." 
ii.  Eunice  ^  Hancock,  m.  Robert  Buchanan.     "  They  reside 
near  Campbellsville,  Ky." 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  555 

iii.  Viola"  Hancock,  m.  Emmett  Mitchell,  of  Hart  County, 

iv.  Elizabeth  ^    Hancock,  m.    Thomas    Poore,    of    Green 

County,  Ky. 
V.  "  Sophia "  Hancock  and  the  two  sons  are  still  single." 


127.  Elvira  A.^  Cabell,  born  February  22, 1811,  in  Casey 
County,  Ky. ;  married,  January  20,  1831,  Franklin  Ander- 
son, a  prominent  citizen  of  Green  County,  Ky.  Both  are 
now  dead.  She  died  September  4,  1872,  leaving  two  chil- 
dren :  — 

487.  i.  James  Garland  ^  Anderson. 

488.  ii.  Mary  ^  Anderson. 

487.  James  Garland^  Anderson,  born  November  20, 
1830  (living) ;  married  Mary  Robinson,  of  Green  County, 
Ky. ;   living.     Issue  :  — 

i.  Elvira  ^  and  Frank  "  Anderson,  d.  infants, 
ii.  James  Lee  ^  Anderson,  b.  January  8,  1867 ;  single, 
iii.  Samuel  ^  Anderson,  b.  October  11,  1853 ;  m.,  Septem- 
ber 30,  1880,  Kate  Taylor,  of  Green   County,  Ky. 
They  live  at  Greensburg,  Ky.,  and  have  issue :  — 
i.  John  Adair  ^  Anderson,  b.  February  1,  1883. 
ii.  Lida^  Anderson,  b.  March  10,  1886. 
iii.  SamueP  Anderson,  b.  October  26,  1888. 
iv.  Mary^  Anderson,  b.  July,  1892. 

488.  Mary^  Anderson,  born  June  21,  1833  (living); 
married  (first),  December  7,  1852,  William  0.  Penick.  He 
died  leavinty  two  children  :  — 

i.  Frank  ^  Penick,  b.  September  20,  1853 ;  m.,  and  d.  s.  p. 

ii.  William  0.''  Penick,  b.  May  8,  1856  ;  m.,  November  4, 

1881,  Sophia  Smith,  of  Green  County,  Ky.     Issue  : 

i.  Sophia  Carlisle^  Penick,  b.  October  11,  1882;  and 

ii.  Elvu'a  A.^  Penick,  b.  August  31,  1885. 

488.  Mrs.  Mary^  (Anderson)   Penick   married   (second), 

September  29,  1859,  Milton  A.  Vaughan.     Issue  six,  three 

of  whom  died  young.     Two  daughters  and  a  son  are  Hv- 

ing:  — 


556  THE   CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

iii.  Mary  "^  Vaughan,  m.  James  D.  Wilson,  a  lawyer  of  Glas- 
gow, Ky.,  where  they  now  live.  Issue :  i.  Mary  ^ 
Wilson,  b.  January  10,  1884 ;  and  ii.  Frank  A  J  Wil- 
son, b.  August  12,  1885. 

iv.  Elvira^  Vaughan,  m.,  November  16,  1882,  William  E. 
Ward,  a  merchant  at  Greensburg,  Ky.,  youngest  son 
of  Gen.  Thomas  Ward,  U.  S.  A.,  and  brother  of  Hon. 
John  Hardin  Ward,  of  Louisville,  Ky.  Issue:  i. 
Milton  A.^  Ward,  b.  August  28,  1883. 
V.  "  A  son,"  *^  name  not  given. 


128.  Frederick  *  Cabell,  born  in  Casey  County,  Ky.,  June 
7,  1814.     (He  was  twin  brother  to  Samuel  R.*  Cabell,  who 
died  of  cholera  in  the  South  in   1851,  unmarried.)     Mr. 
Cabell  was  a  farmer,  a  large  land-owner,  and,  before  the 
war,  a  large  slave-owner.     He  was  an  elder  in  the  Presby- 
terian Church,  and  for  a  time  a  member  of  the  Grange. 
He  was   a   humane  master,  a  charitable  man,  and,  in  the 
words  of  an  old  acquaintance,  "  the  best  man  that  ever  lived 
in  our  county."     He  married  (first),  February  10,  1836, 
Paulina  E.  Sprowl,  daughter  of  Oliver  Sprowl,  of  Madison 
County,  Ky.     She  was  a  consistent  member  of  the  Pres- 
byterian   Church ;    died    in   December,  1851,  having    had 
issue  :  — 
i.  Mary  Davis  ^  Cabell,  b.  February  11,  1837 ;  m.,  October 
5,  1858,  Maj.  John  Q.  Owsley,  son  of  Dr.  Joel  Ows- 
ley, and  a  nephew  of    Gov.   Owsley,  of    Kentucky. 
She  d.  September  3,   1863,  leaving  an   only    child, 
Sophie   E.  Owsley,  who  d.  in   1865.     Her  husband 
married  again,  and  lives  in  Nashville,  Tenn. 
ii.  Susan  J.^  Cabell,  b.  1839;  d.  1844. 
iii.  Samuel  Jordan^  Cabell,  b.  May   4,    1840;    lieutenant 
13th  Kentucky   Infantry,    U.   S.  A.  ;  d.   of    wounds 
received  in  battle  at  Huff's  Ferry,  Tenn.,  March  6, 
1864.     "  Althouofh  Samuel  J.  Cabell  was  in  the  ser- 
vice  of  the  U.  S.,  having  entered  early  in  the  strug- 
gle, when  the  preservation   of   the  Union   was   the 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  557 

issue,  the  members  of  the  family  were  generally 
strong  in  their  sympathies  with  the  South." 
iv.  Margaret  Elizabeth^  Cabell,  b.  September  4,  1842;  liv- 
ing ;  m.,  September  8,  1864,  I.  N.  Penick,  of  Todd 
County,  Ky.  "  They  now  reside  in  Green  County, 
Ky.,  near  the  old  Cabell  homestead.  Her  (i.)  oldest 
dauofhter^  m.  J.  B.  Irvine,  and  has  two  small  ehil- 
dren.  Her  other  children  are :  ii.  Cabell  ^ ;  iii. 
Claude ^  iv.  William  C.'';  v.  Charles^;  vi.  Minnie ^ 
and  vii.  Helen  ^  Penick ;  all  young  and  unmarried." 
V.  Oliver^  Cabell,  b.  1845  ;  d.  1848. 

128.  Frederick'*  Cabell  married  (second),  in  November, 
1853,  Sophronia  Helen  Lewis,  a  native  of  Simpson  County, 
Ky.,  and  a  daughter  of  John  Lewis  and  his  wife,  Ann  G. 
Snoddy,   both  natives   of   Virginia.     John    was  a  son    of 
Hawkms  Lewis,  a  soldier  in  the  Revolution,  whose  wife  was 
a  Miss  Henderson.    Ann  was  a  daughter  of  Robert  Snoddy, 
Sr.,  who  was  a  resident  of,  and  an  elder  in  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in,  Lynchburg,  Va.,  for  some  years,  but  removed 
in  the  early  part  of  this  century  to  Barren  County,  Ky., 
where  he  died.     Mrs.  Cabell,  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church,  is  still  living.     Her  husband  died  January  2,  1888, 
having  had  by  his  second  marriage  :  — 
vi.  Lewis  Hardin  ^  Cabell,  b.  about  1854 ;  an  elder  in  the 
Presbyterian  Church ;  m.  Miss  Whitlock,  of  Green 
County,  and  has  two  children  :  i.  Louise  ^ ;  and  ii. 
Frederick^  Cabell. 
vii.  John  Frederick^  Cabell,  b.  about   1857;    m.,  about 
1892,   Miss  Frazer,  of    Columbia,   Ky.,  and   has  a 
daughter  :  i.  Elizabeth  "^  Cabell, 
viii.  Thomas  Henry  ^  Cabell,  d.  young. 
ix.  Ann  Caroline^  Cabell,  d.  young. 
X.  William  Edwin  ^  Cabell,  b.  1865  ;  attorney  at  law,  Mid- 

dlesborough,  Ky. 
xi.  Charles  R.^  Cabell,  b.  about  1870. 


558  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

V.    COL.  NICHOLAS  2  CABELL'S  BRANCH. 
27.  WILLIAM  3  H.  Cabell's  descendants.^ 

129.  Louisa  Elizabeth  *  Cabell,  born  February  19,  1798, 
at  "Union  Hill;"  married,  May  23,  1820,  at  "Monte- 
video," by  Rev.  William  S.  Reid,  to  Henry  Carrington,  of 
Charlotte. 

The  late  Hon.  Hugh  Blair  Grigsby  wrote  of  her  :  "  She 
was  nurtured  as  well  in  the  science  of  domestic  duty  as 
in  those  varied  accomplishments  which  adorn  a  cultivated 
woman.  And  from  her  personal  beauty,  and  from  those 
nameless  graces  that  impart  a  tenfold  greater  charm  to  the 
merely  physical  qualities  of  her  sex,  she  won  the  hearts  of 
all  who  approached  her,  and  became  one  of  the  belles  of 
the  commonwealth.  It  was  the  fortune  of  Henry  Carring- 
ton to  win  that  love  which  was  so  eagerly  sought  by  others, 
and  to  transplant  the  object  of  his  affections  to  his  own 
beautiful  home  on  the  Roanoke.  And  what  she  made  that 
home  to  her  husband,  to  her  friends  and  neighbors,  and  to 
all  who  trod  her  hospitable  threshold,  from  her  youth  to 
that  sad  morning  when  we  bore  her  precious  remains  to 
their  last  resting-place,  there  are  some  yet  living  who,  with 
grateful  hearts  and  a  faltering  tongue,  can  tell."  She  died 
January  8,  1865,  at  "  Ingleside." 

Her  husband,  Henry  Carrington,  the  eldest  son  of  Judge 
Paul  Carrington  the  elder,  by  his  second  wife,  was  born  at 
"  Mulberry  Hill,"  September  17,  1793  ;  educated  at  Hamp- 
den Sidney  and  at  Princeton,  N.  J.,  where  he  graduated  in 
1814.  Mr.  Grigsby  wrote  of  him :  "  He  studied  law,  but 
did  not  engage  heartily  in  the  practice,  as  his  father  gave 
him  the  beautiful  estate  of  Col.  Thomas  Read,  on  the  Little 
Roanoke,  about  three  miles  from  Charlotte  C.  H.  He  was 
a  fine  specimen  of  the  young  men  of  that  day,  —  six  feet 
tall  and  well  proportioned,  his  features  distinctly  marked 
and  intellectual ;  of  a  genial  and  Hvely  temperament,  which 

1  Those  from  his  first  wife  are  also  of  II.  Col.  William  2  Cabell  the  elder's 
branch.     (See  No.  16.) 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN      559 

gave  a  zest  to  the  social  circle,  and  impelled  him  to  appre- 
ciate at  its  fuU  value  the  worth  of  others;  and  a  mind 
trained  by  regular  study,  and  embeUished  with  a  large  stock 
of  useful  and  elegant  learning. 

"  As  a  young  man  he  had  the  privilege  of  an  intimacy 
with  John  Randolph  of  Roanoke  (whose  estates  adjoined 
his  father's),  and  with  most  of  the  eminent  judges  and 
lawyers  of  that  day  whom  he  met  with  in  the  society  of  his 
father  in  Richmond  and  at  home.  In  1820,  he  brought  his 
bride  to  his  residence  on  the  Roanoke,  which  had  previously 
borne  the  name  of  '  Singleside,'  but  thenceforth  was  to  be 
known  far  and  wide  as  '  Ingleside.'  And  here,  in  culti- 
vating his  estate  and  in  the  gratification  of  his  literary 
tastes,  and  in  dispensing  a  refined  and  generous  hospitaHty, 
he  spent  his  life.  He  had  nearly  reached  the  age  of  75, 
with  as  few  of  the  infirmities  of  the  body  as  was  ever 
known  at  that  advanced  stage  of  life,  and  a  long,  healthy, 
honored  old  age  seemed  to  be  reserved  for  him ;  but  in  the 
summer  of  1867,  returning  from  church,  at  a  visitation  of 
Bishop  Johns,  he  was  thrown  from  his  buggy  and  broke 
his  leg,  from  which  accident  he  never  recovered.  He  died 
December  5,  1867,  and  was  buried  by  the  side  of  his  wife 
in  the  family  cemetery  at  '  Retirement,'  the  estate  owned 
by  his  only  surviving  son."  He  was  the  father  of  eight 
children  :  — 

489.  i.  Wdham  CabelP  Carrington. 

ii.  Paul  Clement^  Carrmgton,  b.  1823  j  d.  1826. 

490.  iii.  Paulina  Edmonia  ^  Carrington. 

491.  iv.  Elizabeth  Cabell'^  Carrington. 

492.  V.  Agnes  Gamble^  Carrington. 

493.  vi.  Henry  Alexander^  Carrington. 

vii.  Margaret  ^  Carrington,  b.  1836  ;  d.  1836. 

494.  viii.  Emma  L.^  Carrington. 

489.  WilHam  Cabell  ^  Carrington,  born  at  "  Retirement," 
the  residence  of  "  Aunt  Le  Grand,"  on  Monday,  August 
27,  1821 ;  graduated  at  Hampden  Sidney  with  great  dis- 


560  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

tinction,  and  subsequently  in  law  at  the  University  of 
Virginia.  From  his  youth  onward  he  was  distinguished  for 
his  integrity  and  truthfulness,  and  for  his  indomitable  en- 
ergy in  the  pursuit  of  knowledge.  He  began  the  practice 
of  his  profession  as  partner  of  the  late  Judge  Wood  Boul- 
din,  and  was  for  several  years  a  successful  lawyer  of 
Charlotte  County.  He  married,  in  December,  1844,  at 
"  Vaucluse,"  Campbell  County,  Maria  Louisa  Dabney.  "  In 
April,  1845,  he  removed  to  Richmond,  and  took  charge  as 
leading  editor  of  'The  Richmond  Times  and  Compiler,' 
having  been  induced  to  do  this  by  the  earnest  solicitations 
of  some  of  the  most  influential  gentlemen  of  Richmond, 
who  thought  him  eminently  qualified,  by  his  high  character, 
great  intellectual  power,  and  singularly  calm,  self-poised 
temperament,  to  become  a  leader  of  men.  Their  judgment 
was  vindicated  by  the  result.  The  influence  of  his  paper 
grew  steadily  in  the  city  and  State.  In  the  fall  of  1851 
he  was  elected  to  represent  Richmond  in  the  legislature  of 
the  State,  and  a  brilliant  future  of  distinction  seemed  oj^en 
to  him  ;  but  it  was  ordered  otherwise.  He  died  December 
29,  1851,  at  his  residence  in  Richmond,  before  taking  his 
seat  in  the  House  of  Delegates,  lamented  by  all  who  knew 
him,  in  the  assured  hope  of  a  happy  immortality,  leaving 
behind  him  on  earth  no  purer  gentleman."  He  was  buried 
in  Shockoe  HiU  Cemetery,  and  his  funeral  sermon  was 
preached  by  the  Rev.  Moses  Hoge. 

The  late  Hon.  Hugh  Blair  Grigsby,  who  had  a  high 
opinion  of  him,  told  me  that  "  he  was  an  elegant  writer, 
and  gave  promise  of  the  highest  distinction."  Mr.  Grigsby 
also  refers  to  him  in  his  "  Virginia  Convention  of  1776," 
p.  119,  note,  in  which  he  is  stated  to  have  been  "  a  great- 
grandnephew"  of  Col.  William  Cabell,  of  "Union  Hill."  It 
should  be  a  "  great-grandson." 

His  widow,  Maria  Louisa  Dabney,  is  still  living.  She  is 
the  daughter  of  the  late  Rev.  John  Blair  Dabney  (and  his 
wife,  Elizabeth  Lewis  Towles,  daughter  of  Major  OHver 
Towles ;  see  under  68),  a  graduate  of  Princeton,  an  LL.  D. 


HON.   WILLIAM   CABELL  CARRINGTON 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN      561 

of  William  and  Mary  College.  Mr.  Dabney  was  for  many 
years  a  noted  lawyer  in  his  section  of  the  State,  but  about 
fifteen  years  before  his  death,  yielding  to  the  urgent  wishes 
of  Bishops  Meade  and  Johns,  he  took  orders  in  the  Episco- 
pal Church,  and  ministered  for  the  remainder  of  his  life  to 
four  churches  in  his  neighborhood,  without  making  any 
charge  for  his  services.  He  was  born  in  November,  1795, 
and  died  in  April,  1868 ;  son  of  Judge  John  Dabney,  mem- 
ber of  the  state  senate,  1805-1808,  appointed  judge  in  place 
of  Judge  Edmund  Winston,  resigned  in  1813  (by  his  ^\ife, 
Susanna  Dabney  Morris,  his  fu*st  cousin) ;  son  of  Capt. 
George  Dabney  (1740-1824),  a  member  of  the  Hanover 
County  Committee  in  1775  (by  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Price,  a 
granddaughter  of  Col.  William  and  EHzabeth  Beverley 
Randolph);  son  of  Col.  William  Dabney,  of  "  Aldringham," 
Hanover  County  (who  died  before  the  Revolution) ;  son  of 
George  Dabney,  who  lived  opposite  Hanovertown,  on  the 
Pamunkey  River ;  son  of  CorneUus  Dabney,  a  churchwarden 
of  St.  Peter's  Parish,  New  Kent  County,  in  1685.  (See 
under  No.  23.)  Elizabeth  Beverley  (1691-1723),  wife  of 
Col.  William  Randolph  (1681-1742),  was  a  daughter  of  Col. 
Peter  Beverley  (by  his  vdie,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Maj. 
Robert  Peyton,  who  emigrated  to  Virginia  from  Norfolk- 
shire,  England),  the  eldest  son  of  Maj.  Robert  Beverley, 
who  came  from  Yorkshire,  England,  and  died  in  Virginia 
March  25,  1687  (N.  S.). 

In  the  sketch  of  William  Cabell  Carrington's  ancestor, 
Col.  George  Carrington  (pp.  160,  161,  165),  I  noted  the 
Rev.  John  Hyde  Saunders,  of  Southam  Parish,  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Cumberland  County  Committee.  As  a  further 
light  on  these  committees,  in  this  section,  it  seems  well  to 
say  here  that  the  Rev.  Miles  Selden,  of  Henrico  Parish,  was 
a  member  of  Henrico  County  Committee,  and  that  the  Rev. 
Thomas  Hall,  of  Trinity  Parish,  was  the  chairman  of  the 
Louisa  County  Committee. 

489.  WiUiam  Cabell  ^  and  Maria  Louisa  Dabney  Carring- 
ton had  issue  three  :  — 


562  THE   CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

i.  Louisa  Edmonia  ^  Carrington,  b.  1846  ;  d.  1847. 

495.  ii.  Elizabeth  Lewis  '^  Carrington. 

496.  iii.  Williamine  Cabell*^  Carrington. 

495.  Elizabeth  Lewis  *^  Carrington,  born  October  14, 
1849 ;  married,  March  21,  1876,  Hon.  James  N.  Dunlop, 
of  Richmond, Va.;  Universityof  Virginia,  1861-1865-1866; 
"  a  brilliant  young  lawyer,  who  was  elected  to  the  House  of 
Delegates  from  Richmond  in  November,  1883,  and  again 
in  November,  1885.  He  died  July  28,  1888,  aged  44, 
leaving  issue  five  :  "  — 

i.  Maria  Louisa  ^  Dunlop,  b.  February  4,  1877. 

ii.  Nannie  Dent  ^  Dunlop,  b.  October  31,  1878. 
iii.  Bessie  Lewis  ^  Dunlop,  b.  February  18,  1880. 
iv.  James  N.^  Dunlop,  b.  January  21,  1882. 

V.  WiUiam  CabelF  Dunlop,  b.  October  11,  1883. 

496.  Williamine  Cabell  ^  Carrington,  born  in  June,  1852, 
at  "  Ingleside ; "  married.  May  19,  1879,  Robert  A.  Lan- 
caster, a  banker  of  Richmond  and  New  York,  who  has  been 
active  in  building  up  the  railroad  and  other  interests  of  the 
South.     Their  children  are  :  — 

i.  William  Cabell  ^  Lancaster,  b.  October  16,  1880. 

ii.  Henry  Carrington^  Lancaster,  b.  November  10,  1882. 
iii.  Kitty  Dabney '  Lancaster,  b.  October  25,  1886. 
iv.  Dabney  Stewart'  Lancaster,  b.  October  11,  1889. 

490.  Paulina  Edmonia  ^  Carrington,  born  at  "  Retire- 
ment," Saturday,  October  22, 1825,  about  sunset ;  married, 
at  "  Ingleside,"  October  15,  1845,  Wilham  Watkins  Read, 
a  graduate  of  Hampden  Sidney  College;  studied  law  under 
Judge  Lomax  at  Fredericksburg,  Va.,  etc. ;  son  of  Isaac 
Read,  of  "  Greenfield  "  (and  his  wife,  Anne  Mayo  V enable, 
born  June  4,  1784;  died  February  28,  1869;  daughter  of 
Col.  S.  W.  Venable  and  his  wife,  Mary  Carrington);  son 
of  Col.  Isaac  Read,  of  the  Charlotte  County  Committee,  and 
of  the  Revolutionary  army,  Avho  died  in  September,  1778, 
in  Philadelphia  (see  Grigsby's  "Virginia  Convention  of 
1776,"  p.  107);  son  of  Col.  Clement  Read.    (See  under  11.) 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  563 

Their  children  are  :  — 

497.  i.  Maria  Carrington^  Read. 

498.  ii.  Louisa  Cabell  Read. 

iii.  WiUiam  Howard  Read,  b.  January  14,  1850 ; 
m..  May  13, 1885,  Mary  Louise  Pierce,  of  New 
York  city ;  d.  September  21,  1890,  s.  p. 

499.  iv.  Edmonia  Blair  Read. 
V.  Annie  V  enable  Read. 

500.  vi.  Sarah  Embry  Read. 

vii.  Henry  C.  Read,  b.  1858 ;  d.  1863. 
viii.  James  Alexander  Read,  b.  1860  ;  d.  1864. 
ix.  Abram  Carrington  Read. 

501.  X.  Agnes  Elizabeth^  Read, 
xi.  Isaac  Mayo  ^  Read. 

497.  Maria  Carrington  ^  Read,  born  at  Ingleside,  March 
8,  1847 ;  married,    at    "  Greenfield,"    January    18,    1872, 
Thomas  Algernon  Watkins,  of  North  Carolina,  and  has 
issue  :  — 
i.  Edmonia  Carrington^  Watkins,  b.  July,  1876. 
ii.  Henrietta  Reynolds  ^  Watkins,  b.  December  9,  1883. 
iii.  Virginia  Douglass  ^  Watkins,  b.  June  18,  1887. 

497.  Louisa   Cabell  ^   Read,  born  at  Ingleside,  May  4, 
1848;    married,    at    "Greenfield,"    September    15,    1875, 
Isaac  Read,  of  New  York,  and  has  issue  :  — 
i.  Susie  Nash  ^  Read,  b.  in  July,  1880,  in  Brooklyn, 
ii.  WilHam  Howard^  Read,  b.  February  25,  1885. 

499.  Edmonia  Blair  ^  Read,  born  at  Ingleside,  November 
23,  1851 ;  married,  January  29,  1878,  Miles  Macon  ^  Mar- 
tin, and  has :  — 

i.  Edmonia  Blair  ^  Martin,  b.  November  14,  1878. 

ii.  Alexander'  Martin,  b.  June  5,  1881. 
iii.  John  ^  Martin,  b.  February  9,  1885. 
iv.  WilHam  Watkins '  Martin,  b.  July  9,  1889. 

500.  Sarah  Embry  ^  Read,  born  at  Greenfield,  Septem- 
ber 12,  1855  ;  married,  January  12,  1882,  John  Martin. 
He  died  July  19,  1889,  leaving  one  child  :  — 

i.  WiUiam  Watkins  ^  Martin,  b.  December  17,  1883. 


564  THE   CABELLS  AND  THEIR   KIN 

501.  Agnes  Elizabeth  ^  Read,  born  February  19,  1865  ; 
married,  April  30,  1890,  John  A.  Lancaster,  son  of  Robert 
A.  Lancaster  by  his  first  wife.     Their  children  are  :  — 

i.  Mary  Ely^  Lancaster,  b.  March  20,  1891. 
ii.  Edmonia  Carrington  ^  Lancaster,  b.  November  16,  1892. 

491.  Elizabeth  CabelP  Carrington,  born  at  "  Ingleside," 
Friday,  May  18,  1827;  married,  at  "Ingleside,"  December 
16,  1856,  Judge  George  H.  Gilmer,  of  Pittsylvania  County, 
Va.  She  is  still  living.  Her  husband,  who  died  January 
31,  1874,  at  Chatham,  Pittsylvania,  was  a  son  of  Peachy 
R.  Gilmer  (who  died  in  1836),  by  his  wife,  Mary  House,  of 
Connecticut.  He  was  a  brother  of  Mrs.  William  Wirt  (born 
August  15,  1772;  married,  May  28,  1795;  and  died  Sep- 
tember 17,  1799,  s.  p.),  of  Francis  Walker  Gilmer,  who  se- 
lected the  first  professors  for  the  University  of  Virginia, 
and  a  son  of  Dr.  George  Gilmer,  of  Pen  Park,  Albemarle 
(by  his  wife,  Lucy,  daughter  of  Dr.  Thomas  Walker).  Dr. 
George  Gilmer  graduated  at  University  of  Edinburgh,  Scot- 
land ;  then  graduated  in  medicine  in  1760 ;  was  a  member 
of  the  county  committee  of  Albemarle,  1774-1776  ;  lieu- 
tenant at  Williamsburg,  1775  ;  member  of  the  Convention 
of  1775,  etc. ;  died  1795.  He  was  the  son  of  Dr.  George 
Gilmer,  who  emigrated  from  Scotland  in  1731  and  settled 
in  Williamsburg,  Va.,  by  his  (second)  wife,  Mary  Peachy 
Walker  (born  February  10,  1711;  married.  May  24,  1732; 
died  October  1,  1745),  a  sister  of  Dr.  Thomas  Walker. 

491.  Mrs.  Ehzabeth  CabelP  Carrington  Gilmer  had  issue 
three :  — 

502.  i.  Louisa  Edmonia^  Gilmer. 

503.  ii.  Mary  Peachy  Gilmer. 

iii.  George  Harmer  Gilmer,  b.  December  19,   1864 ; 
now  in  business  in  Lynchburg,  Va. 

502.  Louisa  Edmonia  ^  Gilmer,  born  at  Chatham,  Feb- 
ruary 21,  1859;  married,  at  Chatham,  November  3,  1879, 
Robert  Holt  Easley ;  both  living,  and  have  issue  five :  — 

i.  Elizabeth^  Easley,  b.  September  29,  1880. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  565 

ii.  Florence  Leigh  Easley,  b.  November  14,  1883. 

iii.  James  Stone  Easley,  b.  April  7, 1885. 

iv.   George  Gilmer  Easley,  b.  February  21,  1887. 

V.  Louisa  Easley,  b.  1889 ;  d.  1889. 

503.  Mary  Peachy  ^  Gilmer,  born  January  3,  1863 ;  mar- 
ried, December  7,  1886,  John  W.  Craddock,  of  Lynchburg, 
Va.     Their  children  are  :  — 

i.  George  Gilmer '  Craddock,  b.  October  20,  1888. 

ii.  Charles  Granville^  Craddock,  b.  November  17,  1890. 
iii.  Elise  Carrington^  Craddock,  b.  April  15,  1892. 

492.  Agnes  Gamble  ^  Carrington,  born  Monday,  March 
29,  1830,  at  2  p.  m.  ;  married,  November  23,  1865,  Joel 
Watkins  Marshall,  of  Charlotte  County,  Va.  (son  of  Col. 
J.  P.  Marshall  and  his  wife,  Ehzabeth  W.  Watkins).  He 
died  December  10,  1873,  leaving  his  widow  and  two  chil- 
dren :  — 

i.  Henry  Carrington  ^  Marshall,  b.  November  24,  1869. 
ii.  Bessie  Watkins  ^  Marshall,  b.  October  10,  1871. 

493.  Henry  Alexander  ^  Carrington,  born  Thursday,  Sep- 
tember 13,  1832 ;  educated  at  the  V.  M.  I.  and  University 
of  Virginia,  1851-1852  ;  a  lawyer ;  married,  January  29, 
1856,  Charlotte  Elizabeth  Cullen,  daughter  of  Dr.  John  Cul- 
len,  of  Richmond,  Va. ;  C.  S.  A.,  1861-1865.  He  became 
lieutenant-colonel  of  the  18th  Virginia  (Col.  R.  E.  Withers), 
and  was  often  in  command.  He  was  a  noble  man,  richly 
endowed  by  nature  with  many  of  the  attributes  of  greatness. 
He  was  greatly  beloved  by  all  of  his  soldiers  and  country- 
men ;  indeed,  by  all  who  ever  knew  him.  "  The  H.  A.  Car- 
rington Camp  of  Confederate  Veterans  in  Charlotte  County 
was  named  in  honor  of  Col.  H.  A.  Carrington,  the  gallant 
and  intrepid  colonel  of  the  18th  Virginia  Infantry,  Pickett's 
Division.  He  was  in  twenty-nine  pitched  battles,  and  was 
at  the  head  of  his  brave  reoiment  in  the  darina:  and  head- 
long  charge  of  Pickett  at  Gettysburg.  With  his  own  hands 
he  planted  the  colors  of  his  regiment  within  the  Union 


566  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

lines  ;  was  desperately  wounded,  captured,  and  held  a  pris- 
oner on  Johnson's  Island  for  eight  months.  After  the  war, 
owino-  to  his  popularity  and  brilliant  war  record,  he  was 
elected  and  reelected  clerk  of  Charlotte  County,  which 
position  he  held  until  his  death.  He  died  in  Richmond, 
where  he  had  gone  for  medical  treatment,  January  22, 
1885,  and  was  interred  in  Shockoe  Hill  Cemetery  in  that 
city."  [Dr.  John  Cullen,  his  wife's  father,  was  born  in 
Dublin,  Ireland,  1797  ;  educated  at  Trinity  College ;  went 
to  Paris  about  1814  with  a  view  of  prosecuting  his  studies 
there,  and  from  that  city,  by  invitation,  he  started  to  visit 
his  uncle.  Bishop  Patrick  Curtis,^  of  the  Catholic  Church, 
Salamanca,  Spain ;  was  arrested  by  the  French  ;  carried 
back  to  Paris ;  paroled  ;  resumed  his  studies,  remaining  one 
or  two  years,  and  returned  to  England  after  "  Waterloo," 
on  the  same  ship  with  the  '•  Allied  Sovereigns; "  soon  after 
sailed  for  New  York,  and  from  thence  went  to  Philadelphia, 
where  he  graduated  in  the  Medical  Department  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania.  Finally  settled  in  Richmond,  Va. ; 
married  Miss  Howard ;  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
Medical  College  of  Virginia  in  1838 ;  died  in  Richmond, 
Va.,  December  25,  1849.]     Issue  :  — 

504.  i.  Louise  Cabell^  Carrington. 

ii.  WilHam  Cabell  ^  Carrington,  b.  November  1, 1858. 

505.  iii.  John  Cullen^  Carrington. 

iv.  Henry  Lee''  Carrington,  b.  1862;  d.  1888;  un- 
married. 

V.  Alfred  Randolph  ^  Carrington,  b.  in  July,  1865 ; 
m.,  December  15,  1891,  Ella  M.  Gordon. 

506.  vi.  Otelia  Maria  '^  Carrington. 

vii.  Matthew  Barbour^  Carrington,  b.  November  29, 

1869. 
viii.  Florence   Anderson  ^  Carrington,    b.   August   27, 
1871. 
ix.  Lottie  ^  Carrington,  b.  March  12,  1874. 
X.  George  Gilmer^  Carrington,  b.  August  12,  1876. 

^  See  Dictionary  of  National  Biography,  vol.  xiii.  p.  347. 


COL.    HENRY  ALEXANDER   CARRINGTON,   C.  S    A. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  567 

504.  Louise  Cabell  ^  Carrington,  born  at  Ingleside,  No- 
vember 17,  1856 ;  married,  in  September,  1883,  William 
Leigh,  and  has:  i.  Henry  Carrington,^  b.  November  22, 
1885  ;  ii.  Mary  C,"  b.  October  12,  1888  ;  and  iii.  Emma 
Riely '  Leigh,  b.  March  22,  1892. 

505.  John  CuUen  '^  Carrington,  born  at  Ingleside  in  No- 
vember, 1860  ;  at  present  clerk  of  Charlotte  County,  Va.  ; 
married,  January  11,  1888,  Mary  E.  W.  Hannah,  and  has  : 
i.  Ella  Watldns,"  b.  January  1,  1889 ;  ii.  Lottie  Cullen,"  b. 
May  23,  1890 ;  and  iii.  Mary  E.'^  Carrington,  b.  February 
23,  1892. 

506.  Oteha  Maria  ^  Carrington,  born  at  "  Retirement," 
November  28,  1867  ;  married,  June  5,  1889,  John  Somer- 
ville  Cunningham,  of  North  Carolina,  and  has  :  i.  John  S.,' 
b.  June  1, 1890 ;  and  ii.  Lottie  C."  Cunningham,  b.  August 
12,  1891. 

494.  Emma  L.^  Carrington,  born  Sunday,  January  22, 
1843,  at  10  p.  M.  ;  married,  at  Ingleside,  in  October,  1867, 
Col.  John  W.  Riely,  C.  S.  A. ;  attorney  at  law,   and  now 
the  resident  (at  the  capital)  member  of  the  Virginia  Court  of 
Appeals,  at  Richmond,  Va.     They  have  :  — 
i.  Louisa  Gilmer  ^  Riely,  b.  May  11,  1870  ;  m.,  December 
16, 1892,  Henry  Edmunds,  son  of  Hon.  Paul  Carring- 
ton Edmunds,  M.  C. 
ii.  Fanny  Grantham  ^  Riely,  b.  August  22,  1872. 
iii.  Henry  Carrington  ^  Riely,  b.  January,  1874. 
iv.  Emma  Carrington  ^  Riely,  b.  February,  1877. 
V.  John  Wilham*^  Riely,  b.  December  30,  1882. 


130.  Emma  Catherine  *  CabeB,  born  March  10,  1808 ; 
married.  May  9,  1826,  in  Richmond,  Va.,  by  Rev.  Jesse 
Turner,  to  Paul  S.  Carrington,  a  farmer  of  Charlotte 
County.  He  was  the  son  of  Judge  Paul  Carrington  the 
younger,  and  grandson  of  Judge  Paul  Carrington  the 
elder.  He  died  at  his  residence,  "  Ridgeway,"  on  Staunton 
River,  in  Charlotte,  on  Monday,  July  9,  1866,  in  his  69th 
year.     His  widow  survived  him  many  years.     Issue  :  — 


568  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

507.  i.  Isaac  H.^  Carrington. 

508.  ii.  Robert  G.^  Carrington. 

509.  iii.   William  A.^  Carrington. 

510.  iv.  Abram  CabelP  Carrington. 

511.  V.  Alexander  Broadnax  ^  Carrington. 

vi.  Edgar  Wirt  ^  Carrington,  b.  1835 ;  captain  of  a 
company  from  Charlotte  County  in  38th  Vir- 
ginia Regiment,  C.  S.  A.  ;  m.,  March  6,  1862, 
Mary  H.  Hannah;  killed,  May  31,  1862,  at 
"  Seven  Pines ;  "  s.  p. 

512.  vii.  Louisa  CabelP  Carrington. 

viii.  Adaline   Mayo  ^    Carrington ;    in    "  The    Louise 
Home,"  Washington,  D.  C. 

507.  Isaac  Howell  ^  Carrington,  born  March  7,  1827,  at 
the  home  of  his  great-grandfather.  Col.  Robert  Gamble,  on 
Gamble's  Hill,  Richmond,  Va. ;  at  the  University  of  North 
Carohna,  Chapel  Hill,   1812-1844;    at  the  University  of 
Virginia,  1844-1846.     In  1847,  he  went   to  Pittsylvania 
County,  Va.,  to  study  law  under  James  M.  Whittle  (a  bro- 
ther to  Bishop  Whittle),  entered  into  partnership  with  him, 
and    they    conducted   a   lucrative    and  successful  practice 
together  until  the  war  began.     He  married  (first),  in  1853, 
Mary  Coles,  daughter  of  John  Coles,  of  Pittsylvania,  and  a 
granddaughter  of  the  Hon.  Isaac  Coles,  of  the  Continental 
Congress.     There  were  four  children  by  this  marriage  :  — 
i.  d.  an  unnamed  infant. 
ii.  Elizabeth  Dandridge  *^  Carrington  ;  living, 
iii.  John  Rice '  Carrington,  b.  1857  ;  d.  1869. 
iv.  Emma  Cabell  ^  Carrington,  b.  1859 ;  m.  John  A.  Mid- 
dleton,  of  Baltimore,  Md.,  and  d.  in  1884,  leaving  : 
i.  Anna  M.^  Middleton,  b.  1882. 

Mrs.  Mary  Coles  Carrington  died  in  1860.  In  June,  1861, 
Isaac  H.^  Carrington  was  commissioned  major  38th  Virginia 
Infantry,  C.  S.  A.,  and  continued  in  the  field  until  1863. 
In  1863,  he  was  made  provost  marshal  of  Richmond,  the 
capital  of  the  Confederacy,  with  almost  despotic  power,  an 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  569 

office  of  great  responsibility,  which  he  filled  with  honor  and 
distinction  until  the  close  of  the  war,  the  history  of  which 
would  make  volumes  of  interesting  reading.  After  the 
evacuation  of  Richmond,  he  was  taken  prisoner  and  con- 
fined for  two  months  in  the  Libby  Prison  with  Judge  Robert 
Ould,  where  they  formed  a  friendship  and  agreed  upon  a 
partnership  in  the  practice  of  the  law,  which  continued  with 
unabated  success  until  Judge  Quid's  death  in  1881.  Major 
Carrington  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  visitors  of  the 
University  of  Virginia  from  1873.  He  died  at  his  home  in 
Richmond,  January  30,  1887,  at  which  time  he  was  Past 
Master  of  Metropolitan  Lodge  of  Masons,  and  president  of 
the  Richmond  Bar  Association.  His  funeral  was  conducted 
from  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  Church,  of  which  he  was  a  vestry- 
man.    The  interment  was  at  Hollywood. 

He  married  (second),  November  7,  1865,  Anne  Seddon 
Smith  (who  survives  him),  daughter  of  William  Patterson 
and  Marion  Morson  Seddon  Smith,  of  Gloucester  County, 
Va.     Issue :  — 
V.  Heyward"^  Carrington,  b.  1866;  d.  1883. 

vi.  Nannie  Seddon  ^  Carrington,  b.  1868 ;  d.  1869. 

vii.  Marion  Morson  ^  Carrington,  b.  1869  ;  d.  1869. 
viii.  Malcolm  ^  Carrington,  b.  1874. 

ix.  Mary  Coles  ^  Carrington,  b.  1876. 
X.  Seddon  ^  Carrington,  b.  1880. 

xi.  Margaret  Cabell  ^  Carrington,  b.  1883. 

508.  Robert  Gamble  ^  Carringtouj  born  1828 ;  at  Uni- 
versity of  Virginia,  1845-1849  ;  a  farmer  of  Wythe  County, 
Va.  ;  private  in  a  Wytheville  company,  C.  S.  A.,  1861-1865  ; 
married,  in  1861,  Jane  C.  Spiller,  daughter  of  William  H. 
Spiller,  of  Wytheville,  and  has  one  child  :  i.  Frank  Ber- 
nard ^  Carring^ton. 

509.  William  Allen  ^  Carrington,  born  1830;  at  the 
University  of  Virginia,  1847-1850,  where  he  graduated 
M.  D. ;  located  in  New  York,  and  had  acquired  a  lucrative 


570  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

practice  in  that  city  when  the  war  began ;  gave  up  his  prac- 
tice there,  escaping  from  the  city  with  much  difficulty. 
After  many  adventures,  he  arrived  in  Richmond  and  gave 
his  services  to  the  C.  S.  A.,  serving  in  the  field  and  after- 
wards as  the  Confederate  medical  director  for  Virginia  in 
charge  of  all  the  hospitals  in  and  around  Richmond,  with 
numerous  clerks  and  hundreds  of  medical  officers  under  his 
command,  and  tens  of  thousands  of  sick  and  wounded  under 
his  care.  The  Rev.  Dr.  W.  U.  Murkland,  of  Baltunore, 
who  was  his  chief  clerk,  writes  of  him  :  "  He  was  a  very 
fine-looking  man,  with  noble  carriage,  courteous  manners, 
kind,  considerate,  conscientious,  and  withal  a  warm-hearted 
Christian.     His  services  as  director  deserve  high  praise." 

He  married,  October  21,  1863,  Mildred  C.   Carrington, 
daughter  of  Isaac  (and   Sarah  Read)  Carrington,  of   Char- 
lotte County.     He  died  July  17, 1866.     Issue  :  — 
i.  Edgar  W.*^   Carrington,  b.  May   26,  1865,   attorney  at 

law,  Richmond,  Va. 
ii.  William  A.*^  Carrington,  d.  infant. 

510.  Abram  CabeU  °  Carrington,  born  October  15, 1831 ; 
at  V.  M.  I.,  1848;  at  Franklin  Minor's  School,  near 
Charlottesville,  Va.,  1849-1851;  married,  July  7,  1852, 
Nannie  C,  daughter  of  Clement  C.  Read,  of  Farmville,  Va. ; 
an  elder  in  the  Presbyterian  Church,  1856 ;  lieutenant  of 
Company  D,  18tli  Virginia  Regiment,  C.  S.  A. ;  was  killed 
while  leading  his  company  at  Frasier's  Farm,  June  30, 
1862.  Rev.  R.  L.  Dabney,  the  chaplain  of  his  regiment, 
said  of  him,  "  He  was  the  truest  man  I  ever  knew."  His 
widow  died  in  April,  1893,  having  had  issue  five  :  — 
i.  William   Cabell  ^  Carrington,   b.   November  13,  1853  ; 

m.  Mrs.  Wirt  Turner,  of  Bristol,  Tenn. 
ii.  Clement  Read^  Carrington,  b.  July.  12,  1855;  m.,  No- 
vember  10,    1892,    Eleanor    Patton    Crutchfield,    of 
Fredericksburg,  Va.,     and    has :    i.  Abram    Cabell  ^ 
Carrington,  b.  January  26,  1894. 
iii.  Paul  S.^  Carrington,  b.  October  1,  1857. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  571 

iv.  Alexander  B.^  Carrington,  b.  July  22,  1859. 

V.  Anne  Lee  ®  Carrington,  b.  July  21,  1862  ;  m.,  October 
30,  1888,  Rev.  William  S.  CampbeU,  of  Richmond, 
Va.,  and  has  :  i.  Virginia  Epps  ^  Campbell,  b.  July  28, 
1890. 

511.  Alexander  Broadnax^  Carrington,  born  in  August, 
1834 ;  at  University  of  Virginia,  1851 ;  Lexington  Law 
School,  1852-1853 ;  Presbyterian  minister  ;  married  (first). 
May  15,  1860,  Frances  B.,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  E.  Ven- 
able,  son  of  Col.  S.  W.  Venable  (1756-1821),  of  Prince 
Edward  County,  Va. ;  chaplain  C.  S.  A. ;  now  minister  of 
the  Presbyterian  Church  at  Greenwich,  Prince  William 
County,  Va.  His  first  wife  died  in  1885.  He  married 
(second),  in  1887,  Mrs.  Sarah  Ewell  Williams.  Issue  by 
first  wife  :  — 

i.  Alexander  Berkeley  ^  Carrington,  b.  January  27,  1862 ; 

m.,  November  11,  1891,  Mary  Taylor,  of  Danville, 

Va.,  and  has:  i.  Paul  SJ  Carrington. 
ii.  Charles  Venable*^  Carrington,  b.  July  29, 1866  ;  M.  D.  ; 

m.,  June  6,  1894,  Mrs.  Avis  Walker  Grant,  daughter 

of  Major  D.  N.  Walker,  of  Grove  Avenue,  Richmond, 

Va. 
iii.  Grattan  Cabell^  Carrington,  b.  September  3,  1868. 
iv.  Fanny  Venable  ^  Carrington,  b.  June  9,  1872. 

512.  Louisa  Cabell  ^  Carrington,  born  April  30,  1837 ; 
married,  November  8,  1860,  Andrew  Reid  Venable,  son  of 
William  H.  and  Margaret  R.  Venable,  of  Prince  Edward 
County,  Va.     Issue  :  — 

i.  Adeline  Carrington  ^  Venable,  b.  September  12,  1861. 

ii.  Susan  Watkins*^  Venable,  b.  July  6,  1863. 
iii.  Emma  Cabell  *^  Venable,  b.  September  2,  1867. 
iv.  William  Henry  ^  Venable,  b.  September  2,  1870. 

V.  Edgar  Wirt'  Venable,  b.  October  17,  1872. 
vi.  Richard'  Venable,  b.  1876;  d.  1876. 


572  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

131.  Robert  Gamble*  Cabell,  born  in  the  old  Gamble 
house  in  Richmond,  Va.,  December  11,  1809  ;  at  WilHam 
and  Mary  CoUege,  1828-1829;  a  tutor  in  the  family  of 
Mr.  Henry  Carrington,  1830-1831  ;  at  the  University  of 
Virginia,  1831-1833;  graduated  M.  D.,  1833;  studied 
medicine  in  Philadelphia,  and  practiced  a  year  in  the  Balti- 
more Hospital ;  then  came  to  Richmond  and  began  there 
the  practice  which  he  continued  wdth  so  much  success  until 
his  death.  He  was  married  in  Richmond  by  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Pollock,  January  19,  1843,  to  Margaret  Sophia  Caskie, 
daughter  of  James  (and  EHzabeth  Pankey)  Caskie,  a  native 
of  Scotland,  an  eminent  merchant  and  financier  of  Rich- 
mond, and  for  many  years  president  of  the  Bank  of  Vir- 
ginia. 

Dr.  Cabell  was  for  a  number  of  years  (ending  with  1884 
or  1885)  a  prominent  member  from  Jefferson  Ward  of  the 
Board  of  Aldermen  of  Richmond,  being  chau-man  of  the  com- 
mittee on  health,  and  actively  interested  in  the  sanitary  im- 
provements along  Shockoe  Creek.  In  every  position  which 
he  was  called  upon  to  fill  during  life,  wdiether  public  or 
private,  he  was  equal  to  the  occasion  and  faithful  to  his  duty. 
He  died  in  November,  1889,  at  his  home,  221  Governor 
Street,  Richmond,  Va.  His  funeral  services  w' ere  conducted 
the  next  day  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Hoge,  at  the  Second  Presby- 
terian Church,  of  which  he  had  long  been  a  member.  The 
interment  was  at  Hollywood.  "  He  was  by  long  odds  the 
oldest  practicing  physician  in  the  city.  He  had  never  been 
out  of  harness,  and  was  at  work  when  taken  sick,  about  a 
week  before  his  death,  and  even  after  he  went  to  bed  some 
of  his  patients  came  to  see  him,  and  he  prescribed  for  them. 
He  stood  very  high  as  a  physician,  and  many  of  the  best 
families  of  Richmond,  generation  after  generation,  had  re- 
Hed  upon  and  had  received  the  benefit  of  his  skill  and 
experience." 

Mrs.  Cabell  died  about  twenty  years  before  the  doctor, 
having  had :  — 

i.  James  Caskie  ^  Cabell,  b.  February  9,  1844 ;  lieu- 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     573 

tenant  in  C.  S.  A. ;  city  weigh-master  of  Ricli- 
mond,  etc.;  m.  Nannie  Enders,  one  of  the  rep- 
resentatives of  Virginia  at  the  Chicago  Centen- 
nial, 1893. 
ii.  William  H.^  Cabell,  b.  November  13,  1845  ;  at 
V.  M.  I. ;  killed  in  the  Cadet  (C.  S.  A.)  charge 
at  the  battle  of  New  Market,  May  15,  1864. 

513.  iii.  Robert  Gamble  ^  Cabell. 

iv.  Edward  Carrington  ^  Cabell,  b.  January  4,  1850 ; 
commonwealth  attorney  for  Richmond,  etc. ; 
m.  Isa  Carrington  (the  authoress),  granddaugh- 
ter of  Judge  Paul  Carrington,  Jr.  He  d.  June 
13,  1883,  s.  p. 

514.  V.  Elizabeth  Caskie  ^  Cabell. 

vi.  Arthur  Grattan  ^  Cabell,  b.  May  12,  1851 ;  sur- 
geon U.  S.  Navy;  unmarried. 

vii.  Agnes  Bell  ^  Cabell,  b.  November  18,  1856 ;  m. 
John  D.  Lottier,  of  Richmond,  Va. 

viii.  Henry  Landon^  Cabell,  b.  November  3,  1858  ; 
real  estate  and  loans  business,  Richmond,  Va. ; 
not  married, 
ix.  Margaret  Constance  ^  Cabell,  b.  December  2, 1862; 
m.  Boykin  Wright,  a  lawyer  of  Augusta, 
Georgia,  and  has :  i.  Marguerite  Cabell,*^  b.  No- 
vember 7,  1889 ;  and  ii.  Boykin  Cabell  ^ 
Wright,  b.  September  20,  1891. 

513.  Robert  Gamble'  Cabell,  born  July  16,  1847;  ed- 
ucated at  V.  M.  I. ;  was  in  the  Cadet  (C.  S.  A.)  charge  at 
the  battle  of  New  Market,  May  15,  1864 ;  M.  D. ;  was  at 
one  time  superintendent  of  the  Central  Lunatic  Asylum  of 
Virginia ;  is  now  a  prominent  druggist  of  Richmond  ;  mar- 
ried Annie  H.  Branch,  daughter  of  Lieut.-Col.  James  R. 
Branch,  C.  S.  A.     Their  children  are  :  — 

i.  James  Branch  ^  Cabell,  b.  April  14,  1879. 

ii.  Robert  Gamble  ^  CabeU,  b.  AprH  27,  1881. 
iii.  John  Lottier  ^  Cabell,  b.  February  27,  1883. 


574  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

514.  Elizabeth  Caskie^  Cabell,  born  May  1,  1851.  The 
State  of  Virginia  has  produced  many  beautiful  women. 
Among  these,  Miss  Lizzie  Cabell  and  her  aunt  of  the  same 
name  most  gracefully  rank  among  the  first,  the  loveliest  of 
the  lovely.  The  old  people  still  remember  the  conquests 
of  the  aunt,  and  it  will  be  long  before  the  young  people 
f  oro'et  the  reio'n  of  the  niece.  She  was  married  in  St.  Paul's 
Church,  Richmond,  October  27,  1875,  to  Albert  Ritchie, 
one  of  the  leading  lawyers  of  the  Baltimore  bar,  and  now 
an  associate  judge  of  the  supreme  bench  of  Baltimore  city. 
They  have  one  child  :  — 
i.  Albert  Cabell '  Ritchie,  b.  August  29,  1876. 


132.  Elizabeth  Hannah  *  Cabell,  born  September  9, 1811 ; 
married,  in  Richmond,  by  Rev.  Dr.  Jones,  June  6, 1850,  to 
Judge  William  Daniel,  Jr.  (son  of  Judge  William  Daniel, 
Sr.),  of  Lynchburg,  Va.  He  was  born  in  Cumberland 
County,  Va.,  November  26,  1806  ;  judge  of  the  Virginia 
Court  of  Appeals,  1846-1865 ;  died  at  Nelson  Court  House 
March  28,  1873.  By  his  first  wife,  Sarah  A.  Warwick 
(married  in  1840;  died  in  1846),  he  was  the  father  of  U.  S. 
Senator  John  Warwick  Daniel.  Elizabeth  H.^  Cabell  was 
a  noted  woman.  In  her  youth  she  reigned  socially  and 
almost  supremely  by  her  personal  beauty  and  her  graces  of 
mind  and  character.  As  years  increased,  she  continued  to 
exert,  if  possible,  a  stronger  influence  over  the  cii'cle  about 
her  by  her  remarkable  intellectual  power,  sustained  by  the 
gentle  traits  of  maturer  womanhood,  crowned  with  a  rare 
spiritual  exaltation.  She  died  at  the  residence  of  her 
brother,  Dr.  J.  G.  Cabell,  No.  108  North  Fifth  Street,  Rich- 
mond, Va.,  November  7,  1892  ;  her  funeral  took  place  from 
St.  James  Church  two  days  after.     She  left  no  children. 


133.  Edward  Carrington  ^  Cabell,  born  February  5, 1816, 
in  the  old  Gamble  residence,  Richmond,  Va.;  named  for 
his  great-uncle.  Gen.  Edward  Carrington;  education  com- 
pleted   at   Washington    CoUege,    1832-1833,    "Reynolds 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN      575 

Classical  Academy,"  Richmond,  Va.,  1833-1834,  and  Uni- 
versity of  Vii'ginia,  1834-1836.  Expecting  to  adopt  the 
profession  of  civil  engineering,  he  joined  one  of  the  corps 
engaged  in  locating  the  James  River  and  Kanawha  Canal 
in  the  fall  of  1836,  but  in  December  of  that  year  was  sent 
to  Florida  to  settle  up  a  family  estate  in  that  territory,  con- 
sisting of  lands  and  negroes  in  Jefferson  County.  The 
financial  crash  of  1837  rendering  it  unadvisable  to  sell,  he 
remained  to  manage  the  plantation,  and  thus  became  a  per- 
manent resident  of  Florida.  The  Seminole  War  was  not 
entirely  ended.  Not  long  before  his  arrival,  the  family  on 
the  adjoining  farm  had  been  massacred  by  the  Indians,  and 
other  citizens  were  killed  after  his  arrival.  The  men  always 
went  armed,  and  every  dwelling-house  was  protected  by  a 
strong  picket  stockade,  and  during  several  years  Mr.  Cabell 
had  many  interesting  border  experiences. 

He  was  one  of  the  delegates  from  Jefferson  County  to  the 
Constitutional  Convention  which  met  in  December,  1838, 
and  adopted  a  Constitution  which  was  afterwards  ratified 
by  the  people  preparatory  to  admission  into  the  Union,  but 
this  was  delayed  untd  March  4,  1845. 

In  the  spring  of  1839  he  returned  to  Virginia,  and  stud- 
ied law  under  his  father  until  the  fall  of  1840,  Avhen  he  was 
licensed  to  practice  ;  went  to  Florida  ;  settled  at  Tallahas- 
see, where  he  continued  in  active  and  lucrative  practice  till 
the  summer  of  1845.  In  the  first  election  after  the  admis- 
sion of  Florida,  Mr.  Yulee,  the  Democratic  candidate  for 
Congress,  was  elected  by  a  majority  almost  equal  to  the 
Whig  vote.  At  the  session  of  the  state  legislature  in  July, 
Mr.  Yulee  was  elected  to  the  U.  S.  Senate,  which  made 
necessary  another  election  for  representative  in  Congress. 
The  Whig  party  leaders,  after  the  recent  so  disastrous  de- 
feat, were  little  disposed  to  take  the  field.  It  was  too  late 
to  call  a  nominating  Convention.  Mr.  Cabell  was  informally 
requested  to  announce  himself  a  candidate,  which  he  did  in 
a  circular  address  to  the  people.  There  seemed  little  pros- 
pect of  success,  but  he  determined  to  deserve  it,  and  at  once 


576  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

commenced  a  most  active  canvass  of  the  State,  not  once 
visiting  his  home  until  after  the  election  in  October.  He 
was  elected,  and  took  his  seat  in  the  U.  S.  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives in  December,  1845.  His  election  was  contested, 
and  the  Democratic  House  jjave  his  seat  to  his  Democratic 
opponent.  After  announcing  to  the  house  that  this  action 
would  make  Florida  a  Whig  State,  he  returned  home,  re- 
solved to  make  good  that  announcement.  From  April  1  to 
the  day  of  the  election  in  October,  1846,  he  devoted  his 
whole  time  to  a  canvass  of  the  State,  visiting  every  part  of 
it,  —  no  light  matter  in  those  days,  when  there  was  not  a 
mile  of  railway  in  Florida  and  but  one  semi-weekly  two- 
horse  stage-coach  line ;  and,  as  Florida  had  but  one  repre- 
sentative, the  Congressional  district  embraced  the  entire 
State.  He  was  elected  by  a  majority  which  left  no  room 
for  contest.  At  the  next  election  (1848)  he  was  reelected 
by  an  increased  majority,  and  at  the  next  (1850)  by  a  three- 
fold majority.  In  1852,  the  AVhig  party,  against  the  pro- 
test of  Mr.  Cabell  and  many  other  Southern  Whigs,  nomi- 
nated Gen.Winfield  Scott  for  the  presidency,  and  met  their 
Waterloo.  In  Florida,  the  Democrats  elected  all  of  their 
candidates  by  large  majorities,  except  for  Congress.  Up  to 
the  official  announcement  Mr.  Cabell's  election  was  gener- 
ally conceded,  but  the  return  was  given  to  his  opponent  by 
four  or  six  majority.  Although  he  felt  sure  that  he  was 
fairly  elected,  for  cogent  reasons  he  did  not  contest. 

Mr.  Cabell  was  in  Congress  during  a  most  interesting  pe- 
riod of  our  country's  history.  The  Mexican  War  was  begun 
and  ended.  The  constitutional  and  sectional  questions  grow- 
ing out  of  the  acquisition  of  foreign  territory  were  ably  dis- 
cussed by  the  great  men  of  that  day.  Mr.  Clay's  famous 
"  Compromise  Measures  "  were  adopted,  with  the  vain  hope 
that  they  would  settle  these  questions  forever.  But  sec- 
tional agitation  continued  until  it  culminated  in  war  between 
the  sections.  He  was  on  terms  of  friendship  or  familiar 
acquaintance  with  most  of  the  giants  of  those  days.  Dur- 
ing the  whole  of  his  Congressional  career  he  Avas  active  in 


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THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  577 

public  affairs,  and  was  sometimes  conspicuous  by  a  course  of 
aggressive  independence.  He  was  of  the  small  party  known 
as  "  Southern  States  Rights  Whigs."  He  denounced  the 
nomination  of  Gen.  Scott,  did  not  vote  for  him,  and  since 
1853  has  acted  with  the  Democratic  party.  After  the  elec- 
tion of  1852,  he  was  tendered  the  appointment  of  consul 
to  Copenhagen  by  Mr.  Fillmore,  but  decUned. 

He  was  married  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  by  Rev.  Mr.  Hawkes, 
November  5,  1850,  to  Anna  Maria  Wilcox. 

After  the  expiration  of  his  term  in  Congress,  in  March, 
1853,  he  returned  to  Florida,  and  for  about  two  years  de- 
voted himself  to  his  plantation  and  the  settlement  of  his 
private  affairs,  having  previously,  in  connection  with  his 
brother,  Col.  H.  C.  Cabell,  bought  out  the  other  interests 
in  the  family  estate,  and  increased  it  by  other  piu'chases  to 
5000  acres  of  land  and  130  slaves. 

In  1855,  Florida  being  still  without  a  railroad,  a  com- 
pany was  organized  to  construct  a  road  to  connect  Talla- 
hassee with  the  Atlantic,  of  which  Mr.  Cabell  was  made 
president.  The  undertaking  was  a  very  difficult  one  in  a 
country  so  sparsely  settled  as  Florida  then  was,  and  before 
the  building  of  railways  was  simpHfied  by  the  issuing  of 
bonds,  but  good  progress  was  made.  In  August,  1857,  he 
visited  London,  in  the  interest  of  the  road,  to  piu-chase  iron 
therefor,  etc. ;  its  construction  was  assured,  and  the  road 
was  completed  in  1860. 

In  the  fall  of  1859,  Mr.  Cabell  determined  to  remove  to 
St.  Louis,  to  gratify  his  wife's  natiu-al  desire  to  be  with  "  her 
own  people."  Having  disposed  of  his  interests  in  Florida, 
he  removed  his  negroes  to  plantations  which  he  had  pur- 
chased in  Chicot  County,  Ark.,  and  Bolivar  County,  Miss. ; 
he  formed  a  partnership  with  Col.  Geo.  W.  Sappington  to 
attend  to  the  plantations,  while  he  brought  liis  family  to 
St.  Louis  and  opened  an  office  there  to  practice  law,  in  Jan- 
uary, 1860. 

When  the  "  Cotton  States  "  seceded,  a  large  majority  of 
the  people  of  Missouri  and  Kentucky  were  in  full  sympathy 


578  THE   CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

with  them.  But  these  two  States  were  held  to  the  Union 
by  the  idea  that  they  could  occupy  a  position  of  neutrality, 
and  thus  render  most  effective  aid  to  their  Southern  friends. 
After  the  capture  of  Fort  Simiter,  Missouri  would  have 
formally  seceded  if  a  convention  could  have  assembled  ; 
but  it  was  then  too  late.  Mr.  Cabell  was  sent  for  by  Gov. 
Jackson,  and  dispatched  to  Montgomery,  Ala.,  to  confer 
with  Pres.  Davis,  to  explain  the  condition  of  affairs  in  Mis- 
souri, and  to  endeavor  to  devise  a  way  by  Avhicli  the  State 
and  people,  now  heartily  sympathizing  with  the  Confeder- 
ate cause,  could  be  politically  identified  with  the  Confed- 
erate sfovernment.  Mr.  Cabell  found  Pres.  Davis  on  the 
eve  of  departure  for  Richmond,  which  had  been  made  the 
Confederate  seat  of  government.  After  a  short  conference 
with  the  President,  he  was  induced  to  beheve  that  his  mis- 
sion would  be  successful.  He  returned  at  once,  and  so  re- 
ported to  Gov.  Jackson,  whereupon  the  governor  appointed 
him  commissioner  for  Missoiu^i  to  the  Confederate  govern- 
ment, with  full  powers,  etc.,  and  requested  him  to  repair  to 
Richmond  as  soon  as  practicable.  He  arrived  at  St.  Louis 
from  Jefferson  City  on  the  celebrated  lOtli  day  of  May, 
1861.  After  a  joui'uey  of  continued  hardship  and  danger 
(having  to  pass  through  the  lines),  he  arrived  at  Richmond 
late  in  May. 

He  had  much  correspondence  and  frequent  interviews 
with  Pres.  Davis,  with  no  practical  result,  the  difficulty 
in  the  way  of  the  success  of  his  mission  being  Mr.  Davis' 
well-known  views  on  the  subject  of  state  sovereignty  and 
strict  constitutional  construction.  He  held  that,  prelimi- 
nary to  such  negotiations  as  Mr.  Cabell  desired,  a  regularly 
constituted  state  convention  must  be  held  to  determine  the 
will  of  the  people  of  Missouri  as  to  secession  from  the 
United  States  and  annexation  to  the  Confederacy.  To  show 
the  impossibility  of  what  Mr.  Davis  deemed  necessary,  Mr. 
Cabell  fully  explained  the  condition  of  affau's  in  Missouri. 
Every  department  of  government  and  a  large  majority  of 
the  people  desired  a  union  with  the  other  Southern  States  ; 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREX     579 

but  it  was  not  possible  to  give  constitutional  expression  of 
their  wishes,  because  a  large  army  was  quartered  in  St. 
Louis,  and  most  of  the  State  was  garrisoned  by  Federal 
troops.  No  election  of  delegates  could  be  held,  and  no 
convention  would  be  permitted  to  assemble.  To  insist  upon 
such  a  condition  under  such  circumstances  was  equivalent 
to  the  definite  rej)ulse  of  Missouri's  friendly  advances.  Mr. 
Cabell  proposed  an  alliance  with  the  government  and  people 
of  Missouri  known  to  be  loyal  to  the  Confederate  cause, 
but  this  was  met  by  the  same  constitutional  objections. 
Mr.  Davis  would  not  modify  or  relax  the  rigidity  of  his 
views  even  in  the  conduct  of  a  revolution  and  in  the  midst 
of  war.  Mr.  Toombs,  Secretary  of  State,  who  differed  with 
the  President  and  was  in  full  sympathy  Avith  Mr.  Cabell, 
resigned  and  went  into  the  army.  JNIr.  Benjamin  was  ap- 
pointed to  succeed  him,  and  Mr.  Cabell  received  soon  after  a 
communication  from  Mr.  Benjamin,  which  was  intended  to 
close  the  correspondence  and  end  the  negotiations,  in  which 
Mr.  Cabell  was  formally  advised  that  the  Confederate  govern- 
ment could  have  no  official  relations  with  Missouri  until  the 
people  of  the  State,  in  their  sovereign  capacity,  in  conven- 
tion assembled,  had  severed  their  connection  with  the  United 
States  and  asked  to  be  admitted  into  the  Confederacy.  Mr. 
Cabell  was  too  much  interested  in  the  success  of  his  mission 
to  yield  to  this  rebuff.  He  was  acquainted  with  every  mem- 
ber of  the  Confederate  Conofress.  He  had  served  with  most 
of  them  in  the  United  States  Congress.  He  resolved  to  try 
to  accomplish  his  object  through  the  Congress.  He  made 
personal  appeals  to  every  member,  and  the  result  was  that 
on  August  20,  1861,  an  act  was  passed  by  the  Confederate 
Provisional  Congress  to  the  effect  that  "  Missouri  be  ad- 
mitted a  member  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America,  on 
condition  that  the  Constitution  of  the  Confederate  States 
be  adopted  and  ratified  by  the  properly  and  legally  consti- 
tuted authorities  of  said  State ;  that  the  Congress  of  the 
Confederate  States  recognize  the  government  of  which 
Claiborne   F.    Jackson   is   the  chief  magistrate  to  be  the 


580  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

legally  elected  and  properly  constituted  government  of  the 
people  and  State  of  Missouri ;  and  that  the  President  of 
the  Confederate  States  be  authorized,  at  any  time  prior  to 
the  admission  of  Missouri  into  the  Confederacy,  to  perfect 
and  proclaim  an  alliance,  offensive  and  defensive,  with  said 
government." 

The  provisions  of  this  act  having  been  complied  with, 
Missouri  was  admitted  into  the  Confederacy  by  act  of  the 
Confederate  Congress,  November  28,  1861. 

I  have  gone  into  the  foregoing  details  because  I  have  seen 
no  publication  of  this  historic  incident,  —  the  admission  of 
Missouri  into  the  Confederacy,  —  and  because,  I  believe,  the 
result  was  accomplished  by  Mr.  Cabell's  personal  influence 
and  exertions,  and  against  the  ideas  of  President  Davis. 

Mr.  Cabell  remained  in  Richmond,  and  was  appointed  by 
Gov.  John  Letcher,  of  Virginia,  one  of  his  military  aids, 
with  the  rank  of  lieutenant-colonel,  and  was  present  at  the 
battles  of  Seven  Pines,  Gaines'  Mill,  Frasier's  Farm,  and 
Malvern  Hill.  In  the  latter  part  of  1862,  at  his  request  he 
was  transferred  to  the  Trans-Mississippi  Department,  Avhere 
he  served  on  the  staffs  of  Generals  Price  and  Kirby  Smith 
to  the  end  of  the  war  in  1865.  He  then  went  to  his  plan- 
tations on  the  Mississippi  River,  and  remained  there  until 
early  in  1867,  when  he  removed  to  Richmond,  Va.  In  the 
summer  of  1868,  he  removed  to  New  York  and  practiced 
law  until  the  winter  of  1872,  when  he  became  one  of  a  syn- 
dicate interested  in  Mexican  silver  mines.  He  went  to  Chi- 
huahua in  January,  1873.  In  November  following,  he  re- 
turned to  St.  Louis  to  practice  law,  and  has  resided  there 
ever  since.  In  1876,  he  again  went  to  Chihuahua,  and  sold 
out  his  interests  there.  In  1878,  he  was  elected  to  the  Sen- 
ate of  Missouri,  served  one  term  of  four  years,  and  then  re- 
tired from  public  life. 

He  was  president  of  the  Missouri  Society  of  the  Sons  of 
the  American  Revolution  in  1894.  He  is  the  oldest  of  the 
Cabell  name  now  living,  and  one  of  the  very  few  surviving 
gi-eat-grandchildren  of  the  old  doctor.     Since  1891  he  has 


MRS.   ANNA   MARIA  WILCOX   CABELL 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     581 

been  taking  much  interest  in  securing  the  pubHcation  of  a 
family  memorial  volume,  and  he  is  the  chief  patron  of  this 
book. 

His  wife,  Anna  Maria  Wilcox,  born  in  Columbia,  Mo., 
March  16,  1830,  noted  for  her  great  beauty  and  varied 
accomplishments,  died  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  November  21, 
1873.  Her  father.  Dr.  Daniel  P.  Wilcox,  born  about  1800, 
graduated  at  the  Medical  College  in  Lexington,  Ky. ;  lo- 
cated in  Columbia,  Mo. ;  became  a  successful  physician  and 
an  influential  man ;  elected  to  the  state  senate  in  1830 ;  and 
died  in  Jefferson  City,  while  attending  the  legislature,  in 
1831.  He  was  the  son  of  Col.  George  Wilcox,  a  native  of 
Virginia  (by  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Pinchbeck,  of  North  Caro- 
lina, whose  parents  were  from  England),  who  settled  in 
Shelby  County,  Ky.  He  is  said  to  have  been  "  an  officer 
in  the  Revolution,  and  also  in  the  Indian  wars  on  the 
Lakes." 

Dr.  Daniel  Pinchbeck  Wilcox  married,  in  1821,  Elizabeth 
Moss.  She  was  born  in  Maysville,  Ky.,  March  16,  1804, 
and  some  time  after  moved  with  her  parents  to  Columbia, 
Boone  County,  Mo.  She  married  (second),  in  1833,  Gen. 
William  H.  Ashley,  who  went  from  Chesterfield  County, 
Va.,  to  Missouri,  and  became  one  of  the  most  distinguished 
men  of  that  State.  He  died  March  26,  1838,  and  his 
widow  married  (third),  in  February,  1853,  Hon.  John  Jor- 
dan Crittenden,  of  Kentucky,  then  attorney-general  of  the 
United  States  (whose  parents  were  Virginians).  He  died 
July  26,  1863.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Moss  Crittenden  died  in  St. 
Louis,  Mo.,  February  8,  1873.  She  was  a  remarkable 
woman.  From  early  maidenhood  to  old  age  the  fascinating 
beauties  of  her  person  and  character  were  conspicuous.  She 
first  became  an  ornament  to  the  society  of  our  national  cap- 
ital in  the  winters  of  1833-1838,  during  the  life  of  her  sec- 
ond husband.  Mr.  Cabell  met  her  dauo-hter  there  in  the 
seasons  of  1848-1849 ;  after  their  marriage  she  spent  the 
winters  of  1850-1853  with  them,  and  after  her  own  mar- 
riage to  her  third  husband  she  resided  there  with  him  until 


582  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

his  death  in  1863.  About  the  beginning  of  the  late  war, 
the  guests  of  the  National  Hotel  gave  her  a  noted  recep- 
tion in  Washington,  on  which  occasion  an  address  was  pre- 
sented to  her  by  the  Hon.  Mr.  Lovejoy,  of  Illinois,  from 
which  I  extract :  — 

"  For  many  years  you  have  held  a  conspicuous  place 
in  the  best  circle  of  Washington.  Your  exalted  place  in 
society  has  been  adorned  by  grace,  dignity,  courtesy,  and 
kindness  universally  manifested.  .  .  .  Detraction  you  have 
always  scorned ;  kindness  and  genial  feelings  you  have 
cherished.  You  have  been  a  nation's  benefactor.  .  .  .  You 
have  shown  us  that,  if  political  life  is  an  ocean  with  its  dark 
waves  and  angry  storms,  social  life  may  be  a  calm,  serene 
lake,  reflecting  bright  images  of  purity  and  love.  The 
names  of  Mrs.  Hamilton,  Mrs.  Madison,  and  Mrs.  Critten- 
den will  always  shine  in  the  annals  of  social  life  in  Wash- 
ington. We  pay  you  the  homage  of  sincere  respect  and 
esteem.  We  take  your  daguerreotype  upon  our  hearts,  and 
will  keep  it  there  while  memory  lasts." 

Mrs.  Crittenden  was  a  daughter  of  Dr.  James  W.  Moss, 
of  Goochland,  and  his  wife,  Mary  Woodson.  Dr.  Moss 
married  in  1801 ;  removed  to  Maysville,  Ky.,  in  1803,  and 
from  there,  some  time  prior  to  1821,  to  Columbia,  Mo. 
His  sister,  Keturah  L.  Moss,  married  Gen.  James  Taylor,  of 
Kentuckv.  Their  father,  Husrh  Moss,  was  commissioned 
captain  of  militia  in  Goochland  County  in  1760,  and  major 
in  1770.  "  He  served  in  the  Revolutionary  War,  and  died 
in  1780  from  the  effect  of  wounds  received  in  battle."  He 
was  married  "  by  the  father  of  Henry  Clay,  a  Baptist 
preacher,  to  Jane  Ford,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Ketura 
Wynne  Ford."  His  father,  James  Moss,  came  from  Eng- 
land, about  1719,  to  Virginia,  where  he  married  EHzabeth 
Henderson,  whose  ancestor  came  from  Scotland. 

Mary  Woodson  Moss,  Mrs.  Crittenden's  mother,  was  a 
daughter  of  Josiah  Woodson,  of  Dover,  Goochland  County, 
Va. ;  "  a  major  in  the  Revolutionary  army ;  removed  to 
Maysville,  Ky.,  about  1804,  where  he  died  in  1817  "  (by 


THE   FOUNDER'S   GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  583 

his  wife,  Elizabeth  Woodson),  son  of  Col.  John  Woodson, 
long  a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  from  Goochland, 
by  his  wife,  Dorothea  Randolph  (their  marriage  bond  is 
dated  October  28,  1751),  the  sister  to  Susannah  Randolph, 
who  married  Carter  H.  Harrison,  and  aunt  to  Thomas  Jef- 
ferson. She  died  at  Dover,  Goochland  County,  Va.,  Feb- 
ruary 2,  1794.  Col.  John  Woodson's  will  was  probated 
January  18,  1790.  He  was  a  son  of  Josiah  Woodson,  who 
died  in  1736  (by  his  wife,  Mary  Royal),  son  of  John  Wood- 
son, of  Curies,  in  Henrico  (by  his  wife,  Judith  Tarleton,  a 
daughter  of  Stephen  Tarleton,  who  died  in  1687),  eldest 
son  of  Robert  Woodson,  son  of  Dr.  John  Woodson,  who 
emigrated  to  Virginia  from  Dorsetshire,  England,  prior  to 
1625. 

133.  Col.  and  Mrs.  E.  C.'*  CabeU  had  issue :  — 

515.  i.  Ashley^  CabeU. 

ii.  William  H.^  Cabell,  b.  in  Washington,  D.  C, 
December  29,  1852 ;  d.  in  1889 ;  unmarried. 

iii.  Florida^  Cabell,  b.  in  Tallahassee,  September  17, 
1857 ;  d.  March  16,  1858. 

iv.  Agnes  Bell^  Cabell,  b.  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  June 
13,  1860;  d.  November  10,  1860. 

516.  V.  Elizabeth  Crittenden^  Cabell. 

vi.  J.  J.  Crittenden  ^  Cabell,  b.  in  Washington,  D.  C, 
January  10,  1863 ;  d.  February  24,  1872. 

vii.  Mary  Hope^  Cabell,  b.  in  New  York  city,  Janu- 
ary 25,  1867. 

515.  Ashley^  Cabell,  born  in  Washington,  D.  C,  Decem- 
ber 27,  1853,  completed  his  education  at  Washington  and 
Lee  University,  taking  the  B.  L.  degree  in  1873,  and  in 
Europe,  1873-1875 ;  practicing  law  in  St.  Louis,  1875- 
1878 ;  for  many  years  from  1878  was  jury  commissioner 
of  St.  Louis,  and  president  and  manager  of  the  American 
School-Book  Company.  He  finally  resumed  the  practice  of 
law,  and  is  now  a  prominent  attorney  at  the  St.  Louis  bar. 

He  married,  October  19,  1881,  Margaret  Hodges  Stretch, 


584  THE   CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

born  July  4, 1861,  daughter  of  Dr.  Aaron  Stretch,  of  Nash- 
ville, Tenn.,  and  his  wife,  Frances  Gowdey.  Dr.  Stretch's 
great-great-grandfather,  Nathaniel  Stretch,  came  to  this 
country  from  Wales,  and  settled  on  a  farm  near  Salem, 
N.  J.,  which  is  still  in  possession  of  the  family. 

Frances  Gowdey  Avas  a  daughter  of  Thomas  Gowdey, 
born  August  21,  1795,  in  Castlewellan,  County  Down,  Ire- 
land; appointed  a  lieutenant  in  the  British  army;  was 
wounded  at  Corunna  and  unfitted  for  service ;  resigned 
and  came  to  America  in  1818 ;  afterwards  settled  in  Nash- 
ville, Tenn.,  where  he  amassed  a  fortune,  and  died  June  27, 
1863.  His  wife,  Ann  Power  McCarton,  was  the  daughter 
of  Thomas  McCarton  and  Judith  Smith,  daughter  of  Reu- 
ben Smith,  the  son  of  Reuben  Smith,  who  came  from  Eng- 
land, settled  in  Goochland  County,  Va.,  and  who,  according 
to  family  tradition,  was  a  soldier  of  the  Revolution,  was 
wounded  in  battle,  and  received  a  pension  from  the  United 
States  government. 

515.  Ashley  ^  Cabell  has  issue  :  — 
i.  Selden '  Cabell,  b.  1882 ;  d.  1887. 

ii.  Margaret*^  Cabell,  b.  May  20,  1888. 
iii.  Carrington «  CabeU,  b.  March  12,  1893. 

516.  Elizabeth  Crittenden  ^  Cabell  (twin  sister  to  Agnes 
Bell),  born  June  13,  1860 ;  married  April  20,  1881,  Benja- 
min F.  Gray,  Jr.,  of  St.  Louis.  He  was  born  January  10, 
1847 ;  educated  at  Racine,  Wis. ;  resided  for  several  years 
in  New  York  ;  and  has  been  for  many  years  a  real  estate 
agent  and  broker  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.  His  father,  Benjamin 
F.  Gray,  Sr.,  is  a  native  of  Annapolis,  Md. ;  his  mother, 
Maria  Jenkins,  a  native  of  Wales.     He  has  issue  :  — 

i.  Cabell*^  Gray,  b.  February  10,  1882. 
ii.  Benjamin  F.*^  Gray,  b.  August  28,  1883. 
iii.  WilHam  Ashley «  Gray,  b.  December  18,  1888. 
iv.  Wastell*^  Gray,  b.  February  2,  1893. 


134.  John    Grattan'   Cabell,   born   June   17,   1817,  at 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  585 

"  Montevideo ; "  at  various  schools  in  Richmond,  in  Char- 
lotte County,  and  at  Washington  College ;  at  University  of 
Virginia,  1836-1837 ;  engineering  on  James  River  and 
Kanawha  Canal,  1837-1838 ;  taking  medical  course  at  Uni- 
versity of  Virginia,  1838-1839 ;  student  at  "  Baltimore 
Almshouse,"  and  same  time  at  the  University  of  Maryland, 
taking  the  M.  D.  degree  in  1841 ;  attending  upon  the  hos- 
pitals in  Paris,  France,  1841-1842  ;  entered  upon  the  prac- 
tice of  his  profession  in  Richmond,  Va.,  1842 ;  married 
(first),  February  21,  1844,  by  Bishop  Johns,  to  Sarah  Mar- 
shall Tankersley,  of  Richmond,  who  died  March  15,  1855, 
leaving  an  only  child  :  — 

i.  Sarah  Elizabeth  ^  Cabell,  b.  October  24,  1849 ;  d.  Octo- 
ber 3,  1862. 

134.  Dr.  Cabell  continued  in  the  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion until  1856,  when  he  removed  to  "  Midway  "  plantation 
in  Nelson  County,  Va.,  which  had  been  given  to  him  by  his 
uncle,  Joseph  C.  Cabell.  After  several  years  he  sold  this 
estate  and  returned  to  Richmond.  He  entered  the  C.  S.  A. 
as  captain  of  the  governor's  mounted  guard ;  was  promoted 
lieutenant-colonel  of  cavalry ;  in  1862  was  assigned  to  duty 
as  medical  superintendent  of  the  3d  division  of  "  Jackson 
Hospital,"  Richmond,  Va.,  and  continued  there  until  the 
end  of  the  war,  when  he  resumed  his  practice  in  Richmond 
in  partnership  with  Dr.  F.  W.  Hancock.  In  a  few  years  he 
was  appointed  a  member  of  the  city  Board  of  Health,  was 
soon  after  chosen  its  president,  and  continued  as  such  for  a 
number  of  years. 

He  married  (second),  June  9,  1869,  Agnes  C.  Coles, 
daughter  of  Hon.  Walter  C.  Coles,  of  Pittsylvania  County, 
Va.,  and  his  wife,  Lettice  P.  Carrington,  daughter  of  Judge 
Paul  Carrington  the  elder,  by  his  second  wife.  By  this 
marriage  he  has  had  seven  children,  five  of  whom  died  in 
infancy  ;  the  living  are  :  — 
ii.  Walter  Coles  ^  Cabell,  b.  October  13,  1874  j  University 

of  Virginia,  1894-1895. 
iii.  Florence^  Cabell,  b.  December  14,  1878. 


586  THE   CABELLS  AND   THEIK   KIN 

135.  Heniy  Coalter'  CabeU,  born  February  14,  1820; 
completed  his  education  at  the  University  of  Virginia, 
where  he  graduated  in  the  academic  (1837—1839)  and  law 
(1841-1842)  departments;  located  in  Richmond,  and  began 
the  practice  of  law  in  partnership  with  Sydney  S.  Baxter, 
attorney-general  of  Virginia ;  married.  May  1,  1850,  by 
Rev.  Mr.  Cornish,  to  Jane  C.  Alston,  of  South  Carolina ; 
entered  C.  S.  A.  April  25,  1861,  as  captain  of  the  Fayette 
Artillery ;  promoted  lieutenant-colonel  1st  Virginia  Regi- 
ment of  Artillery  in  September,  1861 ;  promoted  colonel  of 
the  regiment  in  spring  of  1862,  and  was  soon  after  made 
chief  of  artillery  under  Gen.  J.  B.  Magruder,  commanding 
the  Army  of  the  Peninsula ;  appointed  chief  of  artillery, 
McLaws'  Division,  Army  of  Northern  Virginia,  in  July, 
1862,  in  which  position  he  served  until  the  close  of  the 
war.  The  famous  Howitzers  of  Richmond  were  in  his  com- 
mand. He  was  in  the  fight  at  Dam  No.  1,  and  other 
engagements  on  the  Peninsula ;  was  in  the  battles  of  Seven 
Pines,  Sharpsburg,  Fredericksburg,  Chancellorsville,  Gettys- 
burg, the  Wilderness,  Spottsylvania  Court  House,  Hanover 
Junction,  Cold  Harbor,  the  defense  of  Petersburg,  etc. 
His  last  engagement  was  on  April  8,  1865,  in  the  afternoon 
preceding  the  surrender  at  Appomattox  Court  House,  where 
his  artillery  rej^ulsed,  without  infantry  support,  a  charge 
made  by  a  very  large  force  of  the  enemy.  At  the  battle  of 
Gettysburg  his  artillery  sujDported  the  famous  charge  of 
Pickett.  During  that  three  days'  fight  two  horses  were 
shot  from  under  him  and  he  was  slightly  wounded  in  his 
left  side,  but  did  not  leave  the  field.  Just  before  the  close 
of  the  Avar  he  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  general  of  artil- 
lery, but  as  the  commission  did  not  reach  him  until  after 
the  end  of  the  war,  he  did  not  assume  the  title.  There  was 
no  better  soldier  in  the  army ;  none  left  Appomattox  with 
a  brighter  record.  He  was  always  with  his  command,  a 
calm,  fearless,  modest,  trusty  officer. 

After  the  war  he  formed  a  law  partnership  with  his 
brother-in-law.  Judge  William  Daniel,  ex-judge  of  the  Vir- 


COL.   HENRY  COALTER   CABELL^   C.  S.  A 


THE   FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  587 

ginia  Court  of  Appeals.  He  was  a  patriotic  and  public- 
spirited  citizen,  devoted  to  the  work  of  advancing  the  inter- 
est of  his  native  city  and  native  State.  He  was  much  inter- 
ested in  having  a  memorial  volume  of  his  family,  and  on 
April  14,  1879,  he  wrote  me  a  long  letter  encouraging  me 
to  undertake  the  task.  At  different  times  during:  his  life 
he  served  as  director  of  the  Central  Railroad,  the  Chesa- 
peake and  Ohio  Railway,  the  James  River  and  Kanawha 
Canal,  the  Virginia  Historical  Society,  etc.  He  died  in 
Richmond,  January  31,  1889,  and  was  interred  with  mili- 
tary honors  in  Hollywood  Cemetery. 

The  following  tribute  to  him  is  taken  from  an  editorial 
in  the  "  Richmond  Dispatch  :  "  "  Yesterday  death  removed 
from  the  community  Col.  H.  Coalter  Cabell,  a  citizen  who 
had  gone  in  and  out  among  our  people  for  more  than  half 
a  century,  respected,  admired,  and  beloved  by  all  who  knew 
him.  Col.  Cabell  was  a  soldier  of  untarnished  record,  a 
disciplinarian  who  tempered  authority  with  kindliness,  a 
polished  gentleman,  a  sincere  Christian  in  thought  and  act. 
Truly  it  can  be  said  of  him,  '  He  was  a  good  man,'  de- 
serving of  all  the  eulogy  those  words  can  convey.  He  was 
a  lawyer  whose  mind  was  well  stored  with  the  literature  of 
his  profession,  and  a  classical  scholar  of  fine  attainments. 
He  was  affectionate  in  his  family,  a  loyal  friend,  an  intense 
Virginian,  devoted  to  his  State  and  city.  His  ability  would 
have  made  him  a  much  more  prominent  figure  in  the  public 
arena  than  he  was,  had  not  his  shoulders  ever  been  covered 
with  the  mantle  of  modesty.  He  was  a  clear,  forcible 
thinker,  far-seeino-  and  conservative  in  an  eminent  deofree 
as  regards  all  public  matters,  but  his  advice  was  seldom 
given  unless  sought.  Then,  however,  it  was  given  cheer- 
fully. 

"  Col.  Cabell  had  been  in  ill-health  ever  since  the  close  of 
the  war,  —  had  been  indeed  a  sufferer,  —  but  the  fact  was 
known  to  only  a  few  outside  of  his  family.  He  never  com- 
plained. His  fortitude  Avhen  in  pain  was  equaled  only  by 
his  courage   upon   the  battlefield,   and    by  his   gentleness 


588  THE   CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

when  seeking  to  alleviate  the  sorrow  and  pain  of  others. 
The  tribute  that  he  was  noble,  tender,  and  true,  if  ever 
man  was,  will  be  echoed  by  hundreds  when  they  read  the 
announcement  of  his  death." 

Col.  Cabell's  wife,  Jane  Alston  (who  died  a  few  years 
before  he  did),  a  lady  of  large  wealth,  with  rare  beauty 
and  many  accomplishments,  was  the  only  child  of  Major 
James  Alston  and  his  wife,  Catherine  Hamilton. 

Major  James  Alston,  a  wealthy  planter  of  Abbeville, 
S.  C,  served  under  Gen.  x\ndrew  Jackson  as  a  major  in  the 
Florida  war.  He  was  the  son  of  Lieut.-Col.  William  Alston, 
of  the  Committee  of  Safety  of  1774,  of  the  Provincial  Con- 
gress of  April,  1776,  and  of  the  Continental  army.  He 
married  his  cousin.  Charity  Alston,  a  woman  of  great  per- 
sonal beauty,  whose  courage  was  tested  during  the  trying 
days  of  the  Revolution.  Her  mother,  Sarah,  was  a  daugh- 
ter of  Col.  WilHam  Hinton,  of  Craven  County,  N.  C. 
Lieut.-Col.  William  Alston  was  son  of  Major  James  Alston, 
of  New  Berne,  N.  C,  and  his  wife,  Christine  Lillington, 
daughter  of  George  Lillington  (colonel  in  the  British 
army ;  member  of  the  Royal  Council  of  Barbadoes,  and  its 
president,  1710-1714),  and  granddaughter  of  Alexander 
Lillington,  member  of  the  Colonial  Parliament  of  North  Cai*- 
olina  in  1677,  and  governor  in  1693. 

Major  James  Alston  was  the  son  of  Judge  John  Alston, 
associate  justice  of  North  Carolina,  1724-1730,  under  Gov. 
Barrington,  and  captain  and  major  in  the  Indian  wars. 
Judge  John  Alston  and  his  sons  patented  large  tracts  of 
land  in  old  Bertie,  Craven,  and  Edgecombe  counties,  N.  C, 
a  portion  of  which  proved  to  be  in  South  Carolina  when 
the  dividing  line  was  established.  Many  members  of  this 
family  have  occupied  positions  of  honor  in  colonial  times, 
and  during  the  Revolutionary  struggle,  and  since  in  the 
States.  The  family  is  English,  being  seated  in  Bedford- 
shire, Suffolk,  and  Essex. 

Catherine  Hamilton,  the  mother  of  Mrs.  H.  Coalter 
Cabell,  was  the  youngest  child  of  Major  Andrew  Hamilton, 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  589 

of  Abbeville,  S.  C.  He  was  born  in  Augusta  County,  Va., 
in  1741,  but  removed  to  Abbeville,  just  after  the  Indian 
massacre  there,  in  1762-1763.  He  served  during  the 
Revolution  as  captain  and  major  in  Gen.  Pickens'  (also  a 
native  of  Augusta  County,  Va.)  command.  In  1782,  was 
in  the  expedition  against  the  Cherokee  Indians.  After  the 
war.  Major  Hamilton  served  in  the  South  Carolina  legisla- 
ture for  many  years,  and  held  other  positions  of  trust  and 
honor.  He  died  January  19,  1835.  He  was  the  son  of  Ar- 
chibald Hamilton  and  his  wife,  Frances  Calhoun  (great-aunt 
of  John  C.  Calhoun),  who  came  to  this  country  in  1733, 
and  were  among  the  earliest  settlers  of  Augusta  County, 
Va.  Archibald  is  said  to  have  been  a  descendant  of  James 
Hamilton,  Earl  of  Arran,  who  was  regent  of  Scotland  dur- 
ing the  infancy  of  Mary  Stuart.  See  Waddell's  "Annals 
of  Augusta  County,"  pp.  51,  52. 

135.  Col.  H.  C.^  Cabell  left  issue  :  — 

i.  James  Alston  ^  Cabell,  b.  in  Richmond,  Va. ;  com- 
pleted his  education  at  the  University  of  Vir- 
ginia (1870-1873),  where  he  graduated  with  dis- 
tinction, especially  in  the  scientific  department. 
Some  of  his  articles  have  attracted  the  attention 
of  the  late  Professor  Joseph  Henry;  he  was, 
on  the  recommendation  of  that  distinguished 
physicist,  chosen  professor  of  chemistry  in  the 
Central  University  of  Kentucky,  where  he  con- 
tinued two  years,  when,  his  health  failing,  he 
resigned.  After  recuperating  his  health  he 
studied  law,  and  is  now  following  that  profes- 
sion in  Richmond,  Va.,  where  he  has  served  as 
a  member  of  the  city  council,  as  president  of 
the  Richmond  Athletic  Club,  as  director  of  the 
Virginia  Historical  Society,  etc.  He  is  a  ves- 
tryman of  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  Church,  presi- 
dent of  the  Virginia  Society  of  the  Cincinnati, 
member  of  the  American  Historical  Associa- 
tion, the  Virginia  Bar  Association,  Past  Master 


590  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

of  Metropolitan  Lodge  of  Masons,  and  is  now 
one  of  the  representatives  of  Richmond  in  the 
legislature. 

517.  ii.  Catherine  Hamilton  ^  Cabell. 

518.  iii.  Henry  Coalter  ^  Cabell. 

iv.  Julian  Mayo^  Cabell,  b.  in  Kichmond,  Va.,  De- 
cember 21,  1860 ;  completed  his  education  at 
the  University  of  Virginia,  where  he  graduated 
in  medicine  in  1886 ;  appointed  first  lieuten- 
ant and  assistant  surgeon  U.  S.  A.  April  14, 
1887 ;  served  in  the  field  throughout  the  Sioux 
campaign,  1890-1891 ;  promoted  captain  and 
assistant  surgeon  U.  S.  A.  April  14,  1892. 
V.  Clarence^  Cabell,  b.  in  Richmond,  Va. ;  a  grad- 
uate of  the  University  of  Virginia  ;  a  law  stu- 
dent at  Harvard  College,  Cambridge,  Mass. ;  a 
student  at  the  Universities  of  Paris  and  Leipsic. 
He  is  now  in  Paris,  France, 
vi.  Alfred  ^  Cabell,  d.  infant. 

517.  Catherine  Hamilton  ^  Cabell,  married,  February  1, 
1882,  Herbert  Augustine  Claiborne,  of  Richmond,  Va. ; 
lawyer,  captain  in  C.  S.  A.,  and  president  of  Mutual  Assur- 
ance Society  of  Virginia  (son  of  H.  A.  Claiborne,  of  King 
William  County  and  of  Richmond ;  member  of  the  Virginia 
legislature ;  soldier  in  the  War  of  1812  ;  lawyer).  He  de- 
scends from  the  emigrants :  William  Claiborne,  member  of 
the  Virginia  Council  (1625-1650),  etc.;  John  Carter,  a  Bur- 
gess (1649-1654),  etc.;  John  West,  governor  (1635-1637), 
etc. ;  Joseph  Crashaw,  member  of  the  Council  (1659),  etc. 
From  William  Eurnet,  governor  of  New  York,  New  Jersey, 
New  Hampshire,  and  Massachusetts,  1720-1729;  from  Wil- 
liam Browne,  who  settled  in  Salem,  Mass.,  1635,  judge,  etc.; 
and  from  Capt.  George  Curwen,  of  Workington,  Cumber- 
land County,  England,  who  settled  at  Salem,  Mass.,  in  1638. 
Children,  three  :  — 
i.  Jeanie  Alston  ^  Claiborne,  b.  July  18,  1883  ;  d.  Novem- 
ber 19,  1890. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     591 

ii.  Herbert  Augustine  ^  Claiborne, 
iii.  Hamilton  Cabell*^  Claiborne. 

518.  Henry  Coalter  ^  Cabell,  born  in  Richmond,  Va. ; 
graduated  at  United  States  Military  Academy,  West  Point, 
1883 ;  assigned  to  14tli  Infantry  U.  S.  A. ;  aide-de-cam.p  to 
Gen.  John  Gibbon  when  he  commanded  the  Department  of 
the  Columbia  and  the  Division  of  the  Pacific ;  appointed 
regimental  quartermaster  of  14th  Infantry,  January  16, 
1892 ;  married,  at  Portland,  Ore.,  February  14,  1894,  Emily 
Corbett  Failing,  daughter  of  Henry  Failing  (banker),  who 
came  to  Portland  from  New  York  in  1851,  and  his  wife, 
Emily  Corbett.  The  emigrant  ancestor  of  Mr.  Failing  was 
a  member  of  a  party  of  religious  refugees  from  the  Palati- 
nate, Avho  went  to  England,  became  British  subjects,  and 
subsequently  in  1709  came  to  America,  settling  first  near 
Albany,  N.  Y.,  and  afterwards  in  the  Mohawk  Valley,  near 
Fort  Plain.     The  name  was  originally  Filling. 

Emily  Corbett,  a  sister  of  United  States  Senator  Corbett, 
of  Oregon,  is  descended  from  a  Corbett  who  came  to 
America  prior  to  1683,  and  settled  near  Shrewsbury,  Mass. 
"  The  Corbetts  descend  from  Roger  Corbet,  a  Norman,  who 
went  over  to  England  at  the  Conquest." 


28.    DR.    GEORGE^    CABELL,    JR.'S    DESCENDANTS. 

136.  John  Nicholas  *  Cabell,  born  July  31,  1805 ;  a  doc- 
tor ;  went  to  Charleston,  Kanawha  County,  Va.,  and  then 
to  the  West.     He  married  Mary  Cargill ;  both  husband  and 
wife  soon  died,  leaving  an  only  child,  — 
519.  i.  Mary^    Cabell,   b.    March    17,   1839,  — who   was 
adopted  by  her   uncle.  Dr.   James  L.   Cabell,  of 
the  University  of  Virginia.     She  m.,  December 
5,  1860,  Mr.  Henry  B.  Auchincloss,  of   Orange, 
N.  J.,  eldest  son  of  the  late  John  Auchincloss,  a 
merchant  of  New  York,   son  of  Hugh   Auchin- 
closs, a  native  of  Scotland  and  an  elder  of  Rev. 


592  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

James  W.  Alexander's  church  in  New  York.     Is- 
sue :  — 

i.  Margaret  Cabell  ^   Auchincloss,  b.  October  1, 

1861. 
ii.  Henry  Stewart  ^  Auchincloss,    b.   1863 ;    d. 

1863. 
iii.  Arthur  Stirling  ^  Auchincloss,  b.  October  9, 

1867. 
iv.  Elizabeth  Belden  ^  Auchincloss,  b.  1869 ;  d. 

1876. 
V.  John  ^  Auchincloss,  b.  December  8,  1872. 
vi.  James     Cabell  ^     Auchincloss,    b.    1876 ;    d. 

1882. 
vii.  May  Dudley*^  Auchincloss,  b.  April  12,  1879. 


137.  Elizabeth  Clarentine^  Cabell,  born  at  Bon  Aire,  Nel- 
son County,  Va.,  January  11,  1809 ;  married,  at  Ingleside, 
Charlotte  County,  Va.,  by  Rev.  William  S.  Plumer,  June 
18,  1830,  to  Rev.  James  W.  Alexander.  During  the  Civil 
War  she  lived  in  the  Isle  of  Wight,  England,  and  after- 
wards with  her  sons  in  America.  She  died  at  the  residence 
of  her  brother.  Dr.  James  L.  Cabell,  in  Charlottesville,  in 
1885.  Her  remains  were  conveyed  to  Princeton,  N.  J.,  and 
interred  beside  those  of  her  husband. 

Rev.  James  Waddel  Alexander,  born  in  Louisa  County, 
Va.,  March  13,  1804  ;  graduated  at  Princeton,  1820 ;  a 
tutor  there,  1824-1825  ;  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian  Church 
in  Charlotte  County,  Va.,  1825-1827  ;  pastor  in  Trenton, 
N.  J.,  1828-1830;  editor  of  "The  Presbyterian,"  Philadel- 
phia, 1830-1833 ;  professor  of  rhetoric  and  belles-lettres 
in  the  College  of  New  Jersey,  1833-1844 ;  pastor  of  Duane 
Street  Presbyterian  Church,  New  York  city,  1844-1849; 
professor  of  ecclesiastical  history  and  church  government, 
Princeton  Theological  Seminary,  1849-1851 ;  made  D.  D. 
by  Lafayette  College  in  1848,  and  by  Harvard  in  1854; 
wrote  numerous  and  popular  works;  pastor  of  Fifth  Avenue 
Presbyterian  Church,  New  York,  1851  to  his  death  ;  died 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  593 

July  31,  1859,  at  the  Sweet  Springs,  Va.,  and  was  buried  at 
Princeton  by  the  side  of  his  father  and  mother.  "  Through- 
out his  Hfe  and  labors  he  illustrated  those  gifts  and  graces 
that  exalt  humanity  and  adorn  the  church  of  God."  His 
father's  epitaph  gives  an  outline  of  his  life :  "  Sacred  to 
the  memory  of  Archibald  Alexander,  doctor  of  divinity  and 
first  professor  in  the  Theological  Seminary  in  this  place 
[Princeton].  Born  in  what  is  now  Rockbridge  County, 
Va.,  April,  1772.  Licensed  to  preach  the  gospel,  October 
1,  1791 ;  ordained  by  the  Presbytery  of  Hanover,  June  9, 
1794 ;  a  pastor  in  Charlotte  and  Prince  Edward  for  some 
years ;  chosen  president  of  Hampden  Sidney  College  in 
1796 ;  pastor  of  the  Third  Presbyterian  Church  in  Philadel- 
phia in  1807  ;  professor  of  didactic  and  polemic  theology 
[Princeton]  in  1812.  He  departed  this  life  in  the  faith 
and  peace  of  Christ,  October  22,  1851.  Also  of  Janetta 
Waddel  Alexander,  for  fifty  years  his  faithful  and  beloved 
consort,  who  survived  him  less  than  one  year  ;  then,  cher- 
ished and  honored  by  those  who  knew  her,  slept  in  Jesus, 
September  7,  1852." 

Rev.  Archibald  Alexander  was  a  son  of  William  Alexan- 
der, born  March  22,  1738,  in  Nottingham,  Pa.  ;  came  with 
his  parents  to  Virginia  in  1747  ;  married,  in  February,  1767, 
Agnes  Ann  Reid,  of  "  Rockfish,"  in  the  present  county  of 
Nelson  (she  was  born  in  July,  1741;  died  October  14,  1825; 
daughter  of  Andrew  and  Sarah  Reid ;  see  140).  They 
first  settled  on  a  farm  on  South  River  (in  present  Rock- 
bridge County) ;  then  removed  to  the  North  River  ;  and 
finally  settled  in  Lexington,  where  they  both  died.  "  Wil- 
liam Alexander  was  an  active  man  of  business,  and  more 
anxious  for  the  improvement  of  his  children  than  most 
of  his  contemporaries."  He  died  January  1,  1797.  His 
father,  Archibald  Alexander,  born  in  Manor  Cunningham, 
Ireland,  February  4,  1708,  emigrated,  about  1736-1737, 
to  America  (with  his  brothers  William  and  Robert) ;  settled 
first  near  Nottingham,  Pa.;  in  1747,  followed  his  brother 
Robert  to  Virginia,  and  located  in  the  present  Rockbridge 


594  THE   CABELLS  AND  THEIR  KIN 

County.  He  was  a  captain  in  "  The  Sandy  Creek  Voyage  " 
against  the  Indians  in  1756 ;  one  o£  the  first  magistrates  of 
Rockbridge,  April  7,  1778,  and  the  first  sheriff. 

Janetta  AVaddel,  wife  of  Rev.  Archibald  Alexander,  was 
a  daughter  of  Rev.  James  Waddel,  "  the  blind  preacher  " 
of  William  Wirt's  "The  Spy,"  born  in  July,  1739,  in  the 
North  of  Ireland,  and  came  with  his  parents  to  America  in 
the  same  year ;  they  settled  in  Pennsylvania.  He  came  to 
Virginia  about  1759 ;  was  licensed  to  preach  at  Tinkling 
Spring,  Augusta  County,  April  2,  1761;  minister  in  Lan- 
caster County,  Va.,  1762-1766 ;  in  Augusta,  1766  to  after 
1783,  then  removed  to  his  place  called  "  Hopewell,"  near 
Gordonsville,  where  he  died,  September  17,  1805.  He  mar- 
ried, October  7, 1767,  Mary  Gordon,  daughter  of  Col.  James 
Gordon,  born  at  Newry,  Ireland,  1714 ;  came  to  Virginia 
about  1738;  died  in  Lancaster  County,  June  2,  1768.  He 
married,  November  12,  1718,  Mary  Harrison  (1731-May 
13,  1771),  daughter  of  Col.  Nathaniel  Harrison,  of  Surry 
(born  August  8,  1677 ;  naval  officer,  etc.,  in  the  upper  dis- 
trict of  James  River,  1710  ;  on  the  commission  to  settle 
the  line  between  Virginia  and  North  Carolina,  April-Octo- 
ber, 1710 ;  member  of  the  Virginia  Council  from  January 
27,  1714 ;  county  lieutenant  of  Surry,  etc. ;  died  November 
30,  1727 ;  son  of  Benjamin  (1645-1713)  and  Hannah 
Harrison). 

137.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  ^  Cabell  Alexander  had  issue :  — 
i.  George  CabelP  Alexander,  b.  1831;  d.  1839. 
ii.  Archibald '  Alexander,  b.  1832  ;  d.  1834. 

520.  iii.  Henry  Carrington  ^  Alexander. 

521.  iv.  James  WaddeP  Alexander. 

V.  John  '  Alexander,  b.  1845  ;  d.  1847. 

522.  vi.  William  ^  Alexander. 

vii.  Janetta  ^  Alexander,  b.  1850 ;  d.  1851. 

520.  Henry  Carrington  ^  Alexander,  born  September  27, 
1835,  at  Princeton,  N.  J. ;  graduated  from  the  College  of 
New  Jersey  in  1854 ;  from  Princeton  Theological  Seminary 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  595 

in  1858,  in  which  year  he  was  licensed  to  preach  by  the  Pres- 
bytery of  New  York ;  labored  in  that  city  for  some  months, 
then  came  to  the  village  church  at  Charlotte  Court  House, 
where  his  father  and  grandfather  had  labored  before  him, 
and  where  he  was  himself  ordained  by  Roanoke  Presbytery 
and  installed  as  pastor  in  1861,  and  so  continued  until 
1870.  In  January,  1870,  he  became  professor  of  "  Biblical 
Literature  and  New  Testament  Interpretation"  in  Union 
Theological  Seminary,  Prince  Edward  County,  Va.,  and 
continued  to  hold  this  position  till  his  peremptory  resigna- 
tion in  1891.  He  was  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian  churches 
of  Oakland,  Md.,  and  Terra  Alta,W.  Va.,  from  1891  to  his 
death.  In  1894,  he  attended  at  the  College  of  New  Jersey, 
Princeton,  the  4:0th  anniversary  of  his  graduation,  then  vis- 
ited his  brother  William  in  New  York,  and  died  at  his  resi- 
dence, June  28,  1894.  The  funeral  services  were  held  in 
Princeton,  N.  J.,  on  the  30th.  They  were  conducted  by 
Professor  Green,  of  Princeton  Seminary,  assisted  by  the 
Rev.  Harry  Moore,  of  Keyser,  W.  Va.,  Rev.  Dr.  Roberts,  of 
New  York,  and  Rev.  Dr.  Hinsdale,  pastor  of  the  old  First 
Church  of  Princeton.  His  grave  is  in  the  old  Princeton 
cemetery,  adjoining  those  of  his  grandfather,  father,  his 
mother,  and  his  uncles. 

Dr.  Alexander  published  a  memoir  of  his  distinguished 
relative.  Dr.  Addison  Alexander.  He  was  the  author  of 
numerous  articles  in  magazines  and  reviews.  He  was  a  co- 
laborer  of  mine  in  the  compilation  of  several  portions  of 
this  book.  In  the  magnitude,  minuteness,  and  accuracy  of 
his  learning,  Dr.  Alexander  had  few  equals.  It  was  said 
of  him  in  Prince  Edward  that  "  he  knew  everybody,  loved 
everybody,  and  everybody  loved  him."     He  never  married. 

521.  James  WaddeP  Alexander,  born  July  19,  1839; 
graduated  at  the  College  of  New  Jersey,  1860 ;  was  a  law- 
yer of  the  firm  of  Alexander  &  Green,  and  came  to  the  Equi- 
table Life  Assurance  Society,  N.  Y.,  as  secretary.  He  is 
now  (1894)  first  vice-president.  He  married  in  November, 
1864,  EHzabeth  Beasley  Williamson,  and  has  :  — 


596  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR   KIN 

523.     i.  Elizabeth  Swan  Williamson  ^  [Bessie]  Alexander, 
ii.  Henry  Martyn  ^  Alexander,  Jr.,  b.  in  New  York, 

January  25,  1869. 
iii.  James  Waddel''  Alexander,  Jr.,  b.  1876;  d.  1878. 
iv.  Frederick  Beasley  *^  Alexander,  b.   in  New  York, 
August  6,  1880. 
523.  Elizabeth  S.  W.*^  Alexander,   born  in   New  York, 
September  30,  1865  ;  married,  in  1887,  John  White  Alex- 
ander, of  New  York,  a  native  of  Pittsburgh,  Pa.     Now  a 
resident  of   Paris ;  a  portrait-painter  of  eminence,   having 
received  a  great  number  of  important  medals ;  was  elected 
an  associate  of  the  new  Salon  in  1893,  and  a  full  member 
of  tliat  body  in  1894.     They  have  one  child  :  — 
i.  James  Waddel  ^  Alexander,  b.  1888. 

522.  William^  Alexander,  born  September  5,  1848; 
University  of  Virginia,  1866-1868;  is  secretary  of  The 
Equitable  Life  Assurance  Society  of  the  United  States,  120 
Broadway,  New  York.  He  married,  in  1887,  Frances  Gor- 
don Paddock,  eldest  daughter  of  the  late  Franklin  Paddock, 
a  prominent  New  York  lawyer,  and  his  wife,  Annie  Gordon, 
daughter  of  a  very  prominent  lawyer  of  Delhi,  N.  Y.  They 
have  one  child,  a  daughter  :  — 
i.  Frances  °  Alexander,  b.  October  2,  1888. 


138.  James  Lawrence*  Cabell,  born  in  Nelson  County, 
Va.,  August  26,  1813;  at  the  University  of  Virginia, 
1829-1833,  graduated  M.  A. ;  in  the  medical  department 
of  University  of  Maryland,  at  Baltimore,  1834,  graduated 
M.  D. ;  but  continued  his  studies  at  the  Baltimore  alms- 
house and  in  the  Philadelphia  hospitals,  1834-1835,  and  in 
Paris,  France,  1836-1837.  He  received  the  appointment 
of  professor  of  anatomy,  surgery,  and  physiology  in  the 
medical  department  of  the  University  of  Virginia  while  he 
was  in  Paris  in  the  winter  of  1837,  and  at  once  returned 
to  Virginia  and  took  the  charge.  In  1849,  the  chair  of 
anatomy  was  turned  over  to  a  special  professor,  while  Dr. 


DR.   JAMES    LAWRENCE  CABELL 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  597 

Cabell  continued  to  instruct  in  physiology  and  surgery,  and 
held  that  position  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was  chair- 
man of  the  faculty  in  1846-1847,  but  declined  a  renomina- 
tion.  PubHshed  "  The  Unity  of  the  Human  Race  "  in  1858. 
With  the  exception  of  a  few  months  in  1862,  he  was  chief 
surgeon  of  the  Confederate  hospitals  at  Charlottesville  from 
July,  1861,  until  the  end  of  the  war.  The  degree  of  LL.  D. 
was  conferred  upon  him  by  Hampden  Sidney  College    in 

1873.  In  1876,  he  was  chosen  president  of  the  Medical 
Society  of  Virginia,  and  was  a  corresponding  member  of 
several  other  medical  societies  in  this  country.  He  was 
president  of  the  National  Board  of  Health,  1879-1884,  and 
for  one  year  president  of  the  American  Public  Health  Asso- 
ciation. In  December,  1887,  he  completed  fifty  years'  ser- 
vice as  professor  in  the  university.  The  doctor  was  fully 
abreast  with  the  most  advanced  men  of  his  time.  He  did 
as  much  as  any  man  to  elevate  the  standard  of  education, 
and  to  widen  the  reputation  of  the  university.  He  married, 
February  5,  1839,  Miss  Margaret  Gibbons,  who  died  in 

1874,  s.  p.     He  died  August  13,  1889. 


29.    ELIZABETH  2   CABELL   HARE's   DESCENDANTS. 

139.  Hannah  Heningham*  Hare,  born  March  9,  1798; 
married,  June  20,  1823,  Bennet  Anderson  Crawford,  of 
Amherst,  and  died  November  11,  1823.  Bennet  A.  Craw- 
ford (born  August  12,  1794),  after  his  wife's  death,  re- 
moved to  New  Orleans,  La.  He  died  in  Natchez,  Miss. 
See  "  The  Crawford  Book,"  compiled  for  Mrs.  Vanderbilt. 
He  was  the  son  of  Nelson  (brother  to  Rev.  Charles)  Craw- 
ford, by  his  wife,  Lucy  (sister  to  Rev.  William)  Crawford, 
who  was  Mrs.  Vanderbilt's  srrandaunt. 


140.  Sarah  Elizabeth  ^  Hare,  born  August  5,  1800 ;  mar- 
ried at  Montevideo,  by  Rev.  William  S.  Reid,  February  22, 
1821,  to  Col.  Samuel  McDowell  Reid.  She  died  August  5, 
1839.    Col.  Samuel  McD.  Reid  was  born  October  21,  1790 ; 


698  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

educated  at  Washington  Academy;  farmer;  clerk  of  the 
county  court  of  Rockbridge  ;  clerk  of  the  circuit  court, 
1831-1858 ;  member  of  the  Virginia  legislature ;  trustee  of 
Washington  College,  1819-1869;  died  September  15,  1869. 
He  was  the  son  of  Andrew  Reid  and  his  wife,  Magdalen 
McDowell. 

Andrew  Reid,  born  February  13,  1751 ;  married  in  1776  ; 
clerk  of  Rockbridge  County,  Va. ;  died  in  October,  1837. 
He  was  a  son  of  Andrew  Reid  (by  his  wife,  Sarah  Reid,  his 
first  cousin),  who  came  from  Ireland,  when  14  years  old, 
with  his  father ;  was  among  the  early  settlers  of  old  Albe- 
marle County ;  died  about  1765.  His  father,  Andrew 
Reid,  and  two  brothers  (Thomas  and  John),  emigrated  from 
County  Down,  Ireland.  They  settled  first  in  Octoraro, 
about  eighteen  miles  from  Lancaster,  Pa.,  where  the  Shaw- 
nee Indians  were  their  neighbors.  They  afterwards  moved 
to  Virginia,  different  members  of  the  family  settling  in 
Augusta  and  Albemarle  counties.  The  wiU  of  Andrew 
Reid,  the  emigrant,  dated  January  30,  1748,  was  recorded 
in  Albemarle  May  14,  1751. 

Sarah  Reid  (daughter  of  John  and  wife  of  Andrew  Reid, 
who  died  about  1765)  was  murdered  in  old  Amherst  County 
by  a  negro  man  while  on  her  way  to  a  neighbor's.  On 
July  3,  1764,  his  Majesty's  commission  of  oyer  and  terminer 
was  produced  for  the  trial  of  Peter,  a  negro  man  belonging 
to  Andrew  Reid.  The  commission  was  to  William  Cabell, 
Jr.,  presiding  justice  of  the  peace,  David  Crawford,  Daniel 
Burford,  Cornelius  Thomas,  John  Rose,  and  Zacharias  Tali- 
aferro, Gentlem^en.  John  Harvie,  the  king's  attorney,  in- 
formed the  court  that  Peter,  a  negro  man,  with  force  and 
arms  had  feloniously  murdered  Sarah  Reid.  Peter  was  led 
to  the  bar  by  James  Nevill,  the  sheriff.  He  confessed  his 
guilt,  and  said  he  had  nothing  further  to  say.  He  was 
condemned  to  be  hung. 

Magdalen  McDowell  (the  wife  of  Andrew  Reid  (1751- 
1837),  born  about  1756;  died  in  1837)  was  the  eldest 
daughter  of  Samuel  McDowell,  born  October  19,  1735,  in 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN      599 

Pennsylvania ;  married,  January  17,  1754,  Mary  McClung, 
a  native  of  the  North  of  Ireland ;  a  soldier  in  the  French 
and  Indian  War ;  a  captain  at  Point  Pleasant,  October  10, 
1774 ;  a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  prior  to  the 
Revolution;  a  member  of  the  Revolutionary  conventions;  a 
captain  and  a  colonel  in  that  war;  removed  to  Kentucky  in 
1783,  where  he  became  a  judge,  and  an  active  man  in  the 
founding  of  that  commonwealth;  died  September  25,  1817, 
near  Danville,  Ky.  He  was  a  son  (by  his  wife,  Magdalen 
Woods)  of  CajDt.  John  McDowell,  who  was  killed  by  Indians 
at  Balcony  Falls,  Va.,  December  25,  1743,  whose  father, 
Ephraim  McDowell,  when  a  youth  of  16,  was  conspicuous 
in  the  defense  of  Londonderry,  Ireland,  in  1688;  emigrated 
to  Pennsylvania  in  1729 ;  came  with  his  son  John  to  Vir- 
ginia in  1737,  and  died  in  Augusta  County,  Va.,  "not  long 
before  the  Revolution,  aged  over  100  years." 

Magdalen  Woods  (who  married,  first,  John  McDowell 
aforesaid  in  Pennsylvania  in  1734)  was  a  daughter  of 
Michael  Woods,  Sr.  (son  of  John  Woods,  of  County  Meath, 
Ireland,  by  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Worsop,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Worsop,  and  a  descendant  from  Adam  Loftus,  Lord  High 
Chancellor  of  Ireland  temio.  Elizabeth),  who  was,  so  far  as  I 
have  been  able  to  find  out,  the  first  of  the  stream  of  emi- 
grants down  the  west  side  of  the  mountains  to  come  over 
the  mountain  and  acquire  land  in  Albemarle.  He  crossed 
at  Woods'  (now  Jarman's)  Gap ;  on  June  10,  1737,  he  pa- 
tented 1337  acres  of  land  on  the  head-waters  of  Medium's 
River,  including  said  gap,  and  piu-chased  2000  acres  from 
Charles  Hudson,  Gent.,  of  Hanover,  on  Ivy  Creek,  in  the 
present  county  of  Albemarle.  Hon.  Micajah  Woods,  the 
present  commonwealth's  attorney  of  that  county,  is  a  lineal 
descendant  from  him.  His  will,  dated  November  24,  1761, 
was  recorded  in  the  court  of  that  county  June  11,  1762. 

140.  Mrs.  Sarah  E.*  Reid  had  issue  :  — 

i.  Andrew^  Reid,  b.  1822 ;  d.  1823. 
ii.  William  Hare  '  Reid,  b.  November  28,  1823  ; 
at  Washington  College,  1840-1841 ;  d.  July 
7,  1842 ;  unmarried. 


600  THE   CABELLS   AND   THEIR  KIN 

iii.  Henry  Cabell  ^  Reid,  b.  September  7,  1828  ;  at 
Washington  College,  1841-1842  ;  d.  February 
28,  1844;  unmarried. 

iv.  Elizabeth  Hannah^  Reid,  b.  1829;  d.  1831. 

524.  V.  Mary  Louisa  ^  Reid. 

vi.  Samuel  McDowell'  Reid,  b.  June  23,  1835; 
at  Washington  College,  1854-1855;  d.  October 
25,  1856 ;  unmarried. 

525.  vii.  Agnes  Jane '  Reid. 

524.  Mary  Louisa '  Reid,  born  July  20,  1832 ;  married, 
July  14,  1858,  in  Lexington,  Va.,  Prof.  James  Jones 
White.  [He  Avas  born  in  Nottoway  County,  Va.,  November 
7,  1828;  professor  of  Greek  in  Washington  College  and 
Washington  and  Lee  University  (save  a  period  during  the 
war,  when  he  was  captain  in  C.  S.  A.)  from  1852  to  his 
death,  April  29,  1893.  He  was  the  son  of  Rev.  William  S. 
White,  D.  D.,  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  Virginia.  See 
"  The  Life,  Influence,  and  Services  of  James  Jones  White," 
by  Hon.  John  Randolph  Tucker.]     Issue  :  — 

526.  i.  Sallie  Hare  ^  White. 

ii.  Isabelle^  White,  b.  June  17,  1861. 
iii.  McDowell  Reid*^  White,  b.  1863;  d.  1866. 

527.  iv.  Agnes  Reid  ^  White. 

V.  William  Cabell^  White,  b.  October  24,  1865. 

vi.  Reid''  White,  b.  March  28,  1868;  Washington 
and  Lee  University,  1886-1887  ;  M.  D.,  Lex- 
ington, Va. 

526.  SaUie  Hare'  White,  born  February  29,  1860;  mar- 
ried, in  1884,  Hehn  Bruce,  attorney  at  law,  of  the  firm 
Helm  &  Bruce,  Louisville,  Ky.,  where  they  reside  and 
have  :  — 

i.  James  White ^  Bruce,  b.  in  October,  1886. 
ii.  Louise  Reid^  Bruce,  b.  in  September,  1888. 
iii.  EHzabeth  Barbour"^  Bruce,  b.  in  March,  1890. 

527.  Agnes  Reid  '^  White,  b.  July  14,  1864 ;  married,  in 
1885,  Joel  W.  Goldsby,  attorney  at  law,  of  Mobile,  Ala. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     601 

He  was  one  of  the  representatives  of  Mobile  in  the  Alabama 
legislature,  1893-1894.     They  have  :  — 
i.  Mary  Easley^  Goldsby,  b.  April,  1887. 
ii.  Louise  Reid^  Goldsby,  b.  SejDtember,  1889. 
Hi.  Isabelle  White'  Goldsby,  b.  February  14,  1893. 

525.  Agnes  Jane^  Reid,  born  February  20,  1838;  mar- 
ried, April  7,  1862,  John  De  Hart  Ross  [son  of  William  B. 
Ross,  Esq.,  of  Culpeper  County,  Va.,  by  his  wife,  Elizabeth 
Thom,  daughter  of  Col.  John  Thorn,  of  "  Berry  Hill,"  Cul- 
peper County,  Va.,  by  his  wife,  Abby  Mayo,  daughter  of 
Joseph  Hearne  Mayo  (by  his  wife,  Elizabeth  D.  Blair, 
daughter  of  Rev.  John  D.  Blair,  the  first  Presbyterian  min- 
ister of  Richmond,  Va.),  son  of  William  Mayo  (by  his  wife, 
Elizabeth  Bland  Poythress,  daughter  of  Peter  Poythress, 
Esq.,  of  Branchester,  by  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Bland),  son  of 
Col.  John  Mayo  (by  his  wife,  Mary  Tabb),  son  of  Col.  Wil- 
liam Mayo,  the  emigrant,  by  his  second  wife,  Ann  Perratt.] 
Issue :  — 

i.  William  Alexander'  Ross,  b.  May  20,  1865;  at  Wash- 
ington and  Lee  University,  1883-1884;  civil  engi- 
neer. 

ii.  Mary  Louisa  Reid'^  Ross,  b.  1869;  d.  1874. 
iii.  Agnes  Reid'  Ross,  b.  January  24,  1872. 
iv.  Elizabeth  Mayo '  Ross,  b.  February  28,  1874. 

V.  John  McDowell'  Ross,  b.  April  10,  1876. 
vi.  May  Cameron '  Ross,  b.  August  1,  1878. 


31.    NICHOLAS  3   CABELL,    JR.'s   DESCENDANTS. 

141.  Nathaniel  Francis*  Cabell,  b.  at  Warminster,  Nel- 
son County,  Va.,  July  23,  1807.  "  His  father  dying  (June 
25,  1809)  when  he  was  an  infant,  his  religious  education 
was  entirely  in  the  hands  of  his  mother,  who  was  a  strict 
and  exemplary  member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  which 
in  those  parts  had  already  taken  the  place  of  the  old  Colo- 
nial Episcopacy."     He  graduated  at  Hampden  Sidney  Col- 


602  THE  CABELLS   AND  THEIR  KIN 

lege  in  1825 ;  at  Harvard  College,  Cambridge  Mass.,  as  B. 
L.,  in  1827  ;  located  in  Prince  Edward  County,  Va.,  1827- 
1831;  joined  the  Presbyterian  Church,  and  soon  thereafter, 
on  September  14,  1831,  married  Anne  Blaws  Cocke.  He 
had  succeeded  to  the  "  Liberty  Hall "  estate  in  Nelson,  and 
in  1832  he  returned  to  his  native  place  (though  for  several 
years  he  lived  in  Warminster,  in  the  house  previously  occu- 
pied by  Dr.  William  B.  Hare),  where  he  continued  to  reside 
until  his  removal  to  Bedford  City. 

"  In  various  ways  he  gradually  became  acquainted  with 
the  writinofs  of  Emanuel  Swedenborg-.  .  .  .  But  it  was  to 
his  intercourse  with  the  late  Richard  K.  Cralle,  of  Lynch- 
burg, a  connection  of  his  own,  and  the  biograj)her  of  Mr. 
Calhoun,  more  than  to  any  other  circumstance,  that  he  was 
disposed  to  ascribe  his  conversion  to  the  new  faith.  He 
was,  however,  also  strongly  influenced  by  reading  certain 
books,  and  by  the  example  of  several  of  his  kindred.  He 
withdrew  from  the  Presbyterian  communion  February  26, 
1837.  His  wife  stood  with  him  in  this  movement,  and  his 
family  were  brought  up  in  the  new  views." 

He  published  in  the  "New  Jerusalem  Magazine"  a  series 
of  "Excerpts,  or  Readings  with  my  Pencil,"  1840-1842, 
and  later  on  many  other  articles,  contributing  at  the  same 
time  to  the  "  New-Churchman  ;  "  was  baptized  into  the  New 
Church  by  Rev.  Richard  De  Charms  in  1842 ;  wrote  "  An 
Article  on  the  New  Christian  Church  for  Rupp's  '  History  of 
all  Religious  Denominations  in  the  United  States,'  "  pub- 
lished at  Philadelphia,  1844,  which  was  enlarged  and  repub- 
lished at  Harrisburg,  Pa.,  1847.  He  revisited  his  friends  in 
Boston,  Mass.,  in  1847,  a  visit  which  he  always  remembered 
with  pleasure.  His  "  Reply  to  Professor  Pond's  Review  of 
Swedenborgianism,  with  a  '  Preliminary  Letter '  by  Richard 
K.  Cralle,"  was  published  in  New  York,  1848,  and  the  same 
year,  in  Philadelphia,  "  A  Letter  on  a  Trinal  Order  for  the 
Ministry  of  the  New  Church,"  which  was  again  published 
in  1857.  He  was  once  the  Whig  candidate  to  represent 
his  county  in  the  House  of  Delegates,  but  was  not  elected. 


NATHANIEL   FRANCIS   CABELL,    ESQ, 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN      603 

He  wrote  divers  "  Essays  on  Agriculture,"  "  The  Black 
Race  in  North  America,"  etc. ;  delivered  an  address  at  Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio,  in  1857,  on  "  The  Progress  of  Literature 
during  the  Preceding  Century,  when  viewed  from  a  Re- 
ligious Standpoint ;  "  edited  the  Jefferson  and  Cabell  cor- 
respondence, 1857  ;  rearranged  and  edited  in  part  "  The 
Lee  Papers,"  portions  of  which  appeared  in  17  numbers  of 
the  "  Southern  Literary  Messenger,"  1858-1860  ;  contrib- 
uted to  the  Memoirs,  etc.,  of  Professor  George  Bush,  which 
were  published  in  New  York  in  1860 ;  compiled  "  The 
Triads  of  Scripture,  containing  more  than  Two  Thousand 
Proofs  of  the  Principle,  deduced  from  Scripture,"  of  which 
only  the  introductory  chapter  (pp.  36)  has  been  published, 
Lynchburg,  1868.  His  "  Theology  of  Paul "  appeared  as 
a  serial,  under  the  title  "  Horse  Paulinse,"  in  the  "  New 
Jerusalem  Messenger,"  New  York,  1873-1874.  Although 
he  wrote  especially  for  the  church  of  his  adoption,  he  num- 
bered among  his  attached  friends  many  members  of  other 
organizations.  From  1832  to  his  death,  he  took  an  especial 
interest  in  his  family  history,  and  compiled  in  manuscript 
the  family  memoirs,  "  Cabelliana,"  "  Carringtoniana,"  etc. 
For  twenty  years  he  was  my  neighbor  and  my  friend.  His 
library  and  his  manuscripts  were  always  open  to  me.  The 
last  few  years  of  his  life  were  spent  at  the  residence  of  his 
son-in-law,  R.  Kenna  Campbell,  in  Bedford  City,  where  he 
died,  September  1,  1891.  He  was  buried  in  the  Cabell 
cemetery  at  "  Liberty  Hall." 

He  married  (second),  in  1867,  Mary  M.  Keller,  of  Balti- 
more, who  died  s.  p. 

His  first  wife,  the  mother  of  his  children,  Anne  Blaws 
Cocke  (born  December  15,  1811;  died  February  20,  1862; 
buried  at  "  Liberty  Hall),"  was  a  daughter  of  Gen.  John 
Hartwell  Cocke, — born  September  19,  1780  ;  William  and 
Mary  College,  1794-1799;  brigadier-general,  War  of  1812; 
died  July  1,  1866  (by  his  wife,  Anne  Blaws,  daughter  of 
Dr.  Philip  Barraud,  of  Norfolk,  Va.),  —  son  of  John  Hart- 
well  Cocke,   born  November  26,  1749,  died  February  9, 


G04  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

1791  (by  his  Avife,  Elizabeth  Kennon,  born  July  13,  1755; 
died  July  10, 1791;  daughter  of  Robert  Kennon,  of  Mount 
Pleasant,  Chesterfield  County,  Va.,  by  his  "wife,  Sarah, 
daug-hter  of  Sir  William  Skipwith,  Baronet),  son  of  Hart- 
well  Cocke  (by  his  wife,  Anne,  daughter  of  John  Ruffin,  of 
Rich  Neck,  in  Surry  County,  Va.),  son  of  Richard  Cocke 
(by  his  first  Avife,  Ehzabeth  Hartwell),  son  of  Richard  Cocke, 
Sr.,  of  Bremo  (by  his  second  wife),  son  of  Richard  Cocke 
(1639-1706),  the  son  of  Col.  Richard  Cocke,  the  emigrant. 
(See  page  378.) 

141.  N.  F.^  and  Anne  Blaws  Cabell  had  issue  six :  — 
i.  Frances  Hartwell^  Cabell,  b.  1833  ;  d.  1844. 

528.  ii.  Elizabeth  Nicholas  Cabell,  b.  July  16,  1834 ;  d. 

April  5,  1863 ;  m.,  September  7,    1855,   her 
cousin,  William  D.  Cabell  (253). 

529.  iii.  Phihp  Barraud  CabeU. 
iv.  Sallie  Faulcon  Cabell. 

530.  V.  Frances    Grace  ^    Cabell,  b.    July   16,    1852 ;  m., 

June  7,  1876,  her  cousin,  R.  K.  Campbell  (469). 
vi.  Cary  Charles  Cabell,  b.  1854;  d.  1856. 

529.  PhiHp  B.5  Cabell,  born  June  16,  1836 ;  completed 
his  education  at  the  University  of  Virginia,  1853-1857, 
taking  the  M.  A.  degree ;  married,  February  27,  1861', 
Julia  Calvert  Boiling ;  served  for  a  while  on  the  staff  of 
his  uncle,  Gen.  Philip  St.  George  Cocke,  C.  S.  A. ;  farmed 
for  a  while  at  "  Laneville,"  residing  at  "  Edgewood  ;  " 
principal  of  Female  College,  Greensboro',  Ala.  ;  professor 
at  Urbana  University,  Urbana,  Ohio  ;  now  minister  of  the 
Swedenborgian  Church,  Wilmington,  Del. 

Mrs.  Julia  Calvert  Boiling  Cabell  is  a  daughter  of  Thomas 
Bolhng,  of  "  Boiling  Hall,"  Goochland  (by  his  wife,  Mary 
Louisa  Morris,  daughter  of  Richard  Morris,  of  Hanover, 
attorney  at  law,  member  of  the  Virginia  Convention,  1829- 
1830,  etc.  (by  his  wife,  a  sister  of  Gen.  Edward  Watts) ;  son 
of  William  Morris  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Col. 
William  Dabney,  of  Aldringham ;  see  under  No.  489) ;  son 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN      605 

of  William  Boiling,  colonel  o£  cavalry  in  the  War  of  1812, 
member  of  the  House  of  Delegates,  etc.  (by  his  wife,  Mary, 
daughter  of  Richard  and  Anne  Meade  Randolph;  see  under 
No.  18) ;  son  of  Thomas  Boiling,  born  July  7,  1735,  died 
August  7, 1804  (by  his  wife,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Dr.  Wil- 
liam Gay,  by  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Boiling,  daughter  of  Col. 
John  and  Mary  Kennon  Boiling) ;  son  of  Major  John  and 
Elizabeth  Blair  Boiling.     (See  under  No.  18.) 

Mrs.  Cabell,  one  of  the  most  celebrated  of  the  celebrated 
ante-bellum  belles  of  Virginia,  was  familiarly  known  as 
"  Pinkie  Boiling."     She  has  had  issue  four  :  — 
i.  Elizabeth  Nicholas '^  Cabell,  b.  1861;  d.  1862. 
ii.  Jose23h  Hartwell  Cabell,  b.  December  24, 1863  ;  attorney 

at  law,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
iii.  Francis  Barraud  Cabell,  b.  July  14, 1866 ;  d.  November 

22,  1893,  and  was  buried  at  "Liberty  Hall." 
iv.  Philip  Mason  Cabell,  b.  January  4,  1869 ;  m.,  October 

15,   1894,  Nannine  Dove  Sioussat,  of  Washington, 

D.  C. 

32.   MARY   ANN^   CABELL   CARRINGTON's   DESCENDANTS. 

142.  Joseph  Nicholas  ^  Carrington,  born  March  31, 1806  ; 
married,  in  1830,  Mary  Frances  JefPerson,  daughter  of 
John  Jefferson,  of  Amelia  County,  Va. ;  and  died  June  24, 
1843.     Issue  six  :  — 

531.  i.  Mary  Ann  ^  Carrington. 

ii.  Benjamin  Garland  Carrington,  d.  infant. 

532.  iii.  William  Cornelius  Carrinofton. 

iv.  Walter  Benjamin  Carrington,  d.  young. 
V.  Martha  Garland  Carrington,  d.  young, 
vi.  Frances  Josephine  Carrington,  d.  young. 
531.  Mary  Ann^  Carrington,  born    October  11,   1831; 
married,  August  25,  1849,  Thomas  P.  Fitzpatrick,  attorney 
at  law  of  Nelson  County.     He  has  represented  the  county 
several  times  in  the  Virginia  legislature,  and  is  now  county 
judge.     His   first   wife   died  July  4,  1857,  leaving  issue 
three :  — 


606  THE  CABELLS  AND   THEIR  KIN 

533.  i.  Walter  Carrington  ^  Fitzpatrick,  b.  June  24, 1851 ; 

a  leading  farmer,  merchant,  and  man  of  affairs 
of  Nelson  County ;  m.  Emma  M.  Wheeler,  and 
has  issue  seven  :  i.  John  Thomas  ^ ;  ii.  Mary 
Louise ;  iii.  Mabel ;  iv.  William  Pettet ;  v.  Carrie 
Jefferson  ;  vi.  Lillie  Carrington  ;  and  vii.  Clare 
Flfzj^atrick. 

534.  ii.  Mary    Ohvia'    Fitzpatrick,    b.   May  2,  1853;  m. 

James  Meredith  Bickers,  Esq.,  and  has :  i. 
Thomas  Meredith  ^  ;  ii.  William  Massie  ;  iii. 
Pearl ;  and  iv.  Carrington  Bickei's. 

535.  iii.  James  Penn*^  Fitzpatrick,  b.  November  20,  1855; 

m.  Elizabeth  S.  Brent,  and  has  :  i.  Thomas ' 
Fitzpatrick. 
532.  William  Cornelius  ^  Carrington,  born  in  Cumberland 
County,  Va.,  May  26,  1835 ;  graduated  at  Hampden  Sidney 
College,  and  afterwards  studied  law  under  Judge  Brocken- 
brough  in  Lexington  ;  licensed  to  j^ractice  in  1856,  and 
settled  at  Lovingston,  Nelson  County,  Va.,  where  he  re- 
mained until  1859,  when  he  removed  to  Howardsville.  He 
entered  the  C.  S.  A.  as  a  lieutenant  in  the  19th  Virginia 
Infantry,  and  was  later  a  lieutenant  in  the  5th  Virginia 
Cavalry,  in  which  he  served  under  General  Lomax  to  the 
end  of  the  Avar  ;  jDresident  of  the  Piedmont  Insurance  Com- 
pany, 1867  ;  president  of  the  Arlington  Insurance  Company 
of  Richmond,  Va.,  1869  ;  mayor  of  Richmond  City,  1876 
to  1888  ;  after  a  long  illness,  died  September  25, 1890.  He 
married,  October  22,  1857,  Mary  E.  Loving,  daughter  of 
the  late  John  H.  Loving,  of  Nelson  County,  Va.,  and  had 
issue  :  — 
i.  Percy  L."^  Carrington,  b.  August  16,  1858  ;  d.  1884 ; 

unmarried, 
ii.  Carter  Irving  ^  Carrington,  b.  March  9,  1861 ;  m.,  Feb- 
ruary 8,  1893,  Nannie  A.  Perrott. 
iii.  Lillie  G.*^   Carrington,   m.,  July   28,   1887,   James   H. 

Hoofnagle,  of  Richmond,  Va. 
iv.  Reid  CS'  Carrington,  M.  D. 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN     607 

V.  William  C.  Carrington,  Jr.  (b.   October  13,  1870),  of 

Colorado. 
vi.  Grace  D.^  Carrington,  b.  October  6,  1872. 

143.  Sophonisba  *  Carringtoii,  born  July  20,  1809,  mar- 
ried, February  25,  1835,  Dr.  Nathaniel  P.  Powell  (born  in 
1796 ;  died  in  January,  1878),  of  Nelson  County,  Va., 
whose  first  wife  was  Jane  Megginson  (309) ;  son  of  Benja- 
min Powell  (by  his  wife,  Jane  Cooper),  a  brother  of  Mrs. 
Rebecca  Powell  Thompson  (the  mother  of  Judge  Lucas 
Powell  Thompson),  and  a  son  of  Lucas  Powell  (by  his  wife, 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  Edwards),  who  is  said  to  have 
been  the  emio-rant  from  Engfland  who  settled  in  Amherst 
County,  Va.,  some  years  before  the  Revolution. 

143.  Mrs.  Sophie  C.^  Powell  had  issue  three  :  — 

536.  i.  Mary  B.^  Powell. 

537.  ii.  W.  Lucas  ^  Powell. 

538.  iii.  John  Thompson  Powell,  b.  June  17, 1841  ;  captain 

in  C.  S.  A.  ;  m.  (second),  December  15,  1869, 
Harriet  M.  Carrington  (541). 

536.  Mary  B.^  Powell,  born  September  22,  1837;  mar- 
ried, October  8,  1855,  Philip  E.  Evans,  of  Pettus  County, 
Mo.,  now  of  Deer  Lodge  City,  Mont.     Issue  two  :  — 

539.  i.  Nathaniel  PowelP  Evans,  b.  June   29,  1856;  m., 

June  24,  1882,  Sarah  A.  Powell  (540).     Issue : 
i.  Philip  E.^  b.  July  23,  1884 ;  ii.  Mary  P.',  b. 
January    22,    1886 ;    and    iii.    William    Lucas  ^ 
Evans,  b.  September  14,  1887. 
ii.  Mary  Ann  ^  Evans. 

537.  William  Lucas  ^  Powell,  born  June  26,  1839  ;  mar- 
ried, April  30,  1861,  Elizabeth  S.  Thompson  (born  January 
28,  1846),  daughter  of  Morton  Thompson,  of  Kentucky. 
Issue  seven  :  — 

540.  i.  Sarah  A.^  Powell,  b.  June  24, 1862 ;  m.  Nathaniel 

P.  Evans  (539). 
ii.  Charles  E.*^  Powell,  b.  April  5,  1866. 
iii.  John  F.*^  Powell,  b.  May  24,  1868. 
iv.  Nathaniel  C  PoweU,  b.  March  16,  1870. 


608  THE  CABELLS  AND  THEIR   KIN 

V.  Marcia  May  '^  Powell,  b.  October  30,  1871. 

vi.  Mary  W.*'  Powell,  b.  May  29,  1874. 

vii.  Robert  M.*^  Powell,  b.  December  13,  1881. 


144.  James  Lawrence*  Carrington,  born  October  18, 
1813 ;  married,  October  1,  1840,  Anne  Mildred  Strange 
(born  February  2,  1817),  daughter  of  Col.  Gideon  Strange, 
of  Fluvanna  County,  Va. ;  died  November  9,  1870.  Is- 
sue :  — 

i.  Benjamin''  Carrington,  b.  1841;  d.  1841. 
ii.  Gideon  Strange  ^  Carrington,  b.  1842 ;  d.  1844. 
541.  iii.  Harriet  Magruder^  Carrington,  b.  September  23, 
1844 ;  m.  John  Thompson  Powell  (538). 
iv.  Nicholas   Cabell^  Carrington,  b.  June  17,  1846; 
m.,  October  28,  1883,  Emma  Stone,  of  Wild 
Flower,  Fresno  County,  Cal.,  formerly  of  Mis- 
souri. 
V.  Mary  Bowie  ^  Carrington,  b.  August   11,   1848; 
m.  Richard  Omohundro,   of  Fluvanna  County, 
Va. 
vi.  Willie  Ann  ^  Carrington,  b.  June  20,  1850. 
vii.  Elizabeth  Hannah  ^  Carrington,  b.  1852  ;  d.  1875  ; 

unmarried, 
viii.  Mayo  Benjamin  ^  Carrington,  b.  January  7,  1855 ; 
m.  in  1886  in  California. 
ix.  James  Lawrence  ^  Carrington,  Jr.,  b.  September  5, 
1857. 


145.  Gilbert  Paul"*  Carrington,  born  August  19,  1815; 
completed  education  at  Washington  College,  1834-1835 ; 
lawyer  and  farmer ;  married  (first),  in  1843,  Sarah  Eliza- 
beth Jones,  daughter  of  Powhatan  Jones,  of  Buckingham 
County,  Va.,  and  his  wife,  Sidney  Frances  Rodes.  She 
was  born  November  1,  1826;  died  June  11,  1855.  Is- 
sue: — 
542.     i.  Mary  CabelP  Carrington. 

ii.  Walter  Scott  ^  Carrington,  b.  September  28,  1845; 


THE  FOUNDER'S  GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN  609 

d.  June  16, 1893,  at  Exchange  Hotel,  Richmond, 
Va. ;  never  married, 
iii.   Virginia  Rosalie^  Carrington,  m.  Mr.  Higgins,  of 

Mississippi, 
iv.  Gilbert  Marion  ^  Carrington,  b.  1851 ;  d.  1853. 
543.    V.  Eugene  Jones  ^  Carrington. 

145.  Gilbert  Paul  ^  Carrington,  after  the  death  of  his  first 
wife,  removed  to  De  Soto  County,  Miss. ;  taking  a  number 
of  slaves,  he  invested  largely  in  cotton  lands,  and  became 
a  successful  planter.  He  fought  through  the  whole  war,, 
1861-1865,  in  the  C.  S.  A.,  without  receiving  a  scratch. 
He  served  in  the  Mississippi  legislature  from  1873  to  his 
death  in  1881.  He  married  (second),  September  2, 1857, 
Tyrissa  Brown,  of  Mississippi,  who  died  in  1878.  Issue :  — 
vi.  Charles  Alexander  ^  Carrington,  b.  August  1,  1858  ; 

d.  unmarried, 
vii.  Florence  Agnes  ^  Carrington,  m.  Mr.  Miller,  of  Moul- 

ton,  Columbia  County,  Ark. 
viii.  Bennie  F.^  Carrington,  m.  Mr.  Wright,  of  Moulton,. 
Columbia  County,  Ark. 

542.  Mary  Cabell^  Carrington,  born  February  12,  1843; 
married,  in  December,  1862,  Thaddeus  Hooks,  of  Tennes- 
see.    She  died  December  23,  1884.     Issue  :  — 

i.  Ora^  Hooks,  b.  1865 ;  d.  1867. 
ii.  Lina  Gray«  Hooks,  b.  1862;  d.  1864. 
iii.  Bert  Elmore  ^  Hooks,  b.  August  17,  1868. 
iv.  Cerrogordo^  Hooks,  b.  December  25,  1870. 
v.  John  Howard  ^  Hooks,  b.  November  12,  1879. 

543.  Eugene  Jones  ^  Carrington,  born  May  21,  1853 ; 
member  of  the  city  council  of  Memphis,  Tenn.;  one  of  the 
proprietors  of  The  Exchange  and  Ballard  Hotels  of  Rich- 
mond, Va. 


146.  Elizabeth  Hannah^  Carrington,  born  March  20, 
1820  (living  1894) ;  married,  March  11,  1840,  Daniel  J. 
Hartsook  (born  July  27,  1814 ;  d.  March  24, 1879),  of  Flu- 
vanna County,  Va.     Issue :  — 


610  THE  CABELLS   AND   THEIR   KIN 

i.  Benjamin  Carrington  ^  Hartsook,  b.  October  7,  1841 ; 
m.,  in  1865,  Miss  Parrett  Patterson,  daughter  of 
Dr.  Patterson,  of  Buckingham  County,  Va. 

ii.  Louisa  Nicholas'  Hartsook,  b.  March  22,  1844. 

iii.  John  James  ^  Hartsook,  b.  1845 ;  d.  1846. 

iv.  Sallie  Blakey '  Hartsook,  b.  August  28,  1847  ;  m., 
April  19,  1882,  William  Parrott,  of  Fluvanna 
County,  Va. 

V.  Cornelia  Clarke  ^  Hartsook,  b.  July  7,  1851 ;  d.  Octo- 
ber 27,  1881 ;  m.,  June  18,  1879,  J.  W.  Brown,  of 
Howardsville,  Va. 

vi.  Joseph  Cabell '  Hartsook,  b.  1853  ;  d.  1855. 
vii  Angus  Blakey  ^  Hartsook,  b.  October  30, 1856 ;  M.  D. ; 

living  in  Texas, 
viii.  Robert  Daniel'  Hartsook,  b.  April  27,  1860. 

ix.  Eugene'  Hartsook,  m.,  July  21,  1886,  Carrie  Ellis, 
daughter  of  L.  P.  Ellis,  of  Texas. 

The  present  is  founded  on  the  past,  and  the  past  is  our 
only  guide  to  the  future.  If  we  wish  to  see  before  us,  we 
must  turn  and  look  into  the  mirror  behind  us.  In  this  vol- 
ume I  have  given  an  outline  of  the  beginning  of  a  new 
family  and  of  a  new  country,  with  some  idea  as  to  the  spread 
of  both  for  over  a  hundred  years.  And  each  one  of  us 
can  find  in  the  lives  of  our  ancestors  something  which  will 
remind  us 

"  We  can  make  our  lives  sublime  ; 
And,  departing,  leave  behind  us 
Footprints  on  the  sands  of  time. 

"  Let  us,  then,  be  up  and  doing, 
With  a  heart  for  any  fate  ; 
Still  achieving,  still  pursuing, 
Learn  to  labor  and  to  wait." 


INDEX. 


Abbott,  Elizabeth,  274. 

Abell,  Peter  T.,  and  famUy,  466,  467. 

Abyssinia,  437. 

Ackiss,  John,  148. 

Acock,  Bertie,  Robert  E.,  297. 

Adams,  John  Q.,  488 ;  Joseph  T.,  and  fam- 
ily, 4.54 ;  Judith,  290 ;  Mr.,  98 ;  Robert, 
290;3G7;Tabitha,  521. 

Alabama,  287, 299, 307, 313, 334,  353,  374, 
382,  423,  430,  432,  455-460,  462,  475, 
482,  488,  513,  .532,  578,  600,  601,  604. 

Albemarle,  Earl  of,  48. 

Albemarle  Co.,  47-60,  68,  69,  72,  74-79, 
81,  83,  91,  95,  99,  106,  128,  130,  132, 
133,  140,  145,  148,  149,  153,  158,  159, 
173,  193,  194,  207,  215,  216,  218,  219, 
221,  223,  232,  2.34,  236,  269,  272,  275, 
276,  284,  286,  290,  307,  321,  322,  340, 
348,  350,  351,  359,  364,  380,  387,  401, 
406-415,  424,  434,  439-443,  450,  452, 
464,  486,  489,  504,  545,  564,  598,  599 ; 
Furnace  Company,  62,  63, 133,  286,413. 

Alcock,  Richard,  92. 

Aldrieks,  Peter,  338. 

"  Aldringham,"  244,  561,  604. 

Alexander,  Addison,  595  ;  Anne  C,  331, 
334;  Archibald  (emigrant),  368,  393, 
594  ;  210,  267,  269,  326,  593,  594  ; 
594  ;  Catherine  W.,  305  :  '*  Earl  of  Stir- 
ling," 334 ;  EUzabeth  S.  W.,  Frances, 
Frederick  B.,  596;  George  C,  594; 
Henry  C,  2,  9,  594,  595  ;  Henry  M., 
596;  James  W.,  210,  592;  594-596; 
596 ;  596 ;  Janetta,  594 ;  John  (emi- 
grant), 334  ;  334 ;.  594  ;  John  W.,  596  ; 
Juliet  D.,  374  ;  Robert  (emigrant),  368, 
593 ;  368 ;  334;  305 ;  Sallie,  368  ;  Sallie 
C,  374;  Susan  D.,  378,  5.38;  Susan  P., 
333, 334 ;  WilUam,  331, 334 ;  (emigrant), 
593  ;  593  ;  594-596 ;  William  C,  374 ; 
374. 

Alexandria,  269,  271,  287,  353,  394,  419, 
428-430,  433,  436,  491,  528. 

Alleghany  Mountains,  99,  519. 

Allen,  Abell,  168;  Archer,  165,  400; 
Elizabeth,  Henry  W.,  467  ;  Jesse,  149 ; 
John,  22  ;  John  J.,  253,  264;  Lucy  W., 
358;  Martha,  400;  Murett  B.,  358; 
Thomas,  467  ;  WiUiam,  38,  49. 

Allin,  Philip  T.,  and  family,  478,  479; 
Susan,  Thomas,  WiUiam,  465. 

Alston,  Charity,  588  ;  Jane  C,  586,  588 ; 
James,  John,  William,  588. 


Alstott,  Mary,  550. 

"AltaVista,"  434,439. 

Alves,  Lucy,  483. 

Alvis,  Eliza  S.,  450. 

Amelia  Co.,  163,  164,  196,  335,  355,  356, 
372,  462,  605. 

Amherst,  General  Jeffery,  60. 

Amherst  Academy,  432  ;  County,  40,  43, 
51, 59-72, 76, 79-122, 132-139, 142, 145- 
156,  159,  172,  174,  177-187,  190-202, 
213,  214,  216,  219,  220,  227-229,  252, 
260,  261,  275,  282-284,  287,  288,  291- 
293,  295,  302,  304,  317,  340,  343,  365, 
377,  379-381,  384,  386-388,  394,  397, 
448,  449,  514,  532,  533,  548,  597,  607  ; 
Parish,  60,  80,  104,  105,  107,  108,  116, 
134,  1.37,  152,  199,  201,  202,  214. 

"  Ampt  Hill,"  236,  446,  520,  524-526. 

Amsterdam,  271,  278,  512. 

Anderson,  Andrew,  52  ;  Ann,  301 ;  Barte- 
lott,  47  ;  Catherine,  293  ;  Eliza  L.,  507 
Francis    T.,    and     family,    329,    330 
Franklin,  and  family,  555  ;  James,  436 
John,  507  ;  Joseph  R.,  336,  347  ;  Mary, 
547 ;  Mary  B.,  336  ;  Matthew,  47 :  Mattie 
W.,  539 ;  Meta,  354 ;  R.  H..  281  ;  Robert 
(emigrant),  336  ;  Robert  P.,  and  family, 
281;   Richard  W.,   507;   T.  L.,   518; 
Thomas,  111 ;  William,  .336. 

Andrews,  Henry  P.,  488  ;  Reddin,  462. 

Angus,  Earl  of,  216. 

Anne  Arundel  Co.  (Md.),  402,  503. 

Anthony,  Abner  J.  B.,  288  ;  Caroline,  320, 
391;  Christopher,  71,  270,  321,  ,385; 
320-322,  391,  .541  ;  James  B..  288 ; 
John,  49,  69  ;  Joseph,  69,  321  ;  Mar- 
garet, 320,  540;  Mary  A.,  .320-322; 
Mary  J.,  321,  322 ;  Samuel,  320  ;  Sarah, 
320 ;  385. 

Antrim  Parish,  329. 

Appomattox  Co.,  229,  .301,  447,  448,  4.50 ; 
Court  House  (battle),  358,  359,  362, 
529,  586 ;  River,  35,  37,  51. 

Archer,  Robert,  Sallie,  336. 

Arctic  Ocean,  .311. 

Argall,  Samuel,  39,  412,  430. 

Argyle,  John,  Duke  of,  191. 

"Argyle,"396. 

Arizona,  335,  484. 

Arkansas,  287,  294,  298,  441,  473-475, 
495,  528,  534,  536.  537,  577,  609. 

Armistead,  Judith,  293  ;  William,  108. 

Armstrong,  Charles,  395. 


612 


INDEX 


Arnold,  Hendrick,  112. 

Arnold's  invasion,  109,  113,  192. 

Arran,  Earl  of,  589. 

"  Arrington,"  61. 

Ashe,  John,  Mary,  Samuel,  456. 

Ashland  (Ky.),  493. 

Ashley,  William  H.,  581. 

Ashlin  (Ashley  ?),  Joseph,  37. 

Ashton,  Ellen  V.,  476. 

Asia,  521. 

Astor,  Emily,  424. 

Atkinson,  Henry,  436;  Robert  T.,  Sam- 
uel E.,  315. 

Atkinson's  Ferry,  37. 

Attorneys,  37,  46,  47.  49,  61,  etc. 

Auchincloss  family,  591,  592. 

Aufr^re,  Anthony,  Louise  A.  M.,  415,  416. 

Augusta  Academy,  234,  256 ;  County,  78, 
81.  99,  100,  133,  135, 148,  236,  240,241, 
256,  257,  296,  350,  364,  413,  503,  589, 
594,598,599;  Parish,  257. 

Austin,  Ann,  368  ;  Mr.,  276 ;  Maggie,  553. 

Austin  (Augustin),  Priory  (E.),  4. 

Australia,  28,  426,  427,  437. 

Austria,  422. 

Avery,  Elizabeth  S.,  314. 

Aylett,  John,  61  ;  Martha  W.,  369  ;  Pattie 
W.,  382;  PhUip,  382;  WilUam  R., 
369. 

Ayres,  Bena,  386 ;  Davis  and  family,  316 ; 
E.  W.,  386. 

Babcock,  Col.,  498. 

Baber,  Ambrose,  111. 

Bachelor,  Edith,  28. 

Back  River,  337. 

Backhouse,  John,  89,  91,  146. 

Bacon,  John  L.,  432. 

Bacon's  Rebellion,  403. 

Bagby,  P.  F.,  451. 

Bailey,  Edmimd,  7  ;  Henry,  William,  88 ; 
William  D.,  16,  17. 

Bainbridge,  William,  515. 

Baird,  Mary  H.,  476. 

Baker,  Alexander  M.,  320  ;  Jerman,  135 ; 
John,  278  ;  Lura  M.,  429;  Marion  V., 
320 ;  Richard,  13 ;  220. 

Balcony  Falls,  599. 

Baldwin,  Cornelius,  393 ;  Margaret,  391, 
393. 

Baldwin's  (Miss)  School,  357. 

Ball,  Lewis,  85. 

Ballenger's  Creek,  207. 

Ballentine,  EUen  C,  468. 

Ballon  (Ballow),  Thomas,  48,  50. 

Baltimore  (Md.),  262,  277,  303,  325,  337, 
338,  345,  346,  386,  398,  399,  474,  480, 
491,492,  494,497,  498,  500,  503,  507, 
509,  524,  537,  545,  568,  570,  574,  596, 
603;  Almshouse,  585,  596;  Hospital, 
572 ;  Medical  College,  369,  472. 

"  Banister  Lodge,"  327-330. 

Banks,  Diana,  326. 

Banning,  Mary  T.,  277. 

Barbadoes,  157,  168-170,  173,  588. 


Barbee,  David  B.,  David  H.,  484 ;  Miss, 
529. 

Barclay,  George,  87,  415 ;  Henry,  416 
John  (emigrant),  416 ;  Lucv  E.,  353 
Matilda  A.,  415-417;  Robert,  353 
Thomas,  415,  416. 

Barker,  Margaret  M.,  425. 

Barksdale,  E.,  356;  Mattie,  Randolph, 
371. 

Barnes  Medical  College,  312. 

Barnett,  James,  177,  178,  181. 

Barracks  in  Albemarle,  219,  276. 

Barraud,  Anne  B.,  Philip,  603. 

Barret,  Charles,  47. 

Barringer,  Mr.,  419. 

Barrington,  Francis,  231,  432 ;  Governor, 
588 ;  Joan,  231. 

Barrow,  W.  W.,  and  family,  276. 

Barton  family,  349,  350. 

Basket,  N.  M.,  5.53. 

Basset,  Emma,  Louis,  298,  299. 

Bates,  Captain,  143;  Barton,  499;  Ed- 
ward, 7U,  499  ;  Isaac,  38,  39,  49,  158 ; 
John,  Onward,  Thomas  F.,  499. 

Battersby,  William,  47,  49,  207. 

Baxter,  George,  358;  George  A.,  364; 
Sydney  S.,  586. 

Baylor  family,  337. 

Baylor  University  (Tex.),  299,  475. 

Baytop  family,  288. 

Beale  family,  535. 

Beard  famUy,  552,  553. 

Beasley,  Cordelia  S.,  301. 

Beaufoy,Mr.,  24. 

Beauregard,  General,  473. 

Beckley,  John,  115. 

Bedford,  Stephen,  38. 

Bedford  City,  280,  545,  546,  602,  603 ; 
County,  58,  70, 81,  83,  99,  102,  135,  149, 
159,  196,  197,  205,  244,  246,  270,  280, 
285-287,  290,  291,  295,  304,  314,  352, 
366-369,  384,  533,  545-547,  549. 

Bedfordshire,  588. 

Beethoven  Conservatoiy,  299. 

Beldon,  Matilda,  551. 

Bell,  Henry  H.,  435  ;  James,  151 ;  Mary 
C,  507  ;  Thomas,  60 ;  WilUam  H.,  436 ; 
William  M.,  507. 

Bellamy,  William,  47. 

"Bellevue,"  346;  401. 

Belmont,  Sara  W.,  417. 

"  Belmont,"  360,  426,  430, 431. 

Benjamin,  Mr.,  579. 

Bennett,  Edward,  46,  47  ;  OUver  E.,  280; 
W.  J.  E.,  7,  9. 

Bent  Creek,  176,  221,  222,  446 ;  Moun- 
tain, 296. 

Bentley  family,  319 ;  Mary  K.,  376. 

"  Benvenue,"  428. 

Berkeley,  Joseph,  William,  448,  449. 

"Berkeley,"  237,  238;  County  (W.  Va.), 
289. 

Bermuda  Hundred,  239,  276. 

Bermuda  Islands,  440. 

Bernard,  Miss,  468  ;  William,  50. 


INDEX 


613 


Berry,  Lieut.,  311 ;  Henry,  284. 

Berryville,  394. 

Best  family,  .551. 

Betts,  Ann,  Roger,  31. 

Beverley,  Elizabeth,  561 ;  family,  485 ; 
Harry,  403  ;  Mary,  402, 403  ;  Peter,  169, 
561 ;  Robert  (emigrant),  403,  561 ;  403. 

Beverleytown,  52,  53,  140. 

Bibb,  John,  112;  Senator,  173. 

Bickers  family.  606. 

Bickley,  Joseph,  47. 

"  Big  island,"  291. 

Biggs,  John,  112. 

Bingley,  Joseph,  37. 

Bininger,  Frances  A.,  418. 

Birch,  Mary  C,  493. 

Bird  (see  Byrd),  Mary,  504. 

Bishop,  Mr.,  513. 

"  Black  Rock,"  487,  489. 

Blackburn,  Margaret,  503. 

Blacker,  Beaver  H.,  2. 

Blacksburg  College,  477. 

Blackwater  Creek,  51,  69,  241,  365. 

Blain,  Alexander,  Fanny,  450. 

Blaine  family,  449,  450. 

Blair,  Aehibald  (emigrant),  229  ;  Eliza- 
beth, 229 ;  Elizabeth  D.,  601 ;  Francis 
P.,  408 ;  James  (emigrant),  229,  435 ; 
John,  46,  85;  79,  143;  435;  John  D., 
601 ;  Miss,  490  ;  Mary,  519  ;  Samuel, 
520. 

Bland,  Anna,  225,  Elizabeth,  601 ;  Fran- 
ces, 22.5,  266;  Richard,  161;  Theodo- 
rick,  377. 

Blandford,  225. 

Bledsoe,  Hannah,  William,  530. 

Bloom  family,  467. 

Blount,  Martha  A.,  422. 

Blue  Ridge  Mountains,  37,  39,  42,  59,  60, 
66,  67,  79,  155,  169,  207,  246,  389. 

"  Blue  Rock,"  376,  377,  395. 

Bocock,  Amanda  M.,  John  T.,  Thomas  S., 
447. 

Boggs,  Jane  A.,  338. 

Bohannon,  Captain,  111  ;  family,  316. 

Boles,  Margaret  C,  Oscar  E.,  429. 

Boiling,  Anne  E.,  228,  230;  Archibald, 
228,  230,  446 ;  Elizabeth,  605  ;  Jane, 
230,  446  ;  John,  229,  230,  605  ;  37,  51- 
53,  229, 230,  246, 605 ;  Julia  C,  604, 605 ; 
Linnaeus,  368  ;  Mary,  128 ;  Pocahontas 
R.,  228  ;  Powhatan,  464  ;  Robert  (emi- 
grant), 230;  228-230,  368  ;  Sarah,  446  ; 
"  Senacous,"  464 ;  Susan,  368;  Thomas, 
604 ;  605 ;  Widow,  228 ;  William,  605. 

Boiling  Hall,  604. 

Bollingbrooke  House,  228. 

Boiling's  Creek,  229. 

Bolton's  Station,  176,  221. 

"  Bon  Aire,"  258,  259,  592. 

Bondurant,  Col.,  515. 

Books,  90,  91,  etc. 

Boone,  Daniel,  42,  295,  454, 462 ;  Jemima, 
295. 

Boone  County  (Ky.),  520 ;   (Mo.),  581. 


Boonesborongh,  295,  296,  454. 

Booneville  (battle),  524,  525. 

Borland  family,  418. 

Borst,  Cornelia,  537. 

Boston  (Mass.),  31,  93,  418-421,  424,  425, 
454,  474,  543. 

"  Boston  Hill,"  158,  249,  272. 

Bostonians,  98,  102, 174. 

Boston  Port  BiU,  93,  94. 

Bosworth,  Amanda  E.,  Peleg,  448. 

Botetourt,  Lord,  85  ;  County,  98,  135,  205, 
234,  235,  296,  351,  375,  394. 

Bottom  Bridge,  192,  194. 

Boughan,  Nelly  H.,  535. 

Bouldin,  Joanna,  537  ;  Martha  B.,  535 ; 
Thomas,  537;  Thomas  T.,  535,  537; 
Wood,  393,  560 ;  537. 

Bowles,  Mr.,  554. 

Bowman,  Rufus,  482. 

Bowman's  warehouse,  142. 

Bowyer,  Alice,  Anne,  247 ;  Henry  M., 
545  ;  John,  135  ;  Lilian.  545  ;  Luke,  61 ; 
Thomas  M.,  545 ;  WilUam,  247. 

Boyd,  Alice,  Henry,  395. 

Boyd's  Ferry,  112. 

Boyden,  Rev.  Peter,  335. 

Boyle,  Charles,  Robert,  10. 

Braddock's  defeat,  77,  183,  236,  237,  413. 

Bradley,  Mr.,  24,  Nannie,  Thomas,  476. 

Brady,  Louisa  S.,  Samuel,  304. 

Branch,  Annie  H.,  James  R.,  573  ;  Mary, 
388. 

"  Brandon,"  403. 

Braxton,  Carter,  52,  .53,  80,  86,  125,  134, 
14;^,  340,  540 ;  George,  53,  246 ;  Susan 
S.,  540. 

Brazil,  429. 

Breadalbane,  300 ;  506. 

Breakhill,  John,  89, 146. 

Breckinridge,  Agatha  M.,  498;  Alexan- 
der (emigrant),  235,  236 ;  Almy  H., 
500 ;  B.  M.,  506 ;  Ben  J..  496 ;  Cabell, 
512  ;  512,  514 ;  Campbell,  508 ;  Caro- 
line L.,  490-492 ;  Cary,  394  ;  Charles 
C,  514;  Charles  H.,  ,501;  510;  Clifton 
R.,  495,  496 ;  Cornelia  L.,  514 ;  David 
C,  500 ;  Desha,  508  ;  Elizabeth,  403 ; 
Elizabeth  L.,  500;  Elizabeth  M.,  498; 
EUa  D.,  508 ;  EUen,  513 ;  Ethelbert  L. 
D.,  510;  Frances,  495;  513;  Frances 
A.,  490,  491;  Frances  P.,  501,  504; 
515;  Frances  P.,  512;  Henry  S.,  510; 
Hunt,  513;  Issa  D.,  508;  James  C, 
496 ;  James  M.,  236 ;  John,  154,  200, 
232-236,  268,  497 ;  236,  497-500,  519 ; 
499 ;  501 ;  John  B.,  512 ;  John  C,  333, 
490,  493-497 ;  495  ;  496  ;  John  J.,  498 ; 
John  P.,  511 ;  John  R.,  502;  John  W. 
O.,  495  ;  Joseph  C,  236,  489-497,  512  ; 
494-496;  510;  501,  509,  510;  Kate. 
513 ;  Laura,  495 ;  Lee  C,  508  ;  Letitia 
P.,  236,  486-489 ;  490;  512;  Lewis  G., 
512;  Louisiana  H.,  501;  Louise  D., 
510  ;  Lucian  C,  510 ;  Lucy,  513  ;  Lucy 
H.,  510;  Mabel  W.,  510;   Marcus  P., 


614 


INDEX 


512,  513 ;  Margaret  E.,  498  ;  Margaret 
M.,  499;  Margaret  S.,  511:  Marie  L., 
501,  50(5;  Mary  A.,  236,  497;  490; 
Mary  C,  489;  490,  492;  497;  498; 
49U;  501,  502;  508;  Mary  D.,  510; 
495 ;  Mary  H.,  236  ;  512,  514 ;  Mary  S., 
515  ;  Nathaniel  H.,  502 ;  Eichard,  513  ; 
Robert,  235;  513;  Robert  H.,  236; 
Robert  J.,  236,  500-510;  496;  501, 
505  ;  506 ;  508  ;  510 ;  512,  513  ;  514  ; 
Samuel  M.,  498-500,  518,  527;  500; 
Sarah  C,  501,505;  Sarah  P.,  514;  Scott 
D.,  510  ;  Sophonisba  A.,  508  ;  Sopho- 
nisba  P.,  501,  508;  Stanhope  P.,  512, 
514;  Stephen  L.,  513;  Susanna  L., 
497  ;  Theodosia  P.,  512 ;  513  ;  Thomas 
S.,  514 ;  Virginia  C,  499  ;  Virginia  H., 
502;  William  A.,  514;  W.  C  P.,  501, 
507,  508  ;  William  L.,  233,  236,  511- 
515;  512-514. 

Breckinridge  Co.  (Ky.),  235. 

"  Bremo,"  378,  604. 

Brenham,  Nellie,  530. 

Brent,  Elizabeth  S.,  606  ;  Hugh,  515. 

Bridge  Water  (battle),  487- 

'•  Bridgewater,"  470,  471,  477. 

Bridle  Creek,  158. 

Briery  Church,  209,  210,  354,  -355. 

Briggs,  Rev.  Dr.,  499. 

Brine  family,  329. 

Briscoe,  Mary,  393,  394. 

Brittany,  129. 

Broadnax,   Frances,    Margaret,   Thomas, 
459. 

Brockenbrough,  Judge,  606. 

Brooke,  Robert,  170. 

Brookes,  Sarah  L.,  505. 

Brooks,  Susan  S.,  330. 

Brooksville,  546. 

Brown,  Alexander  (emigrant),  340,  351, 
360,  366,  425-433,  435 ;  vii,  391,  427- 
429;  525;  Andrew,  427;  Ann,  524; 
525  ;  Archibald  D.,  482  ;  B.  Gratz,  234 ; 
Calloway,  280;  Carter  H.,  524;  525; 
Daniel,  388 ;  Dudley,  482  ;  Edmonia  P., 
348;  EUzabeth,  426,  427,  431-43:3; 
Elizabeth  C,  482;  Elizabeth  D.,  428; 
Elizabeth  H.,435;  Elizabeth  W.,  508 ; 
Elvira  C,  427  ;  Evelyn  C,  482  ;  Frances 
H.,  348 ;  George  M.,  427  ;  524 ;  George 
W.,  525;  H.  G.,  449;  J.  W.,  610; 
James,  221,  222  ;  347, 348 ;  ;348  ;  James 
C,  348  ;  James  M.  {e7nigrant),  121, 324 ; 
Jane  S.,  524;  John,  41  ;  110;  (emigrant), 
347;  200,  234;  508;  John  D.,  429; 
John  F.  D.,  348 ;  John  M.,  399,  501, 
.545;  John  Y.,  482;  Joseph  C,  428; 
Joshua,  524 ;  Lawrence,  4.35  ;  Letitia 
P.,  524;  Lucy  C,  525  ;  Lucy  R.,  428, 
429;  LudweU  H.,  347  ;  Margaret,  429 
427,  429-431 ;  348  ;  Margaret  B.,  428 
Margaret  C,  348;  Margaret  L.,  429 
Margaret  M.,  348 ;  Mary,  462  ;  Mary 
C.  B.,  428,  429 ;  Mary  E.,  461 ;  Mary 
R.,  348  ;  Mayo  C,  428  ;  Mrs.,  478  ;  Perry 


B.,  525  ;  Preston  W.,  508 ;  Robert  H., 
524 ;  525 ;   Robert  L.,   367,   391,   427- 
430 ;  428,  429 ;  349 ;  Samuel  M.,  524 
Sarah  C,  427  ;  Susan  D.,  482  ;  Theodo- 
sia, 524  ;  Thomas,  121 ;  Thomas  S..  .348 
Tyrissa,  609 ;  Vance,  482  ;  Virginia  H. 

524  ;  Virginia  S.,  482  ;  William  B.,  524 

525  ;  William  C,  428,  429  ;  348  ;  Wing- 
field,  349 ;  W.  L.,  349  ;  W.  S.  K.,  348. 

Brown's  Gap,  87. 
Browne,  William,  590. 
Bruce,  Albert  C,  335,  3-36 ;  Anne  S..  .336, 
338  ;  Burf oot,  336  ;  Charies.  326 ;  327, 

335  ;  336  ;  Charles  C,  336  ;  Charies  M., 
335 ;  Edward,  326  ;  Effie,  506 ;  Ella  B., 
3.36;  Ellen  C,  211,  326,  331 ;  335,  337; 
Elizabeth  B.,  600  ;  Eliza  D.,  329 :  Eliza 
W.,  329 ;  Elvira  C,  208,  211,  324-339, 
389 ;  (emigrant),  326 ;  Emma  G.,  330  ; 
Helm,  600  ;  Howard,  336  :  James,  324- 
326,  329;  338;  James  C,  326,  329; 
330  ;  James  D.,  335 ;  James  R.,  335  ; 
James  W.,600  ;  Jane  C,  330 ;  John  J., 
506  ;  Joseph  R.  A.,  .336 ;  Kathleen  E., 
336;  Louise  R.,  600;  Marion,  335; 
Marion  R.,  330  ;  Mary  L.,  330 ;  Patrick 
H.,  330;    Philip  A.,    335;    Reginald, 

336  ;  Rosa,  329 ;  Sara  S.,  336 ;   Sarah, 

211,  326, 332 ;  .334  ;  Sarah  A.,  336  ;  Sed- 
don,  336;  Thomas,  .329;  3.30;  Thomas 
S.,  335, 336  ;  William  C,  327 ;  329 ;  835, 
337,  338  ;  William  F.,  338. 

Brunswick  County  (Va.),  32,  78,  282,  295, 

328. 
Bryan,  Sarah,  441. 
Bryant,  Jesse,  112;  William,  394. 
"  Bryn  Mawr  College,"  335. 
Buchan,    Helen,    191;    Robert,  191,  209, 

212,  216. 

Buchanan,  Colonel,  412  ;  James,  62,  89, 
1.33,184;  President,  518,  536;  Robert, 
5.54. 

Buchanan  (Va.),  .394. 

Buckfastleigh  (E.),  1,  10-16,  18,  19,  23. 

"  Buckhannon,"  317,  4.33. 

Buckingham  Co.,  59,  60,  83,  99,  102,  127, 
130,  132,  133,  139-145,  148,  149,  15.3, 
158,  159,  163,  164,  173,  228,  229,  243, 
247,  2.53,  269,  274,  277,  279,  301-.304, 
317,  346,  368,  382,  393,  447,  448,  464, 
467,  515,  540-542,  .545,  608,  610. 

Buckinghamshire  (E.),  5,  247. 

Buckner,  Elizabeth,  355  ;  Governor,  529 ; 
Mordecai,  179. 

Buell,  Abigail.  487. 

Buena  Vista  (battle),  3.57,  493,  524. 

Buffalo  (N.  Y.),  487,  489 ;  Ridge  (Va.), 
39,  66,  365 ;  River,  134 ;  station,  243  ; 
trail,  39,  66. 

Buford,  Col..  40  ;  familv,  549. 

"  Bugley  "  (E.),  19,  20, 23,  24,  45. 

Bulkley,  Edward,  Mary,  419;  Mr.,  Rob- 
ert, 526. 

Bullock  family,  491-492  ;  Hannah,  Mary, 
290. 


INDEX 


615 


Bui-foot,  Eloise  F.,  336. 

Burford,  Daniel,  61,  598. 

Burgess,  Ruth,  502. 

Burgesses.     See  General  Assembly. 

Burgoyne's  surrender,  106,  182,  183. 

Burke,  Bernard,  32  ;  Edmund,  166. 

Burks,  Elizabeth,  30,  43 ;  Mary,  59,  454 ; 
Mary  Davis,  59  ;  Richard,  74 ;  Samuel, 
43,  59 ;  62. 

Burnet,  William,  590. 

Burnley,  Harden,  .52. 

Burr,  Aaron,  252,  4.55,  512  ;  J.  D.,  483. 

Burton,  Martha,  369  ;  Mr.,  221 ;  Norvell, 
37. 

BurweU  f amUy,  545-547  ;  Elizabeth,  238 ; 
Lewis,  238  ;  Sarah,  431. 

"  Bushy  Forest,"  205,  208. 

Butler,  Gen.  B.  F.,  477. 

Byrd,  Jane,  339,  411 ;  Ursula,  403  ;  Wil- 
liam, 10,  169,  170,  189,  411,  .544 ;  (emi- 
grant), 411 ;  380 ;  his  regiment,  151, 
295. 

Byrd's  warehouse,  89, 133. 

Cabell,  etc.,  4;    Abraham  J.,  227,  258; 
Ada,  26;  Adelaide  W.  H.,  27;  Agnes 
B.,  573 ;  583, 584  ;  (S.  B.),  250,  252, 255- 
258;  Alfred,  216;    590;  Algernon  S., 
470,   475 ;  Alice,   243,  533-535 ;   551  ; 
(W.),  243,  244  ;  244  ;  532  ;   533  ;  536- 
538;  541,  542;  Allie  S.,  480;    Althea 
S.,  480,  484 ;   Ann,  141,  236-240,  515- 
531 ;   (Carrington),  192,  200,  204,  208. 
.366;    (C),   208,   354-364;    391;    557 
(E.),  472;   Anna,  26,    30;    (M.),  543 
Anne  B.,  536  ;  (C),  384,  385 ;  (E.),  484 
(E.  B.),  228,  230-232  ;   (W.),  319,  323 
Annie,  323;  (B.),  392;  (D.),476;  (E.) 
29 ;  Anthony,  19 ;  Archibald,  231 ;  (B.) 
231 ;  479 ;  Arthur  G.,  573 ;  Ashley,  583 
584;    Aylett   J.,   539;  Benjamin,  472 

476  ;    (B.),  2,  19,  20  ;  (E.),  470  ;  474 
(W.  S.),  136,  188,  214,  228,  231,  469- 

477  ;  476 ;  Calvin  S.,  479 ;  CamUla  A., 
260;  Caroline  A.,  484;  391,429;  Car- 
rington, 584  ;  Cary  C,  604  ;  Catherine 
A.,  247;  258;  (D.),  .536;  (H.),  590, 
591 ;  Charles,  318  ;  (C),  319  ;  (E.),  .393  ; 
(J.),  465;  469;  (R.),  557  ;  Christopher, 
19 ;  Clara  L.,  539  ;  (P.)  (Jessie),  539, .540 ; 
(W.),  540  ;  Clarence,  590  ;  Clementina, 
208,  369-376 ;  Clifford,  244,  320,  540- 
542  ;  .541 ;  Coleman  J.,  539  ;  Cornelia, 
318  ;  (M.),  391,  394 ;  Courtenay  P.,  306; 
David  S.  G.,  381,  382 ;  De  Rosa  C,  476 ; 
DoUie  Dodd,  551 ;  Edith,  29  ;  Edmund 
G.,  533;  (W.),  243;  244,  540;  540; 
Edward,  32 ;  (A.),  208,  379-384  ;  314  ; 
(B.),  231,  462-469  ;  466 ;  469  ;  (C),  573  ; 
vii,  251,  258,  356,  574-584 ;  (M.),  .389, 
391;  (P.),  381;  Edwin,  249;  Eliza  C, 
391 ;  544  ;  (F.  M.),  259 ;  (L.),  391 ;  Eliz- 
abeth, 16-19  ;  21 ;  24 ;  26,  27 ;  (Burks), 
36,  40,  42,  43,  45,  46,  58,  59,  63,  72  -74, 
269;  130,226,  227,  250-252,  257;  141, 


227,240;  140,  141,  240,  241,  469;  171, 
260-263,597-601;  216,399;  249,554; 
479 ;  557 ;  (C),  260, 592-596  ;  .536 ;  573, 
574 ;  583,  584 ;  (H. ),  258,  574  ;  (L.),  318, 
319;  (N.),  392,  604;  605;  (N.  H.),  272; 
(R.),  232,  480-483 ;  485 ;  (S.),  27;  Ellen, 
26,  28 ;  480 ;  (C),  318 ;  319 ;  Elvira,  208, 
261,  324-339,  389  ;  216;  554;  (A.),  249, 
555,  556;  (B.),  391,  395,  396;  (D.), 
393 ;  Emeline  S.,  190,  323 ;  Emily  L., 
27;  (M.),  465,  466;  469;  Emma  C, 
258,  .567-571 ;  (E.),  314,  316  ;  (F.),  30  ; 
Eunice,  554;  Evelyn  C.  B.,  .541,  542;  , 
Evermere,  5  ;  Fanny  A.,  29  ;  Florence, 
585;  Florida,  583;  Frances  G.,  546, 
604;  (H.),  604;  (W.),  247,  547,  548; 
Francis  B.,  605 ;  Frank  M.,  480 ;  Fred- 
erick, 145,  243,  244,  539-544 ;  249,  .556, 
557;  472;  5.57;  (A.),  247;  (E.),  543, 
544;  (I.),  539;  (M.),  244,  539,  540; 
540;  George,  1.5,  16,  20;  31;  59,72; 
145,  241-243,  258,  531-539;  127,  171, 
258-261,  591-597  ;  (B.),  485 ;  (C),  232 ; 
470,  476  ;  472  ;  (H.),  29  ;  (K.),  243, 532, 
533;  (M.),  260;  (P.),  543  ;  (W.),  190, 
320-322,  366,  439 ;  232,  485,  486 ;  249 ; 
319;  323;  480;  485,  486;  Gilbert  de, 
5 ;  Guy,  388  ;  Hannah,  147,  156,  157, 
171;  154,  171;  Harriet  F.,  469;  (M.), 
466 ;  Hattie  F.,  468 ;  Hector,  130,  145, 
187 ;  216,  340  ;  Henningham,  154,  171 ; 
Henricus,  3  ;  Henrietta  V.,  540  ;  Henry 
Ann,  244-247  ;  247,  548,  549 ;  Henry, 
32  ;  533  ;  (C),  258,  577,  586-591 ;  590, 
591;  (J.),  387;  (L.),  318;  319;  373; 
Hortense  W.,  540 ;  Hugh,  5 ;  Hugo,  3  ; 
Ha  W.,  469  ;  Inah  G.,  484  ;  Irving  G., 
533  ;  James,  551 ;  (A.),  2,  11,  589,  590  ; 
540;  (B.),  573;  (C),  .572;  (L.),  260, 
266,  591,  592,  596,  597  ;  (M.),  466  ;  (P.), 
533  ;  Jane  B.,465,  467  ;  (M.),  ,381,  383; 
(R.),  232,  478,  479;  484;  Janie  O., 
468 ;  Jeffrey,  5 ;  Jennetta,  249,  552, 553 ; 
Joanna,  21;  (C),  544;  (T.),  536,  537; 
John,  6  ;  6,  7, 11 ;  11 ;  15,  18  ;  31 ;  19, 
20  ;  61,  72,  101,  102,  1.32,  141-145, 148, 
1.59,  216,  24,3,  258,  .381 ;  children,  241- 
249;  branch,  531-5.57;  249;  323; 
551;  (B.),  20;  232,479-480;  243,535- 
539  ;  480  ;  536  ;  543,  544  ;  5.50,  551 ; 
(E.),  485;  (E.  S.),  247  ;  (F.),  557  ;  (G.), 
255,  2.58,  351,  374,  584,  585 ;  (H.),  247  ; 
(J.),  145,  244-247,  544-549  ;  475  ;  536; 
(J.  C),  ,583 ;  (L.),  465  ;  573  ;  (N.),  260, 
561,  562;  (P.),  479;  (R.),  470,  472; 
472  ;  Joseph,  18,  21,  23-24 ;  24 ;  61,  62, 
72,  74,  76,  83,  94,  95,  100,  104,  106,  107, 
130-141,  143,  1.50,  152,  1.54,  212,  228, 
234,  545;  children,  227-241;  branch, 
446-531 ;  1.36,  139,  141,  1.54,  227-232, 
253,  451-486;  (B.),  484;  (C),  63,  64, 
122,  171,  218,  263-267,  469,  470,  585 ; 
391,  393  ;  (H.),  232  ;  605  ;  (J.),  485 ; 
(M.),  231,  462,  463;  (R.),  470,  477; 
Josephine,  540  ;  Judith  S.,  213, 214, 216 ; 


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INDEX 


247,  544-546  ;  Julian  M.,  vii,  590  ;  Kate 
W.,  539  ;  Katie,  472  ;  474  ;  Landon, 
121,  130,  154,212-216,218,227,397- 
401 ;  216,  243,  397 ;  Laura  B.,  484  ;  Law- 
rence D.,  475  ;  Lewis  B.,  532  ;  533 ;  (H.), 
657 ;  (R.),  475 ;  (W.),  544  ;  Lilith,  306  ; 
Louis  W.,  244, 543, 544 ;  Louisa,  26 ;  485 ; 
(E.),  29 ;  209,  227,  257,  558-567  ;  Lou- 
ise, 388  ;  557  ;  Lucy  B.,  323  ;  (G.),  391  ; 
541 ;  Madison,  249,  554,  555  ;  Marion  F., 

243,  397  ;  532  ;  536  ;  Margaret,  62  ; 
130,  209,  216-220,  226,  401-446 ;  208, 
339-354,388;  393;  584;  (C),  323; 
673;  (E.),  314;  323;  557;  (J.),  127, 
129,  202,  227 ;  (P.),  318,  320  ;  (R.  V.), 
267-272  ;  (W.),  190, 316, 317  ;  Marie  W., 
469;  Martha,  26;  (B.),  ;384;  (E.),  384; 
(J.),  485  ;  Mary,  19 ;  21 ;  24 ;  72,  see 
Horsley ;  131,  132,  140,  141  ;  472 ;  591, 
592;  (A.),  26;  171,272,  273,605-610; 
319 ;  465  ;  466  ;  550 ;  (A.  H.),  232,  486  ; 
(B.),  389, 391, 428 ;  476 ;  (C),  323 ;  392  ; 
(Davis),  556  ;  (E.),  208,  365-369  ;  247  ; 
484;  (F.),  479,  480;  485;  (H.),  141; 
232-236,  240,  486-515,  545  ;  583  ;  (M.), 

244,  278  ;  (P.),  484  ;  (P.  R.),  231,  477  ; 
(T.),  25  ;  (V.  E.),  392,  393 ;  (W.),  472  ; 
541,549;  (W.  C),  263,  267;  Mayo,  208, 
265,  268,  320,  352,  366,  388-396 ;  381 ; 
388;  391 ;  393;  (C),  171;  Mildred  C, 
208;  (H.),  208;  (M.),  190,  306,  307; 
Nancy  B.,  485  ;  Nathaniel  Francis,  63, 
64,  94,  95,  122,  144,  153,  184,  188.  226, 
268,  2-71,  272,  392,  546,  601-605;  (W.), 
472;  Nicholas,  19-23,  44;  62,  63,  72, 
99,  108,  119,  132,  141,  145-156,  164, 
171,  176,  227,  251,  263  ;  chUdren,  249- 
273;  branch,  558-610;  171,  267-272, 
601-605;  231;  (C),  227,  257;  (M.), 
190 ;  Nina  E.,  393 ;  Norma,  536 ;  Oliver, 
557;  Patrick  H.,  190,  318;  209,  396, 
397;  314;  319;  323;  381,  382;  (H. 
C),  323 ;  Paul  C,  208,  384-388 ;  171 ; 
208;  381,  383,  384;  384,  386;  387; 
Paulina,  130,  209-212  ;  243,  531,  532  ; 
(H.),  536,  537 ;  (J.),  142,  144,  145 ;  145, 
216,243;  249,  550;  (J.  H.),  247;  (R.), 
190,  316 ;  (V.),  244,  542,  543 ;  Pauline, 
554;  Philip  B.,  604,  605;  (M.),  605; 
Pocahontas,  465 ;  466  ;  469  ;  (R.),  470, 
471 ;  465,  468  ;  484  ;  (R.  B.),  228,  229, 
231  ;  Powhatan,  476  ;  (A.),  477  ;  (B.), 
470,  475  ;  Rachel,  20-22,  45  ;  Randoph, 
388  ;  Ranulf.  5  ;  Richard,  10  ;  10 ;  10- 
13;  13-15;  18;  15-18;  23;  20;  (H.), 
539,  540;  (R.),  232  ;  485,  486  ;  Robert 
B. ,  232,  484,  485  ;  231 ;  466 ;  480 ;  484  ; 
(D.),  25;  (G.),  26,  28;  258;  572-574; 
573  ;  (H.),  216,  298, 397-401 ;  465  ;  468; 
469;  485;  (S.),  391,  395;  (W.),  29; 
Robertus,  3  ;  Royall  E.,  323  ;  Rudoph 
W.,  544;  Ruth  H.,  391;  Sallie  D., 
476;  (F.),  604;  (J.  S.),  319;  (M.),  384- 
386;  (R.),  387;  Sally  S.,  314;  ISamuel, 
13,14;    15,  17,18;  31;  (J.),  103,107, 


117-121,  130,  138,  154,  176-190,  198, 
228,  306,  364,  304-324;  125,  247-249, 
550-557;  190,  314,  364;  314;  319; 
323;  556;  (R.),  249,  556;  (S.),  479; 
Sarah,  11;  21 ;  243 ;  551;  (A.),  550, 
551 ;  (B.),231,  454-462  ;  (C),  208,  376- 
379 ;  (D.),  476  ;  (E.),  470,  477  ;  585 ; 
(J.),  485;  (R.),  31)1,  429;  (S.),  244; 
305  ;  322  ;  466  ;  (W.),  241-243  ;  247, 
546, 547, 536  ;  Sears,  479, 480, 484 ;  480 ; 
486 ;  Selden,  584  ;  Somers,  323 ;  Sopho- 
nisba  E.,  231,  451-454;  Susan,  480; 
(B.),  466;  466;  (C),  484;  (J.),  556; 
(S.),  550;  (T.),  539;  (V.),554  ;  Susanna 
E.,  248,  249;  (W.),  258-260;  Symes 
T.,  306;  Thomas,  4;  20;  31;  (A.),  29; 
(H.).  557;  (S.),  25,  26;  Virginia,  318, 
319 ;  (C),  398,  399 ;  (J.),  470 ;  (M.), 
485,  486 ;  Waller  R.,  539 ;  Walter,  2,  3, 
5;  5;  10;  32,  78;  (C),  533,  585; 
WUliam,  11  ;  1,  11,  15,  18, 19;  19,  44; 
2,  26,  27  ;  24,  25, 34  ;  25,  26  ;  (emigrant), 
iv,  1,  11, 15, 18-22,  32-72, 74,75,  80,  81, 
100,  123,  129,  131-133,  140-142,  146, 
147,  158,  168,  170,  175,  176,  212,  219, 
227,  246,  267,  269,  306,  325,  381,454, 
526  ;  his  children,  73-171  ;  grandchil- 
dren, 172-273  ;  descendants,  274-610 ; 
32,  54,  61,  62,  66,  72,  74-139,  142-144, 
146-152,  154,  159,  164,  176,  177,  181, 
183-187,  190-192,  195,  190,  199,  202, 
206,  213,  216,  219-221,  234,  250,  251, 
340,  381,  560,  598;  his  children,  176- 
227  ;  branch,  304-446,  558-567 ;  105, 
106,  110,  120,  121,  130,  144,  154,  176, 
177,  185,  190-204,  206,  208,  209,  211- 
213,  215,  216,  222,  234,  251,  252,  259, 
261,  268,  340,  396,  301-397  ;  393  ;  551 ; 
(A.),  305  ;  466;  (A.  S.),  305,  317  ;  (B.), 
20;  (C),  472  ;  (D.),  379,  389,  391,  392; 
391;  604;  (E.),  249,  550-552;  557; 
(F.  L.),  27 ;  (H.),  154,  156,  171,  202, 
203,  206,  227,  228,  249-258,  262,  265, 
267,  462,  558-591;  260;  485;  573; 
583  ;  (H.  L.),  30  ;  (J.),  208,  364  ;  384, 
385;  (J.  L.),  243;  (L.),  11,  26,  29; 
470,  472-475;  (M.),  381;  (N.),  232; 
480;  (P.),  533;  544;  (S.),  190,  304, 
364,  439;  306;  (W.),  258;  314;  554. 

Cabell  arms,  8,  9  ;  County,  253,  292. 

Cabell's  Addition,  398;  Dale,  233-235, 
452,  488,  490,  491,  497,  500,  502, 
511. 

Cabellsburg,  61, 186,  202. 

CabellsviUe,  202. 

Cabin  Point,  435. 

Cable  (see  Cabell),  Benjamin  T.,  James, 
Lucie  K.,  Philander,  530. 

Cahaba  (Ala.),  299. 

"  Ca  Ira,"  221. 

Cairo  (IU.),_393. 

Calcutta,  25. 

Caldwell,  Judge,  304;  Sarah,  William 
(emigrant),  .502. 

Calhoun,  Ezekiel  W.,  310 ;  Frances,  589 : 


INDEX 


617 


John  C,  310,  544, 589,  602 ;  310 ;  Mary 
H.,  310. 
California,  67,  280,  328, 329, 348,  355,  370, 

375,  437,  479,  485,  486,  495,  524,  525, 
547,  60S. 

Calland,  Joseph,  165. 

Callaway,  Alice  A.,  369;  Ann  K,  367; 
Eliza  C,  368;  Elizabeth,  295,  296; 
Elvira  H.,  367  ;  Fayette,  367  ;  Frances, 
295  ;  George,  365,  366,  384,  388 ;  367 ; 
(C),  369;  James,  159,  365-367,  549; 
Mary,  168;  (E.),  364-367;  (L.),  368: 
Paul  C,  367,  368 ;  Richard,  235,  295, 
296,  367;  Sarah,  235,  295;  (B.),  368; 
(C),  367,  427  ;  William,  367,  368  ;  (J.), 
367 ;  (R.),  369. 

CaUaway  Co.  (Ky.),  296  ;  (Mo.),  175,  294. 

Calmes  family,  515. 

Calthorpe,  Frances,  336. 

Cambridge  (E.),  29,  175,  417,  486,  487 ; 
(Mass.),  327,  543,  590. 

Camden  (S.  C),  213. 

Camden,  William,  4  ;  386. 

Camra,  Elizabeth,  John,  302. 

Camp,  Ichabod,  60,  80, 107. 

Camp  Creek  Meeting,  69,  288,  290. 

Campbell- Alexander  (P.),  300 ;  Alice, 
449,  451;  Anna  B.,  546;  Archibald, 
449  ;  Charles,  412 ;  Clai-a,  449 ;  Dougal, 
Duncan  (emigrant),  Elizabeth  H.,  3U0; 
Frank  A.,  3U1 ;  George  W.  B.,  Henry 
T.,  545;  James  D.,  449;  (L.),  545; 
John,  191;  300;  (C),  545;  (L.),  .300; 
Judith  S.,  545  ;  Lavinia  B.,  300 ;  Lilian 
P.,  545 ;  Maria,  545  ;  Mary,  449 ;  N.  H., 
644,  545  ;  546 ;  Neil,  62,  89,  133  ;  PhUip 
B.,  546  ;  R.  K.,  545,  .546,  603 ;  Robert, 
545;  (A.),  300;  (S.),  300,  449;  Sarah 
B.,  501 ;  Susan  C,  545 ;  Thomas  B., 
545 ;  Virginia  E.,  571 ;  William,  188, 
501;  .545;  (S.),  571. 

Campbell  Co.,  69,  229,  240,  243,  286,  288, 
290,  295,  330,  340,  342,  367,  368,  372, 

376,  438,  439,  526,  531, 538,  560. 
Campbellsville  (Ky.),  554. 
Canada,  436,  437,  445. 
Canfield,  Caroline,  492. 

Cannon,  John,  38,  158 ;  William,  158. 

Cannonsburg,  528. 

Cape  of  Good  Hope,  27. 

Capell  (see  Cabell),  Daniel,  Richard, 
Sam'iel,  22,  23  ;  Richard,  22,  23,  66. 

Cargill.  Mary,  591. 

Carlton,  Edward,  143. 

"Carlton,"  407,  443,445. 

"  Carnwath,"  415,  416,  418. 

Carolina,  423,  424,  456. 

Caroline  Co.,  242,  314,  337,  354. 

Carpenter,  Hannah,  393  ;  Jane,  308 ;  Wil- 
liam, 312. 

Carr,  Dabney,  61,  145 ;  John,  47 ;  Miss, 
464;  Orie,"527. 

Carrington,  Abram  C,  568,  570 ;  Adaline 
M.,  568  ;  Agnes  G.,  5.59,  565  ;  Alexander 
B.,  568,  571 ;  AKred  R.,  566  ;  Alice  C, 


535;  Ann,  157,  167,  168;  192,  200,  204, 
366, 389  ;  157,  272  ;  (L.),  571 ;  Benjamin, 
272, 273  ;  608 ;  (G.),  605 ;  Bennie  F.,  609 ; 
Caroline  T.,  535  ;  Carter  I.,  606  ;  Charleu 
A.,  609  ;  (C),  534 ;  (R.),  535 ;  (V.),  .571 ; 
Clement,  199,  226 ;  (R.),  570 ;  Edgar  W.. 
568;  570;  Edward,  160-163,  165,-574; 
(C),  361,  534  ;  Eleanor  S.,  535  ;  Eliza- 
beth C,  272  ;  559.  564,  565  ;  (D.),  568 ; 
(H.),  273,  609,  610;  608;  (L.),  562; 
Ella  W.,  567  ;  Emma  C,  568 ;  (L.),  559, 
567 ;  Eugene  J.,  6U9  ;  Fanny  V.,  571 ; 
Florence  A.,  566  ;  609 ;  Frances  J.,  605  ; 
Frank  B.,  569;  George  {emigrant),  38, 
40,  .50,  51,  97,  102,  113,  143,  147,  157- 
168,  207,  238,  249,  272,  345,  375,  561 ; 
161,  163-166  ;  (B.),273  ;  (C),  .532,  534; 
535;  (G.).  566;  (W.),  273;  Gideon  S, 
608;  Gilbert  M.,  609;  (P.),  273,  608, 
609 ;  Grace  D..  607 ;  Grattan  C,  571  ; 
Hannah,  147,  156,  157,  171  ;  Harriet  M., 
607,  6U8 ;  Henningham,  168 ;  Henry, 
538-559,  572  ;  (A.),  .559,  565-567 ;  (L.), 
566 ;  Heyward,  569 ;  Isa,  573 ;  Isaac, 
570;  (H.),  .568,  .569;  James  L.,  273, 
608  ;  John  C,  566,  567 ;  (M.),  .535  ;  (P. 
M.),  534;  (R.),  .568;  Joseph,  161,  165, 
272;  (N.),  272,  60.5-607;  Lettice,  363  ; 
585  ;  Lillie,  606 ;  Lottie,  566 ;  567  ;  Lou- 
isa C,  568,  571;  (E.),  .562;  Louise  C, 
566,  567 ;  Lucas  T.,  535 ;  Malcolm,  569 ; 
Marcellus,  535  ;  Margaret,  205 ;  535  ;  .5.59 ; 
569 ;  Marion  M..  569 ;  Martha  G.,  605  ; 
Mary,  268, 281, 562 ;  345 ;  (A.),  605,  606 ; 
(B.),  60S;  (C),  569;  608,  609;  (E.K 
567  ;  (L.),  535  ;  Matthew  B.,  .566 ;  Mat- 
tie,  .537;  Mayo,  185;  (B.),  273;  608; 
Mildred  C,  534;  -570;  Nannie  S...569; 
Nelly  H.,  535  ;  Nicholas  C,  608  ;  Otelia 
M.,  .566,  567;  Paul,  168;  102,  119,  151, 
159,  192,  199,  204-207,  211,  217,  268, 
281,  363,  .537,  5.58,  567,  585  ;  534,  567, 
573;  (C),  .559;  (J.),  534,  535;  (S.), 
567 ;  570 ;  571 ;  Paulina  E..  559,  562- 
564;  Percy  L.,  606;  Priscilla,  206; 
Reid  C,  606  ;  Richard  B.,  535 ;  Robert, 
537;  (G.),  .568,  569;  Sarah,  535;  (R.), 
570 ;  Seddon,  569 ;  Sophonisba,  273, 
607,  608;  Susan,  5,34;  .535;  Thomas, 
534 ;  (T.  B.),  537 ;  Virginia  R.,  609 ; 
Walter  B.,  605;  (C),  .533-.535;  (S.), 
535  ;  008 ;  William  A.,  568-570  ;  (C), 
255,  559-562  ;  566 ;  .570  ;  605, 606  ;  Wil- 
liamiue  C,  562 ;  Willie  A  ,  608. 

Carroll,  Anna  L.,  317 ;  De  Rosa,  475 ; 
family,  530  ;  Mary  A.,  475. 

Carson,  James,  Katharine,  496 ;  T.  M., 
438. 

Carter,  Anne,  238 ;  Charles,  266 ;  Chris- 
topher, 21  ;  Edward,  62,  293,  440  ;  293, 
294;  (H.),  298;  family,  288;  447; 
George,  266 ;  James  W.,  343 ;  John 
(emigrant),  293.  432.  590  ;  .53,  293,  440; 
Louise,  376  ;  Maria  B.,  439  ;  440,  Mary 
C,  293,  294;  (E.),  439,  440  ;  (W.),  263, 


618 


INDEX 


266,  267  ;  Miss  Parke,  265,  266  ;  PovaU, 
52;  Robert,  236,  238,  266,  293,  440; 
440 ;  Thomas,  376. 

Cartersville,  249. 

Carteret,  Caroline,  George,  430. 

Cartwright,  Levin,  307  ;  Peter,  125. 

Carv,  Archibald,  50,  85,  446  ;  family,  446, 
447. 

Case,  Jennie  M.  S.,  506. 

Caseleigh,  John,  4. 

Casey  Co.  (Ky.),  248,  550,  551,  554,  556. 

Cash,  W.  S.,  400. 

Caskie,  James,  Margaret,  572. 

Casson.  Sarah,  Thomas,  334. 

Castle.  Franklin,  401. 

"  Castle  Hill,"  69,  408-414,  424. 

Castleraan  family,  526-531  ;  David,  497, 
526  ;  525,  527,  528 ;  Mary  A.,  497  ;  Vir- 
ginia H.,  499,  527. 

"  Castleton,"  526,  529,  530. 

Castlewellan,  584. 

Catawba  Indians,  42,  78. 

Cave,  Annie,  Benjamin  (emigrant),  530. 

Cawthorn,  General,  298. 

Cecil,  Robert,  242. 

Cedar  Creek  Meeting,  68,  322. 

Central  College,  203. 

Centre  College  (Ky.),  490-493,  498,  505, 
507,  .509,  511,512,  514. 

Centre  HUl,  74,  172,  173,  176. 

Chadwick  family,  459-461. 

Chalkley,  Lyman,  508. 

Chalmers,  James,  .510. 

Champe,  John,  294  ;  Sarah,  293,  294,  440. 

Chandler  family,  552  ;  Joel,  37. 

Chanler  family,  424. 

Channing,  Elizabeth,  423. 

ChapeU  Hill  (N.  C),  335,  568;  (Tex.), 
4.52,  461. 

Chapman,  Dr.,  401. 

Chapultepec  (battle),  488. 

Chariton  Co.  (Mo.),  462-468. 

Charles  I.,  14,  15,  36,  168,  231 ;  IL,  386  ; 
Edward,  278. 

Charles  City  Co.,  31,  35,  238,  314,  315, 
322,  534. 

Charleston  (8.  C),  108. 183,  184,  2.50, 252, 
358,  383,  546;  (W.  Va.),  245,  547,  548, 
591. 

Charlotte  (K  C),  281,360;  County  (Va.), 
149,  159,  192,  199,  204,  205,  207-211, 
217,  218,  220,  2.52,  283,  .335,342,  344, 
345,  363,  364,  448,  537,  558,  560,  562, 
56.5-568,  570,  585,  592,  593,  595. 

Charlottesville,  35,  99,  113.  114,  193,  200, 
217,  400,  425,  426,  428,  431-433,  436, 
440,  441,  443,  444,  462,  504,  570,  592, 
597. 

Charlton,  Richard,  102,  143. 

Chatham  (Va.),  372,  .564. 

Cheatham,  W.  S.,  485. 

Cheeke,  Mrs.,  459  ;   William,  176. 

Cherokee  Indians,  78,  151,  4.54,  589. 

Chesapeake  and  Ohio  R.  R.,  40,  74,  80, 
176,  357,  423,  450,  539,  586. 


Chesterfield  Co.  (Va.),  36,  59,  163,  173, 
229,231,286,581,604. 

Chestnut  (or  Southwest)  Mountains,  69, 
189. 

Chew  family,  402,  403  ;  John  {emigrant), 
399,  402  ;  Margaret  0.,  399. 

Chicago,  439,  521-523,  526,  541,  573. 

Chili,  434,  437,  517. 

Chilton,  Hezekiah,  292. 

China,  436,  437. 

Chisman,  Anne,  336. 

ChisweU,  John,  53,  83,  133. 

Cholmley,  Margaret,  Richard,  16. 

Christian  family,  374,  375  ;  George,  448 ; 
James,  274 ;  Sarah,  274. 

Churchill,  James,  324. 

Chumbusco  (battle),  488. 

Cincinnati  (O.),  70,  322,  341,  357,  402- 
406,  515,  605 ;  Society,  153,  187,  256, 
377,  432. 

City  Point,  113. 

Ci-vdl  War  :  Confederate  government, 
officials,  soldiers,  etc.,  275,  276,  279, 
281,  283,  286-288,  291,  294,  297-299, 
302,  305,  .307-311,  313-318,  322,  323, 
327-331,  333,  335,  336,  344,  345,  347, 
348,  350,  351,  354-356,  358,  359,  361- 
364,  371,  372,  375,  376,  378,  382-386, 
391-393,  395,  399,  403,  405,  408,  409, 
420,  423,  428,  430,  434,  437,  438,  441, 
444,  445,  453,  456-458,  460,  466,  467, 
470,  471,  473-177,  479,  482,  484,  488, 
491-496,  506-508,  512-514,  523-525, 
528,  529,  532,  536,  544,  548,  .549,  5.54, 
565,  568-571,  573,  577-580,  585,  586, 
590,  597,  600,  604,  606,  609 ;  United 
States  government,  officials,  soldiers, 
etc.,  70,  383,  .393,  398, 405, 435, 459,  489, 
493,  499,  501,  502,  509  510,  513,  516, 
517,  531,  549,  556. 

Clack  family,  282, 

Claiborne,  Augustine,  220;  Elizabeth  C, 
471;  family,  328,  329;  George  C,  471; 
Hamilton  C,  Herbert  A.,  Jeanie  A., 
590,  591 ;  Leonard,  Letitia,  Livingston, 
Pocahontas  B,,  Tyler  H,,  471 ;  Sterling, 
220  ;  William  (emigrant),  328,  590. 

Claiborne  Co.  (Miss.),  307,  30t>-312. 

Clark,  Ann  P.,  513;  Anne,  504;  A.  I., 
.543  ;  Benjamin,  504  ;  Bennett,  1^90 ;  Bol- 
ing  (Bowlen,  etc.),  69,  321 ;  Catherine 
W.,  419  ;  Christopher,  47,  09,  290,  321, 
322;  290;  Cora  L,,  543;  Dr.,  229;  Ed- 
ward,  69,  321 ;   Elizabeth,  321 ;    (M.), 

289,  292;  family,  327-331;  Frances, 
291 ;  George  Rogers,  80,  107,  290,  344, 
504;  James,  290;  John,  504  ;  (B.),  290; 
Jonathan,  504;  Jordan,  513;   Micajah, 

290,  321;  Nancy,  537 ;  Patterson,  290; 
Penelope,  290,  321;  Richard  S.,  419; 
Robert,  289;  290;  Sarah,  69;  Susan- 
nah, 290 ;  William,  504. 

Clark  Co.  (Ky.),  289,  290. 

Clarke,  Colin,  J.  Lyle,  Mary  L.,  331. 

Clarke  Co.  (Va.),  320,  392,  394,  431,  515. 


INDEX 


619 


Clarkson  family,  486  ;  Nathan  H.,  520. 

Clarksville,  355-357. 

Clay,  Ann  C.  E.,  285,  286;  Cassius  M., 
518,  524 ;  Charles,  63,  286  ;  Henry,  123, 
145,  286,  341,  372,  408,  493,  576,  582; 
John,  132, 145 ;  Lucretia,  508 ;  Odin  G., 
286 ;  Thomas  H.,  509. 

Clayton,  Ann,  245,  247,  285,  286 ;  John, 
247;  (emigrant),  247,  285;  247,  285, 
368 ;  Lucy,  368. 

Clemens,  Samuel,  352. 

Clements,  Kate,  472. 

Cleveland.  President,  386,  474. 

"  Clifton,"  237,  238,  519  ;  Forge,  314. 

Clinch  River,  413. 

Clinkscales,  Louisa,  468. 

Clinton,  Sir  H.,  416. 

Clopton,  Rev.  Mr.,  280. 

Clover  HiU,  359;  Plains,  172,  173,  227, 
446. 

Cobb,  Lucy  W.,  546. 

Cobbs,  John  F.,  362  ;  Mary  F.,  359,  361 ; 
Samuel,  207 ;  Susan  C,  359,  362  ;  W. 
W.,  362. 

Cochraine,  Catherine  A.,  423. 

Cocke,  Anne  B.,  602 ;  Ben,  38 ;  family, 
-378,  604;  James,  454;  James  P.,  59; 
John  H.,  407,  603;  Rev.  Mr.,  391; 
Richard  (emigrant),  378.  604. 

Cockerill,  Miss,  534. 

CockreU,  F.  M.,  467. 

Codi-ington  family,  168. 

Cold  Harbor  (battle),  444,  489,  494,  586. 

Cole,  Walter  King,  219. 

Coleman,  Alexander  R.,  445 ;  Benjamin, 
115 ;  Clara  H.,  John  J.,  539 ;  famUy, 
472;  PriseillaS.,  Thomas  G.,  445. 

Coles,  Agnes  C,  585  ;  Edward,  440  ;  Isaac, 
568;  John  (emigrant),  .534;  212,  216, 
440;  568;  Mary,  440;  568;  MUdred 
H.,  362;  534;  Mr.,  199;  SaUie,  326, 
329 ;  Walter,  326,  534 ;  362,  585. 

Colleton  (E.),  14 ;  (Va.),  199,  202, 261, 365. 

Collier  family,  478. 

Colonial  Dame,  42,  126. 

Colorado,  421,  429,  445,  466,  481,  607. 

Colquhoim,  Ann  J.,  Thomas,  303. 

Colson,  H.  M.,  Lucy  H.,  313. 

Col  ton.  Prudence,  23. 

Columbia  (Ark.),  609;  (Ky.),  553,  -554, 
.557  ;  (Mo.),  581,  .582  ;  (Va.),  39, 41, 193. 

Columbia  CoUege  (N.  Y.),  299,  417,  418; 
.505;  (S.  C),  329. 

Comack,  Jane,  460. 

Comanche  Indians,  475. 

Combs,  Leslie,  493. 

Comfort,  David,  305,  372. 

Committees  :  of  Correspondence,  93  ;  of 
Safety  (State),  97-104,  149,  177-181, 
206, 414  ;  of  Districts,  99,  101, 102, 142, 
148,  164 ;  of  Counties,  95,  97,  99,  100, 
102,  1.59,  167  ;  (Albemarle),  159,  564 ; 
(Amelia),  163  ;  (Amherst),  97,  99-103, 
1.59,  177,  178,  214;  (Bedford),  1.59; 
(Buckingham),  101,  102,  128,  142,  143, 


159,  163 ;  (Charlotte),  159,  205,  562 ; 
(Chesterfield),  163  ;  (Cumberland),  102, 
1-59-167,  237, 238, 272, 400, 561 ;  (Gooch- 
land), 163  ;  (Hanover),  .561 ;  (Henrico), 
561  ;  (Lousia),  561 ;  (Prince  Edward), 
163. 

Commonwealth  (The),  97. 

Comptesse,  Anne,  Dr.,  537. 

Congress,  93,  95,  160,  161,  182,  187,  200, 
205,  241,  263,  264,  341,  357,  360,  417, 
442,  443,  481, 487,  494,  568  ;  (Members 
of),  161, 442, 487, 522, 567, 568;  (Senate), 
235,  .391,  407,  408,  421,  479,  480,  483, 
494,  508,  517,  5.35,  536 ;  (House  of  Rep- 
resentatives), 187,  200,  235,  241,  275, 
290,  306,  311,  333,  360,  3(>2,  380,  386, 
399,  405,  407,  411,  421,  440,  459,  476, 
482,  494,  496,  576. 

Connecticut,  60,  289,  401,  418,  422,  487, 
488,  498,  564. 

Conner,  Daniel,  112. 

Constitution  (G.  M.),  104;  (U.  S.),  117- 
119,  515. 

Contee,  John,  Sylvia,  459. 

Contesse,  Anne,  Dr.,  537. 

Contreras  (battle),  488. 

Convention  prisoners,  106,  219. 

Conventions  :  (1774  -  1776),  188,  599  ; 
(August,  1774),  93-95,  100,  134,  205, 
414 ;  (May,  1775),  97, 134, 160,  205,  414, 
564;  (July,  177-5),  98-100,  134,  147,148, 
162,  164,  205,  229,  414;  (December, 
1775),  101,  102, 1.35,  177,  178,  206,  380, 
414 ;  (May,  1776),  103, 104, 128, 136,  137, 
143,  149, 166,  180, 181,206,295  ;  (1788), 
117-119  ;  187,  206  ;  (1829), 301, 376,469, 
604 ;  (1861),  .335,  360,  539 ;  (Fla.),  575  ; 
(Ky.),  235  ;   (Mo.),  465,  517. 

Cook  family,  291. 

Cooke,  George,  427;  Mordecai,  Susanna, 
215. 

Cooper,  Jane,  607. 

Corbett  family,  591. 

Corbin  family,  520  (see  380,  432). 

Cornish.  Rev.  Mr.,  586. 

Cornwall  Parish,  205. 

ComwaUis,  Lord,  100,  109,  112,  115,  139, 
1.53,  192-198. 

"  Corotoman,"  238,  266,  293. 

Corpus  Christi  College,  421. 

Couch,  Anna  W.,  320  ;  Edward,  Hallie  A., 
467  ;  Samuel,  320. 

Counterfeit  money,  93,  107. 

Country  homes,  124-127. 

County  organization,  34,  35,  etc. ;  Lieu- 
tenant, 36-38,  49,  50,  61,  77,  79,  128, 
137,  142,  164,  186,  205,  207,  214,  366, 
367,  378,  387,  594. 

Court  of  Appeals,  250-2.54,  329, 348,  443, 
567,  574. 

Covington  (Ky.),  506, 515, 518, 520;  (Va.), 
.389,  423. 

Cowan,  Robert,  369  ;  William,  61,  369. 

Cowley,  John,  67. 

Cowpens  (battle),  112,  292,  297. 


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INDEX 


Cox,  Marion  H.,  Richard,  430 ;  William, 
145. 

Craddock  family,  565. 

Craft  family,  491. 

Craig  family,  312 ;  James,  204 ;  Thomas, 
85,  88. 

Crall^  family,  544 ;  R.  K.,  544, 602. 

Craney  Island  (battle),  433. 

Crasliaw,  Joseph,  590. 

Crawford,  Ann,  301 ;  Bennet  A.,  597  ; 
Charles,  215,  291,  292,  339,  3(56,  380, 
597;  David  (emigrant),  189;  61,  301, 
698;  61,  100,  287;  Elizabeth,  189,  287; 
287,  290 ;  Lucy,  597  ;  Nathan,  154, 
201  ;  Nelson,  597 ;  William,  365,  366, 
597 ;  (H.),  306  ;  (S.),  215,  235,  366. 

Crittenden,  J.  J.,  518,  581;  Mrs.  J.  J., 
581,582. 

Croker,  William,  179. 

Cromer  Hall  (E.),2,  19,20. 

Cromwell  family,  231,  432. 

Crook,  General,  509. 

Cross  family,  499. 

Crossly,  John  P.,  485. 

Crowdus  family,  551,  552. 

Crutchfield,  Eleanor  P.,  570. 

Cuba,  389,  475,  495. 

Cullen,  Charlotte  E.,  John,  565,  566. 

Culpeper  Co.,  98,  375,  549,  601. 

Cumberland,  Duke  of,  50. 

Cumberland  Co.  (Va.),  50,  94,  102,  113, 
147,  157-168,  204,  221,  236,  237,  246, 
272,  279,  302,  382,  400,  519,  520,  524, 
525,  .543,  544,  574,  606;  (Mountains), 
296;  (Md.),  506;  (E.),  590. 

Cumniing's,  Elizabeth,  John,  514. 

Cunningham  family,  567. 

"  Curies,"  272,  317.  583. 

Currie,  John  R.,  474,  475. 

Curtis,  Patrick,  566. 

Curwen,  George,  590. 

Cushing,  Mr.,  396,  397. 

Dahney  family,  244,  560,  561  ;  John  C, 
and  family,  343;  Mrs.  Edwards,  244; 
Elizabeth,  604 ;  Mary,  188,  325  ;  R.  L., 
358,  570 ;  William,  244,  561,  604. 

Dal  by,  Virginia,  360. 

Dale,  William,  45. 

Dalton,  Samuel,  189. 

Dana,  Rev.  Mr.,  318. 

Dandridge,  Dorothea,  324,  325;  Eliza, 
305,  317;  Mary,  546;  Nathaniel  W., 
William,  325. 

Daniel,  Eliza,  243  ;  Elvira  A.,  393  ;  Fannie, 
400  ;  James,  38,  39,  48,  49,  53,  76,  130, 
350,  400;  John,  350;  (W.),  390,  .574; 
Mary  C.  B.,  390  ;  Nancy,  350  ;  Paulina, 
145;  Peter  V.,  191;  Travers,  191; 
William,  145,  216,  243,  261,  390,  393, 
400,  574 ;  390,  393,  574,  586  ;  400;  165, 
400;  553. 

Dan  River,  113. 

Danville,  296,  361,  362,  .371,  372,423, 469, 
471,  472,   476,  477,  571 ;   (Academy), 


476;   (Ky.),  501,  506,507,  599;  (Semi- 

narv),  500,  511. 
Darneille,  Isaac,  153,  199,  217. 
Davenport    family,    422;     G.    A.,    329; 

Thomas,  165. 
Davidson  College  (N.  C),  693;    County 

(Tenn.),  394. 
Davidson   family,   447;    Rev.    Dr.,   234; 

Thomas,  450  ;  William,  467. 
Davies,  Ann  Clayton,  244,  245,  247,  285, 

286 ;  f amUy,  285-288 ;  Henrv  Ann,  244, 

245  ;  Henry  Landon,  244-247,  285,  287  ; 

Nicholas  (emigrant),  38,  50,  53, 54,  245- 

247,  285. 
Davis,  Abigail,  43,  387 ;  Ashley  L.,  and 

family,  477  ;  Charles  L.,  536 ;  Hannah, 

43,   269;  Henry  Winter,  434;  Horatio 

Davis  family,  347 ;  Jefferson,  43,  438, 

473,   494,   578-580;   Martha,  43,  269, 

468;  Mary,  43,  59;  Mr.,  21;  Nathaniel 

(emigrant),  43,  269  ;  Philip,  43  ;  Robert, 

43,  53,  54,   387 ;  44 ;  Robert  J.   Davis 

family,  385  ;  Samuel,  43. 
Dawson  family,  276  ;  John,  61,  100. 
Day,  Fannie  L.,  433  ;  Mary  I.,  R.  H.  B., 

318. 
Deane,  Frank,  426 ;  Naimie,  280. 
Dearborn,  Major,  182. 
De  Charms,  Richard,  602. 
De  Hart,  Abigail,  298,  397  ;  W.  W.,  298. 
Dehon,  Ann,  Bishop,  418. 
De  Kalb,  Baron,  256. 
De  Lancey  family,  416. 
Delaney,  Charles,  468. 
Delaware,  291,  293,  336,  338,  503,   506, 

507,  604. 
De  la  Warr,   Lord,    Si5.    See    Thomas 

West. 
De  Long,  Captain,  311. 
Dengler,  Clara,  466. 
Denham,  Hugh,  46. 
Dennis,  J.  S  ,  453. 
Denny  family,  550  ;  Mary  A.  B.,  Robert, 

277. 
Desha,  Issa,  J.  R..  508. 
Des  Meux,  Mr.,  399. 
Dettingen  Parish,  442. 
De  Vere,  M.  Scheie,  Minna  E.,  444. 
Devises  (E.),  282. 
Devonshire,  2,  6,  10-18,  27,  269. 
Devore  family,  526. 
Dew,  Thomas  R.,  372. 
De  Witt  family,  276. 
Dick,  Charles,  41-3. 
Dickie,  James,  57. 
Dickins,  Thomas,  38. 
Dickinson,  Asa  D.,  210,  372-374  ;  family, 

374. 
Dickinson  College  (Pa.),  339,  490. 
Digges,  Dudley,  348  ;  38,  47  ;  348 ;  John, 

61,  100  ;  Mary  H.,  281 ;  Susannah,  348. 
Dillard,  EUzabeth,  472 ;  James,  61,  100 ; 

111,  179. 
Dinwiddle,    Alexander,  435  ;  Robert,  76, 

77,  88,  413,  435. 


INDEX 


621 


Dinwiddie  Co.  (Va.),  197,  349,  368,  544. 

District  of  Columbia,  348,  392. 

DiuguidsviUe,  176,  221. 

Dixon,  Archibald  Dixon's  family,  481- 
483 ;  Henry,  Sarah,  Susan,  453. 

Dixon  and  Hunter,  165, 179. 

Doctors,  33,  34,  55,  130,  etc. 

Dodd,  Frances,  551. 

Donald,  Alexander,  218,  220-222. 

Dornin,  Eva  L.,  284  ;  James  J.,  285. 

Dorset,  2,  6,  17,  225,  350,  526,  583. 

Dorsey,  Ida  M.,  429. 

Doswell  family,  469 ;  Peyton,  478. 

Douglass,  Commodore,  252  ;  family,  491 ; 
James,  Mary,  293  ;  Rev.  Mr.,  190. 

Doune  (Downe),  Gabriel,  13. 

Douthat,  Miss,  388. 

Dover  (Va.),  33,  75,  130,  583. 

Dow,  William,  284. 

Downshire,  Marquis  of,  208. 

D'Oyly  CabeU,  17;  Cholmley,  John,  16- 
18. 

Drake  family,  168. 

Dress  (colonial),  83,  84,  122,  123. 

Drew,  Will,  115. 

Drogheda,  Viscount,  456. 

Drury's  Bluff  (battle),  477. 

Dublin,  566  ;  University,  349. 

Dadlev,  Eliza  S.,  437;  family,  510;  Sam- 
uel E.,  and  family,  309 ;  Thomas,  520. 

Dudley's  defeat,  290. 

Duke,  R.  T.  W.,  443. 

Dulaney,  Auner  L.,  Bladen  T.,  345. 

Dunakin,  Daniel,  151. 

Duncan,  Abner  L.,  462 ;  Ella,  374 ;  Mar- 
tin, 52, 

Dundas,  Henry,  24,  25. 

Dunlop  (Dunlap),  Ephraim,  61 ;  family, 
562 ;  Thomas,  385  ;  William,  179. 

Danmore,  Governor,  93,  98,  143,  163, 177, 
181,  380. 

Dunn,  William  J.,  450. 

Dunscombe  family,  277,  278. 

Dupuy  family,  373  ;  Jane,  363. 

Dutch,  51,  67,  213,  338,  416. 

Duval,  Anne  E.,  228,  230 ;  Archibald  B., 
228  ;  Catherine,  474 ;  family,  277,  278 ; 
James  D.,  302  ;  303  ;  Jennie,  479  ;  Mary, 
336 ;  Samuel  Shepherd,  228 ;  479. 

Earle,  Louisa,  299. 

Early,  Elizabeth,  366,  549;  family,  548, 
549  ;  Jubal  A.,  393,  548,  549. 

Earthquakes,  60,  99,  180. 

Easley,  Charles  B.,  and  family,  279  ;  Rob- 
ert H.,  and  family,  564,  565  ;  William 
S.,  and  family,  356. 

Eastin,  George  B.,  529. 

Eaton,  Thomas,  William,  225. 

Echols  family,  297. 

Eclipse  of  1752,  53. 

"  Ecole  des  Fonts  et  Chauss^es,"  422. 

Eddins  family,  461,  462. 

Edgewood,  218,  263,  265,  266,  604. 

Edinburgh  (S.),  91,  376,  503,  564. 


Edmunds,  Henry,  567;  Nicholas,  363; 
Paul  C,  567 ;  Susan,  363. 

Education,  etc.,  33,  34,  65,  73,  75, 122, 130, 
145,  146,  174,  176,  177,  190,  191,  207, 
209,  212,  216,  226-229,  364,  376,  384, 
388,  396,   etc.     See  Schools,   Colleges, 

Edward  I.,  36;  VI.,  12. 

Edwards,  Elizabeth,  531 ;  607  ;  John,  607  ; 
Thomas,  1.58,  229;  W.  H.,  531. 

Eifinger,  Miss,  279. 

Eggleston,  Richard,  163, 165. 

Egypt,  423,  437. 

Eidson,  Elizabeth,  364. 

Elam,  Martha,  454. 

Eldridge,  Mildred  K.,  Rolfe,  382. 

Elections,  82,  85,  92,  95,  106,  120,  134, 
160-162,  164,  166,  186,  187,  200,  297, 
382. 

Elizabeth  (Queen),  12,  599. 

"Elk  HiU  "  (Ky.),  236,  237,515,  520,  526, 
531. 

EUenborough,  Lord,  25. 

Ellerbe,  Eliza  E.,  353. 

Ellet,  Charles,  347,  392,  393 ;  family,  392, 
393. 

Elliot,  Thomas,  179. 

Ellis,  Carrie,  610;  family,  460;  L.  P., 
610  ;  Sarah  J.,  287 ;  Mrs.,  292. 

"  Elm  Cottage,"  144,  243. 

Emerson,  Dr.,  437. 

Emigrant  ancestors,  nationality  of.  See, 
for  those  mentioned  in  the  book,  Dutch, 
England,  Huguenot,  Ireland,  Scotland, 
etc. 

Emlet,  Mary,  294. 

Emmet,  Pendleton,  Thomas,  275. 

Emory  and  Henry  College,  323. 

Enders,  Nannie,  573. 

England:  English  ancestors,  etc.,  1-34, 
44,  67,  69,  74,  82,  130,  175,  220,  222, 
225,  229,  231,  238,  239,  242,  269-271, 
282,  291,  293,  294,  29(3,  299,  303,  327, 
329,  334,  337,  338,  348,  350,  353,  354, 
377,  386,  397,  402,  403,  411,  412,  415- 
417,  421,  425,  430,  435-437,  442,  446, 
452,  453,  464,  474,  481,  483,  487,  488, 
516,  526,  530,  536,  541,  561,  581-583, 
588, 590-592,  607.  Note.  Those  who 
came  up  from  tide-water  Virginia  were 
generally  of  English  origin. 

Epes  (Eppes),  Junius,  Richard  J.,  477. 

Episcopal  (Established)  Church,  35,  96, 
246,  322,  349,  3(55,  366,  390,  430,  432  ; 
Conventions,  174,  201,  242,  260,  272, 
426,  431 ;  High  School,  353,  419,  428, 
429 ;  Theological  Seminary,  269,  271, 
394,  429,  431,  433. 

Essex  Co.  (E.),  588;  (Va.),  215. 

Este,  David  K.,  Louise,  3-37. 

Eubank,  Elizabeth  W.,  Royal  H.,  323. 

Evans,  family,  607;  Miaa,  553;  Sallie, 
293;  William,  552. 

Evanston,  512. 

EvansvLUe,  457. 


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INDEX 


Everard,  Hugh,  231 ;    Richard,  Susanna,  I 

231,  432. 
Everett,  Edward,  415. 
Evreau,  Walter  d',  2-4. 
Ewell,  General,  393. 
Ewing,  family,  467 ;  Susanna,  248,  249. 

Failing  family,  591. 

Fail-fax,  Annie  E.,  351 :  Lord,  446  ;  386. 
Fairfax  C.  H.,  314. 
Fairmount  Church,  178,  366. 
Falling  Kiver,  58. 

Falls  of  James  River,  33,  67.  68,  81,  85, 
92,  96,    157,  239;    town  at,  38.     See 
Richmond. 
Farmer,  Miss,  376. 
Farm\ille,  354,  358-360,  570. 
Farm  well,  320. 

Farrar,  B.  F.,  394,  448,  451 ;  Laura,  394, 
451 ;  Matthew,  447 ;  Thomas,  448 ;  Wil- 
liam, 447. 
Faulkner,  Margaret,  502. 
Fauquier,  Francis,  78,  79,  85,  413. 
Fauquier  Co.,  345,  372, 442,  445,  458, 474, 

530,  536. 
Fayette    Co.    (Ky.),    233,  235-237,    452, 
459-461,  465,  485,  488,  510,  511,  520, 
525,  530. 
Featherstone,  General,  393. 
Fehiger,  Colonel,  256. 
Fellows,  Georgia  Ann,  418. 
Ferguson,  Charles,  299 ;  family,  345. 
"Femley,"  541,  542,549. 
Ferris.  Elizaheth,  317  ;  Richard,  272. 
Field.  Mary,  Peter,  388. 
Fielder  family,  519. 
Fields,  Charles,  540. 
Fillmore.  President,  379,  577. 
Fincastle.  98,  13-5-137  ;  300,  375. 
Findlay.  John,  42,  412. 
Findlay's  Creek,  42,  81 ;  Mountain,  39, 42, 

141. 
Fink,  Albert,  512. 
Finley,  Helen,  538. 
Firly,  Mattie,  301. 
Fisher  family,  337,  338. 
Fitch,  Mary,  492. 

Fitzgerald  family,  360 ;  John  P.,  358, 360. 
Fitz  Hugh,  Anne,   215,    387;    Elizabeth, 
432;  Henry,  215;  William  (emigrant), 
215,  432. 
Fitzpatrick  family,  605,  606. 
Flagg,  John,  543. 

Flemmg,   Charles,    128,   499;    EHzabeth, 
435  ;  (emigrant),  128  ;   family,  70,  426  ; 
John,  37,  38,  128,245  ;  49  ;  Judith.  245, 
246;  Mary,  128;  Tarleton.  37,  38,  245; 
Susanna,    Ursula,  499;  William,    160- 
166;  43.5. 
Fleury,  Colonel,  256. 
Flood,  Fannie,  466. 
Flood  in  James  River,  88,  89. 
Florida.  258,  278,  298,  347,  359,  460,  461, 
471,  4S2,  488,  490,  494,  520,  546,  575- 
578 ;  War,  588. 


Flournoy,  David,  371  ;    family,  354-364 ; 

J.  J.  (emigrant),  355  ;  354,  355, 396, 397 ; 

Thomas  S.,  355,  358,  360-362  ;  William 

C,  355,  357,  358,  393. 

Floyd,  John,  44, 251 ;  Sallie,  387  ;  William, 

43,  44,  387. 
Fluvanna  Co.,  37,  130,  132,  140,  269,  340, 
354,447,448,  451,  608-610;  River,  41, 
68,  69,  76,  80,  2-30. 
Fogden,  Alan  Clifford,  and  family,  29. 
Fontaine,  James,  100,  190, 191 ;  Peter,  100, 
176,  177, 190  ;  William,  96, 99, 100, 190, 
191,  209,  216. 
Foot,  Sarah  F.,  534, 
Ford  family,  582. 
Forge  (The)  Church,  286. 
"Fork  Field,"  142,243. 
Forrest,  General,  307. 
Fortenberg,  Sallie  A.,  308. 
Forts :  Adams,  542  ;  Arbuckle,  473 ;  Cobb, 
473;    Delaware,    310,   311,    358;    Da 
Quesne,  349 ;  Erie,  4S7 ;    Gregg,  310 ; 
McPherson,  542 ;  Plain,  591  ;    Stanwix, 
413  ;  Sumter,  578  ;  Worth,  374,  461. 
Founder's   kin   mentioned :     descendants, 
lineal  or  collateral  of  Argall,  Barring- 
ton,    Bowyer,    BjTd,    Cecil,    Claiborne, 
Codrington,  Cromwell,  Diggs,  etc.,   16, 
128,  141,  168,  170,  231.  242,  247,  322, 
325,  348,  412,  429,  432,  457,  541. 
Fournier,  Miss  C.,  488. 
Fowell,  Edmond,  Elizabeth,  11,  15,  16. 
Fowlkes,  Miss,  534. 
Fownes,  Richard,  17-19 ;  Thomas,  18. 
Fox,  Anne.  328  ;  Joseph,  47 ;  Nathaniel, 

179. 
France,  107,  201,  256,  271,  347,  397,  407, 
419,  421,  423-425,  436,  437,  503,  508, 
585. 
Francis,  David  R.,  530. 
Francisco,  Peter,' 268. 
Frankfort  (Ky.),   235,  291,  483,  489-491, 

493,  496,  515,  .528,  530. 
Franklin,   Benjamin,  269 ;  General,   422  ; 

James,  150. 
Franklin  Co.  (Ala.),  461 :  (Ky.),  508, 552 ; 
(State  of),  217  ;  (Tenn.),  4.59;  (Va.),314, 
316,  340,  546,  548. 
Eraser,  General,  183. 
Frazer,  Miss,  557. 
Frederick,  Essie,  472. 
Frederick  Co.,  210,  377,  431,  504. 
Fredericksburg,  182,  191,  326,  331,  332, 

402,  562,  570;  (battle),  393,  395,  586. 
Frederieksville  Parish,  59,  210. 
Freeman,  Edward  A.,  32. 
Fremont,  General,  405,  525. 
French,  Sarah  H.,  5-34. 
French  and    Indian  Wars.     See    Indian 

Wars. 
Friend  family,  547. 
Frierson,  Edward  O.,  395. 
Frome  or  Froorae-Selwood,  1,6,  7,  9-12, 

18,  20-23. 
Front  Royal  (battle),  361. 


INDEX 


623 


Fry,  Joshua,  48,  49,  52,  70,  76,  77,  170, 
378 ;  Miss,  553  ;  Tabitha,  377. 

Furnace  (see  Iron  works),  103,  104, 
128. 

Gaines,  Daniel,  61,  100,  148,  194,  195  ; 
George  T.,  520 ;  Mary  E.,  345 ;  R.  F., 
345. 

Gait,  Dr.,  Lucy  J.,  540. 

Gamble,  Ag-nes  S.  B.,  250, 25.5-258 ;  James, 
257  ;  Robert  (emigrant),  257  ;  250,  255- 
257,  261,  568. 

Gantt  family,  279. 

Garbee  family,  5.38. 

Gardiner  family,  54.3. 

Gai-land,  David  S.,  202,  .380,  532;  Eliza, 
532;  family,  275,  276;  James,  275, 
382 ;  380  ;  John  B.,  354  ;  Landon  Ca- 
bell, 532;  Mary  R.,  379,  380;  Mary, 
481  ;  Parker.  426  ;  Richard,  481 ;  Sam- 
uel, 395  ;  WiUiam,  380. 

Garnett,  family,  332 ;  R,  B.,  Sarah  A., 
512. 

Garrard,  Eva,  W.  W.,  529. 

Garrett,  Guy,  354. 

Gates,  General,  182. 

Gatewood,  Sallie,  Thomas,  284. 

Gay,  Elizabeth,  William,  605. 

Geddy,  James,  181. 

Gee,  Elizabeth,  294. 

Geldart,  Henry,  and  family,  30. 

General  Assembly  (Colonial) :  Governor, 
Council,  and  House  of  Burgesses,  81, 
85,  87,  97,  98  ;  Council  (members,  etc.), 
105,  238,  239,  328,  403,  411,  412,  423, 
446,  456,  590, 594 ;  House  of  Burgesses, 
37,  38,  78,  79,  81-95, 128,  132-134,  1.58, 
159,  188,  189,  205,  229,  230,  2.38,  239, 
269,  270,  278,  317,  337,  378,  ,387,  388, 
399,  402,  413,  414,  446,  496,583,  590, 
599. 

General  Assembly  (State) :  Governor  and 
Council,  Senate  and  House  of  Dele- 
gates, 104-110,  113-117,  119,  120, 
132,  137,  138,  139,  151,  152,  154,  159, 
163,  167,  186,  193,  199,  201,  202,  206, 
219,  222,  2.50,  252,  2.53,  265,  296,  373 ; 
Council  (members  of,  etc.),  li4, 115. 261, 
362,  414;  Legislature,  241,  250,' 296, 
301,  357,  373,  385,399,  546,  590,  598, 
605  ;    Senate,  104,   105,  107,    11-3-115, 

119,  153,  155,  202,  203,  2.53,  261,  264, 
335,  373,  382,  442,  443,  459,  469,  539, 
561 ;  House  of  Delegates,  114-117, 119, 

120,  137-139,  143,  1.52,  1.53,  186,  199, 
200,  206,  214,  234,  238,  250,  252,  2-53, 
261,  264,  272,  275,  281,  286,  288,  296, 
301,  302,  315,  327,  328,  336,  339,  344, 
355,  372,  ,373,  376,  379,  380,  382,  386, 
403,  407,  426,  438-440,  442,  443,  446, 
469,  5,34,  539,  560,  562,  590,  605. 

General  Assembly  of  Ala.,  456,  601 ;  Ark., 
536  ;  Cal.,  495 ;  Ky.,  235,  483,  489,  403, 
500,  .502,  518,  ,524,  ,525  ;  La.,  524  ;  Md., 
3.38;  Miss.,  311,  609;   Mo.,  289,   297, 


465,  498,  517,  525,  530,  553,  580,  581 ; 
N.Y.,489;  S.  C,  589. 

General  Court  (Va.),  206,  250,  253. 

Geneva,  -355,  436. 

George  II.,  46,  50,  131. 

Georgetown  (Colo.),  445;  (D.  C.)  3.34, 
383,  422,  429;  (Ky.),  495;  (CoUege), 
529. 

Georgia,  270,  306,  366,  436,  488,  529,  542, 
546,  573. 

Gerard,  Deverenx,  59. 

Germaine,  Mary,  425. 

Germany,  283,  346,  4:36,  444,  489,  503, 
505,  522,  544. 

Gerry,  Elbridge,  .347. 

Gettysburg  (battle),  283,  297,  384,  393, 
565,  586 ;  ,339,  341. 

Gibbon,  General,  591. 

Gibbons,  Margaret,  597. 

Gibson  family,  395  ;  Julia,  418. 

Gilbert  family,  168. 

Giles,  Mary,  William,  455. 

Gilkerson  family,  319,  320. 

Gillespie,  Georg'e,  184;  William,  112. 

Gilmer  family,  564;  George,  14S,  200, 
218,  .348,  401,  .564;  (emigrant),  .564;  G. 
Walker,  and  family,  348  ;  John,  148, 
Thomas  W.,  304,  348  ;  WUlie  C,  304. 

Givens,  Martha  G.,  359. 

"  Gladstone,"  74,  450. 

Glasgow  (Ky.),  556;  (Mo.),  466;  'S.), 
20,  91. 

Glasgow  family,  292,  293. 

Glass,  John  S.,  438. 

Glassell,  Johanna,  John,  191. 

"Glenmore,"  365,  366,  388,  389,  427, 
428. 

Glenn,  John,  149. 

Gloucester  Co.  (Va.),  215,  2.38.  244,  282, 
331,  337,  569  ;  (E.),  2,  17,  168,  242. 

Goggin  family,  352. 

Goldsby  family,  600,  601. 

Gooch  family,  275  ;  William,  36,  42,  275. 

Goochland  Co.,  33,  35^8,  .50,  53,  74,  75, 
130-132,  140,  144,  145,  157-159,  163, 
169-171,  189,  207,  2,39,  246,  249,  269, 
276,  294,  317,  ,321,  3,32,  3,33,  340,  350, 
370,  383,  387,  430,  542,  582-584,  604. 

Goode,  Elizabeth  W.,  440 ;  family,  173 ; 
G.  Brown,  173,  331,  .542. 

Goodwin,  F.  D.,  319.  385,  428. 

Goosley,  Frances,  William,  348. 

Gordon,  Alexander,  219  ;  Ann,  418  ;  Annie, 
596  ;  Captain,  349  ;  Edith,  430  ;  George, 
418  ;  James  (emigrant),  594  ;  John  B., 
299 ;  John  and  family,  551 ;  J.  J.,  3.57  ; 
Joel,  553 ;  Mary,  594 ;  Nannie  B.,  553. 

Gordonsville,  194,  594. 

Gould,  Enoch  (emigrant),  168 ;  Frances, 
157,  168. 

Government  (Royal),  I.  King  and  Coun- 
cil, House  of  Lords  and  House  of 
Commons  (Parliament) ;  II.  (Colonial), 
Lord  Governor  and  Deputy  Governor, 
Council  and  House  of  Burgesses  (Gen- 


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INDEX 


eral  Assembly)  ;  III.  County  or  shire 
system,  34-36,  etc.  Intekkegnum  :  I. 
Congress;  U.  Conventions  and  Com- 
mittee of  Safety ;  III.  County  Com- 
mittee. (Federal),  I.  President  and 
Cabinet,  Senate  and  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives (Congress) ;  II.  (State).  Gov- 
ernor and  Council,  Senate  and  House 
of  Delegates  (General  Assembly)  ;  III. 
County  system,  at  first  similar  to  the 
Colonial.  See  Congress,  General  As- 
sembly, etc. 

Gowdey,  Frances,  Thomas,  584. 

Grace  Church,  69,  322,  424. 

Graf  family,  345,  346. 

Graham,  James,  57 ;  Mr.,  350 ;  Rev.  Dr., 
363. 

Grammer,  John,  328-330. 

Grand,  Anne,  George,  512. 

Grant,  A^ds  W.,  571  ;  Edward,  22 ;  Joan, 
44 ;  Samuel,  487  ;  U.  S.,  443,  487. 

Granville  College  (E.),  337;  Co.  (N.  C), 
225. 

"  Grasmere,"  .502. 

Grattan  family,  256,  257. 

Graveley,  Katie,  476. 

Graves,  Thomas,  504  ;  Joseph  A.,  520. 

Gray  (see  Grey),  Edmond,  49,  158; 
family,  584  ;  William,  158. 

Grayson,  Alfred  W.,  and  family,  486- 
488  ;  Robert  H..  and  family,  452-454  ; 
(emigrant),  452 ;  William,  85.  452,  487. 

Great  Bridge  (battle),  177 ;  Mountains, 
412. 

Greeley,  Horace,  474. 

Green.  John  T..  and  family,  312,  313; 
Joseph  K.,  and  family,  306,  307  ;  Pro- 
fessor, 5!  (5. 

'•Green  Hill."  141,  142,  144,  243,  543. 

Greene,  General,  113,  256,  465. 

'•  Greenfield,"  562,  563. 

•'  Greenway,"  173,  227,  386. 

Gregory,  Captain,  179. 

Grey  (Gray).  James,  53. 

(Jriggs,  E.'W.,  471. 

Grigsbv,  Hugh  B.,  143,  210-212,  228, 558, 
560  ;  Rachel,  292. 

Grills,  John,  134,  290. 

Grubbs,  Thomas,  51. 

Grymes  family,  288,  432  ;  Mamie,  MUton, 
453 ;  P.  R..  462  ;  Philip,  79, 84,  125. 

Guilford  C.  H.  (battle).  268. 

Gunpowder.  160,  161,  103. 

Gurley.  Davis  R.,  Mary  A.,  299. 

Guy,  iEleanor,  503. 

Gwatkins,  Lucie,  280. 

Gwin,  John,  Sarah,  299. 

Gwynn's  Island  (battle),  181. 

Habersham  family,  437. 

HaddreU's  Point  (S.  C),  184,  186. 

Hairston  family,  471,  472;  Robert  (emi- 
grant), 471,  548;  Ruth,  548;  Samuel, 
207,  .548. 

Hale,  Elizabeth,  552. 


Halifax  Co.  (Va.),  81,  99,  128,  149,  205, 
279,  324-330,  346,  350,  350,  359-362, 
389,  445,  533,  534. 

Hall,  Edwin  G.,  and  family,  479  ;  Miss, 
553  ;  Rev.  Mr.,  76 ;  Richard,  and  family, 
445  ;  W.  T.,  324. 

Halleck,  General,  509. 

Halsey,  Cabell,  Henry,  277. 

Halstead,  Miss,  304. 

Halsted,  Caleb  0.,  Lucy,  417. 

Hambrick,  Andrew,  .532. 

Hamilton,  Alexander,  445 ;  family  (emi- 
grant), 588,  589 ;  Mrs.,  582. 

Hammond,  Eleanor,  27  ;  family,  465,  4G6  ; 
WiUiam  S.,  314. 

Hampden  Sidney  Academy,  105, 191,  212, 
216,  217,  241,  268,  269;  College,  116, 
216,  217,  227,  243,  250,  251,  263,  267- 

269,  327,  355-:357,  359,  360,  367,  371, 
372,  396,  401,  407,  438,  439,  442,  458, 
469,  528,  558,  559,  562,  593,  597,  601, 
606  ;  Company,  268  ;  Lottery,  107. 

Hanbm-y-Tracy,  A.,  7. 

Hancock,  Ammon,  307 ;  family,  554,  555 ; 

F.  W.,  585. 
Handy  family,  506,  507. 
Hanna,  Maggie,  351. 
Hannah  famUy,  283  ;  Mary  H.,  568. 
Hanover  Co.,  35,  47,  59,  68,  74,  128, 129, 

140,  169,  184,  185,  188,  189,  244,  269, 

270,  273,  278,  284,  321,  339,  380,  381, 
4.54,501,  502,534,  561,  593,  5^9,604; 
C.  H.,  45,  192  ;  Junction  (battle),  586. 

Hanovertown,  380,  561. 

Hansborough,  Samuel,  267,  268. 

Hardiman,  Louisa,  471. 

Harding  (Hardin),  Rev.  Dr.,  370  ;  Bethi- 
nia,  455,  471 ;  Thomas,  4.55. 

Hardware  River,  02,  102,  269. 

Hardy,  Samuel,  114. 

Hare,  Hannah  H.,  263,  597  ;  Mrs.,  156  ; 
Sarah  E.,  263,  597-601 ;  William  B., 
121,  154,  1.56,  202,  258,  260-263,  602 ; 
W.  N.  C,  263. 

»  Harewood,"  156,  258,  261. 

Harget,  Thomas,  151. 

Harmer,  George,  219;  John,  125,  219. 

Harmer's  defeat,  100. 

Harnisch,  Johanna,  544, 

Harper,  Henry,  112. 

Harringtons,  168. 

Harris,  Arthur,  247;  Benjamin,  49,  50, 
53  ;  Henry  C.,518 ;  Isabella,  23  ;  James, 
51,  53 ;  Jane  P.,  300  ;  John,  117  ;  165  ; 
303  ;  Levi  C,  and  family,  312,  313  ; 
Maria  L.,  518  ;  Margaret  E.,  303  ;  Miss, 
300  ;  Robert,  47  ;  Thomas,  165  ;  Wil- 
liam, 49  ;  (L.),396;  Willis,  and  family, 
274. 

Harris  Creek,  51,  158. 

Harrison,  Ann  CabeU,  240,  524, 525  ;  520 ; 
Benjamin  (emigrant),  238,  4.32;  238, 
594;  238;  238;  (signer),  237;  (Presi- 
dent), 238,  345,  386,  517;  510;  161; 
348;  Carter  Henry,  160,  162,  164-166, 


INDEX 


625 


237-239,  476,  583  ;  240,  520-524  ;  454, 
522-524;  famUy,  523,  524;  Charles, 
439 ;  Elizabeth  L.,  240,  525,  526  ;  Han- 
nah, 594  ;  Gessner,  439  ;  Henry,  237  ; 
Ida,  535  ;  John  Jordan,  520  ;  Joseph  Ca- 
bell, 237, 240, 519, 520  ;  Louise  H.,  345 ; 
Lucy,  520  ;  Ludwell,  348  ;  Maria,  Mary 
H.,  520 ;  Mary.  594  ;  Mary  Hopkins,  240, 
516-519;  Matthew  B.,  345  ;  Nathaniel, 
476  ;  594  ;  Pocahontas,  240,  531 ;  Robert 
C,  236-240,  515-531  ;  240,  525,  526 ; 
520  ;  Sarah,  516  ;  (A.),  525,  528;  (R.), 
240,  526 ;  Susan  R.,  520 ;  Susanna  R., 
240,  515  ;  Virginia,  240,  526-531 ;  WU- 
liam,  322  ;  Pres.  W.  H.,  289. 

Harrisonburg  (Va.),  354. 

Hart,  Andrew,  324;  Chenoe,  4.53;  Elea- 
nor, 484 ;  Isabella,  296 ;  J.  Hawkins, 
482;  Lilian,  552;  Mary  S.  E.,  478; 
Nathaniel,  453, 454 ;  502 ;  William,  478, 
484. 

Hartman  family.  277. 

Hartsook  family,  609, 610  ;  Daniel  G.,  272, 
440,  609,  610. 

HartAvell,  Elizabeth,  604  ;  (S.),  314. 

Harvard  University,  327,  404,  405,  415, 
419,  421,  425,  436,  489,  542,  543,  590, 
592,  602. 

Harvey,  John,  273. 

Harvie,  John,  49,  53,  61,  215,  413,  414, 
598;  414. 

Harwell,  Elizabeth  S.,  314. 

Haskins,  Creed,  50 ;  Edward,  165  ;  family, 
371. 

Hatcher,  Frederick,  165. 

Hawes,  Catherine,  539. 

Hawkes,  Rev.  Mr.,  577. 

Hawkins,  John,  179,  219  ;  Thomas,  111. 

Hay,  Grace,  300. 

Hayes,  Mrs.  Rutherford  B.,  510. 

Hays,  Susan,  553. 

Hay  ward,  Mary,  412. 

Heath,  James  E.,  Maria,  427. 

Heifer,  David,  148. 

Henderson,  Bennett,  290  ;  Elizabeth,  287, 
290;  435;  582;  Fanny,  2S:i6;  Frances, 
290 ;  James  {emigrant),4'2(^,  435 ;  James, 
Peter,  435;  John,  290;  (B.),  517  ;  Miss, 
557;  Pauline  R.,  435,  436;  Richard, 
296,  454 ;  Samuel,  296 ;  Susan,  William, 
290. 

Henderson,  McCauI  &  Co.,  91. 

Henderson  Co.  (Ky.),  229,  231,  453,  454, 
477-486,  492. 

Hendren,  John,  317,  388,  396. 

Hendrick,  Thomas,  554. 

Hendricks,  James,  179. 

Hening  family,  451. 

Henrico  Co.,  34-36,  68,  70,  157,  169,  228, 
239,  245,  246,  271,  272,  317,  322,  378, 
388,  455,  .561,  .583 ;  Parish,  35,  246,  561. 

Henry  I.,  5;  VIIL,  12,  231  ;  Prince  of 
Wales,  34. 

Henry,  Alexander  Spotswood,  and  family, 
531,  532 ;  Elizabeth,  188,  501 ;  Elvira, 


261,  324-339;  James,  250;  Jane,  380; 
John  (emigrant),  189,  294,  324,  325; 
John,  and  famUy,  342-345 ;  Joseph,  589 ; 
Lucy,  294,  383 ;  Nannie,  468 ;  Patrick 
(the  orator),  72,  82,  83,  93,  97,  104, 106, 
118,  161,  181,  185,  189,  202,  234,  241, 
270,  294,  305,  324,  325,  330,  340,  342, 
346,  369,  380-382,  501,  531 ;  (Jr.),  202, 
258,  259,  261 ;  family,  324-339  ;  Tho- 
mas S.,  and  family,  343,  345  ;  William 
Wirt,  96,  242,  325,  343;  famHy,  344, 
345. 

Henry  Co.  (Mo.),  374;  (Va.),  252,  449, 
471. 

Herndon,  Ann  E.,  484;  Margaret,  483; 
Susan  M.,  528. 

Hewitt,  John,  289 ;  Louisa,  455. 

Hiam,  Caroline  E.,  320. 

Hicklin,  Sarah  A.,  524. 

Hickman,  Edwin,  48,  49,  504,  505 ;  Rich- 
ard, 505. 

Higginbotham,  Aaron,  80 ;  Mrs.  Coleman 
C,  318,  433  ;  family,  317,  318  ;  James, 
87,  105,  198  ;  Jessie,  343  ;  Samuel,  150 ; 
Thomas,  222, 

Higgins,  Mr.,  604. 

Highland  Co.  (Va.),  314, 

Hill,  D,  H.,  393 ;  EUzabeth,  293 ;  440 ; 
Mary,  207,  208 ;  Miss,  289 ;  Rowland, 
26  ;  William  (emigrant),  208. 

Hinds,  Thomas,  307,  312. 

Hinsdale,  Rev.  Dr.,  595, 

Hinton,  Sarah,  William,  588, 

Hite,  Sarah,  504. 

Hobson,  Alice,  Henry,  446 ;  Nicholas,  179. 

Hodnett,  John,  38. 

Hoge,  Moses,  469, 560 ;  (Dr.),  316,  572. 

Hogg,  Peter,  61. 

Holcombe  and  Jones  (school),  384, 

HoUaday,  Emily,  James,  316, 

HoUand,  271,  272,  350,  383, 

Hollywood  Cemetery,  333,  569,  572,  586. 

Holman,  James,  37,  38. 

Holmes,  John,  216. 

Hood,  John,  53. 

Hooe,  Daniel,  John,  Robert,  458. 

Hoofnagle,  James  H.,  606. 

Hook,  John,  270,  290,  369. 

Hooks  family,  609. 

Hooper,  Elizabeth,  21,  23, 45  ;  George,  18, 
20,  21 ;  Hugh,  21 ;  Joan,  22  ;  John,  21 ; 
Joseph  (emigrant),  21,  34  ;  Rachel,  21 ; 
20,  21 ;  Susannah,  22  ;  T.  W.,  324. 

Hooper's  Rock,  157. 

Hopkins,  Anna,  276  ;  545  ;  Arthur,  38,  39, 
52,  132,  140-142,  352  ;  family,  140-142 
James,  100,  140;  John,  131,  140,  352 
276;  Mary,   131,  132,   140,   141;  352 
Samuel,  141,  179,  479. 

Horner,  Dora,  345. 

Horsbrough,  Mrs.,  435. 

Horses,  etc.,  62,  76,  86,  87,  151,  155,  199, 
217,  228. 

Horsley,  Elizabeth,  75,  174,  282  (see 
McCulloch);    173;   176;    Fanny,    74; 


626 


INDEX 


Hector,  176 ;  Jane,  176,  300  ;  John,  62, 
75,  175,  176;  173,  244;  family,  277- 
281;  176;  descendants,  301-304;  Jo- 
seph, 173 ;  Judith,  173  ;  Martha,  173  ; 
Mary  Cabell,  61,72-75;  her  children, 
172-176 ;  her  branch,  274-304 ;  173,  275 ; 
Nicholas,  173  ;  Robert,  75  ;  74 ;  02,  75, 
149,  173,  175;  173,  276;  Roland,  74; 
Samuel  C,  173,  276;  family,  277; 
William,  61,  75, 100, 154,  172,  173, 227 ; 
descendants,  274-281;  74;  173,  fam- 
ily, 274,  275  ;  William  A.,  and  family, 
278,  279. 

Horsmanden,  Daniel,  Mary,  Warham 
(emigrant) ,  411. 

House,  Mary,  564. 

Houston,  Samuel,  217. 

Howard,  AUen,  37,  :38,  48,  62 ;  Ben  C, 
399 ;  Emma  L.,  330  ;  estate,  234  ;  fam- 
ily, 306,  336 ;  John,  61 ;  183  ;  (E.),  399 ; 
Miss,  566 ;  Matthew  (emigrant),  336 ; 
Mrs.,  234. 

Howardsville,  40,  234,  606,  610. 

Howe,  Sir  W.,  416. 

Howell,  Martha  A.,  517 ;  Mary,  370 ;  Mil- 
dred, 534. 

Howlett,  Miss,  380. 

Howson,  Phoebe,  327. 

Hubard  family,  368. 

Hudson,  Charles,  599 ;  Miss,  276. 

Huggatt,  Anthony,  38. 

Hughes,  Bishop,  497 ;  family,  308,  309 ; 
James,  132  ;  Miss,  54. 

Hughes'  Island,  243. 

Huguenots,  67,  129,  145,  271,  296,  373, 
416,  425,  474,  515,  529,  537. 

Humes  family,  350. 

Hmnphrey,  E.  P.,  233,  497,  501,  511. 

Hundley  family,  534, 

Hunsdon,  Lord,  447. 

Hunt,  A.  D.,  456,  512  ;  family,  527  ;  Kate, 
512. 

Hunter,  Amelia,  554 ;  family,  436,  437 ; 
John,  38,  49,  75,  76,  129;  Mrs.,  292; 
Sarah  J.,  Thomas,  Velita  E.,  538. 

Huntley,  Earl  of,  215. 

"  Huntley,"  213 ;  446. 

Hurxthall,  Benjamin,  537  ;  Fannie,  Fer- 
dinand, 538. 

Hutcheson  family,  320. 

Hutchins,  Thomas,  179. 

Hutchinson,  Rev.  Mr.,  316. 

Huxter,  Joseph  F.,  Sr.  and  Jr.,  315. 

Idaho,  386. 

Illinois,  125.  393,  440,  467,  499,  513,  522, 

530,  .531, 541,  582. 
Indenture,  56. 

Independence,  67, 95, 166,  180,  181. 
India  (or  East  India,  etc.),  24-27,  34,  435- 

437,  516. 
Indiana,  277,  457,  524. 
Indian  Camp  Creek,  87. 
Indians,  39,  40,  42-44,  53,  66-68,  78,  151, 

157,  229,  230,  232,  240,  242,  257,  290, 


295,  296,  304,  453,  454,  456,  403,  474, 

475,  503,  598,  599. 
Indian  Wars,  58,  67,  70,   76-78,  81,  98, 

100,  135,  136,  144,  151,  182,  235,  237, 

244,  295,  349,  366,  367,  380,  381,  387, 

413,  454,  488,  503,  549,  575,  581,  588, 

589,  590,  594,  599. 
Ingles,  William,  13-5. 
"  Ingleside,"  477  ;  558,  559, 562-564,  567, 

592. 
•'  Inglewood,"  318,  320,  323. 
Ingraham,  Isaac,  Sarah,  553. 
Ingram,  Mr.,  467. 
Innes,  Hary,  366,  505  ;  Robert  (emigrant), 

505. 
Iowa,  493,  516. 
Irby,  Mary  E.,  477. 
Ireland,  67,  236,  257,  271,  296,  322,  336, 

341,  369,  398,  453,  456,  490,  502,  516, 

534,  548,  549,  566,  584,  593,  594,  598, 

599. 
Iron  works,  62,  63, 102-104,  286,  366. 
Irvine,  Charlotte,  320  ;  Christopher,  270  ; 

Edward,  453  ;  emigrants,  369  ;  family, 

369-376  ;    J.  B.,  557 ;   Mary   B.,  384  ; 

William,  369,  384. 
Irving,  Charles    (emigrant),  01,    96,    193, 

533  ;     James,   92  ;     533  ;    Robert,    91  ; 

Washington,  92,  278,  533. 
Isham,  Catherine,  Henry,  Mary,  239. 
Isle  of  Wight  (E.),  69,  592 ;   (Va.),  315, 

387. 
Israel,  Mary,  393. 
Italy,  540. 

Jack,  George,  50. 

Jackman,  Colonel,  298. 

Jackson,  Dr.,  389;  Andrew,  275,  306, 
307,408,  442,  456,465,  588;  Claiborne 
F.,  578,  579 ;  Ellen,  456,  513 ;  family, 
456-458;  George  M.,  456,  457,  513; 
James  (emigrant),  456;  456,  457,475, 
513;  "Stonewall,"  283,358,  361,  393; 
William  M.,  513, 

Jacob  family,  331. 

Jamaica,  213. 

James  I.  of  Scotland,  216  ;  of  England,  16, 
33  ;  Earl  of  Angus,  216. 

James,  Richard,  161,  163,  165. 

James  City  Co.   (Va.),  189,  270,306,  541. 

James  River,  32,  35,  67,  (^8.  etc. ;  Bank 
money,  89;  Canal  Co..  92;  Company, 
116,  117,  199;  and  Kanawha  Canal, 
264,  347,  469,  575,  585,  586. 

Jamestown,  33, 129^  149,  1U6,  198,  260. 

Jarratt,  Devereux,  50. 

Jefferson,  Ann  Scott,  387  ;  Eldiidge,  275 
Field,  305 ;  Miss  Howard,  305  ;  John 
605 ;  Mary  Field,  388 ;  Mary  F.,  605 
Mr.  (emigrant),  388 ;  Peter,  38,  48,  52, 
53,  77,  215,  239,  246, 305,  387,  413,  504 
Peter  Field,  305;  Randolph,_^  387 
Sarah,  275  ;  Thomas,  obS  ;  03,  72,  86 
93,  95,  97,  109,  114,  123,  143,  145,  148, 
152,  159,  183,  187,  189,  193,  220,  2*5 


INDEX 


627 


239,  246,  250,  264-266,  286,  305,  341, 
381,  387,  407,  411,  414,  583. 

Jefferson  City  (Mo.),  578,  581 ;  County 
(Fla.),  258,  575 ;  (Ky.),  452,  4-54,  504  ; 
(Miss.),  306 ;  (N.  Y.),  353 ;  (W.  Va.), 
429. 

Jefferson  College,  500,  528 ;  Medical  Col- 
lege, 811. 

Jeffreys,  Judge,  169. 

Jenings,  Edmund  {emigrant),  Priscilla,  208. 

Jenkins,  Eustatia,  292 ;  Maria,  584. 

Jerraan,  Dr.,  289. 

Jerrard,  J.  Thugar,  and  family,  28. 

Jeter,  Mr.,  209,  216. 

Jett,  Mary,  535. 

Joanna,  Princess,  216. 

"  Job's  Valley,"  213. 

Johns,  Bishop,  559,  561,  585 ;  Hobson, 
293. 

Johns  Hopkins  University,  405. 

Johnson,  Adamantine,  and  family,  468 ; 
Benjamin,  321 ;  Anne  W.  D.,  506  ;  Chap- 
man, 222 ;  Christopher,  71  ;  Edward,  102, 
136  ;  EUzabeth,  288 ;  G.  N.,  253 ;  James, 
179 ;  John,  138  ;  Leake,  and  family,  348; 
Mr.,  93 ;  Porter,  and  family,  348  ;  Rich- 
ard, 47  ;  R.  W.,  495 ;  SaUie  F.,  495  ;  R. 
M.,  502. 

Johnson's  Island,  297,  310,  383,  384,  474, 
566. 

Johnston,  Albert  Sidney,  493 ;  Christo- 
pher, 450  ;  DeUie,  552  ;  John,  190 ;  Jo- 
seph E.,  456,  473,  494 ;  Mary  A.,  450  ; 
Robert,  87. 

Jonas,  Archibald,  Edward,  483. 

Jones,  Alexander,  254,  574 ;  Allen,  132  ; 
Ben,  462;  Bartlett,  532;  Cabell  H., 
532 ;  Caroline  S.,  2S7  ;  Elizabeth,  25 ; 
464;  (B.),  144;  (P.),  481;  H.  E.,  and 
family,  430 ;  Horace  W.,  428 ;  John,  179; 
Joseph  E.,  and  family,  307-312  ;  Judith, 
126  ;  Lafayette,  481 ;  Lncy,  544  ;  Mary 
B.,  481 ;  Orlando,  355 ;  Peter,  544 ;  Pow- 
hatan, 608 ;  Sarah  E.,  008 ;  Stephen,  513. 

Jopling,  Thomas,  92, 109, 185. 

Jordan,  Caroline  M.,  144, 197, 214  ;  family, 
322  ;  Margaret,  77,  78,  202  ;  Mary,  321, 
322,  3S5 ;  Matthew,  49,  91,  322,  387, 
533 ;  Mildred,  91,  533 ;  Paulina,  144 ; 
Samuel  {emigrant),  128,  322  ;  49,  50,  77, 
78,  104, 127-129,  130, 142, 144,  214,  252, 
259,  322,  387,  533 ;  Sarah,  387 ;  Wilhel- 
mina,  144,  259. 

Jortin,  Ren^,  Rev.  Dr.,  129. 

Jourdan,  Soloman  {emigrant),  129. 

Jouett,  Captain  John,  201. 

Jumi^ges.  William  de,  5. 

Junkin,  William  F.,  297. 

Justices,  37,  38,  47-50,  61,  79,  82,  etc. 

Kan^,  346,  383,  428,  429,  466,  520. 

Kay,  Rev.  William.  205. 

Kean,  Andrew,  236  ;  Caroline,  John,  417  ; 

John  v.,  R.  G.  H.,  236. 
Keim,  Rebecca,  541. 


Keith,  Charles  P.,  238,  294,  393. 

KeUer  family,  291 ;  Mary  M.,  603. 

Kennon,  Elizabeth,  73;  604;  Mary,  229, 
605 ;  Richard,  229 ;  Robert,  604. 

Kentucky,  42-44,  54,  59,67,  136, 141,  144, 
199,  228,  229,  231-237,  240,  248,  268, 
287-292,  295,  296,  298,  351,  359,  366, 
367,  370,  377,  381,  406,413,  420,  452- 
455  ;  459-462,  464-466,  469,  477-498, 
500-531,  549,  550-557,  577,  581,  582, 
599,  600,  607. 

Kenyon  College  (0.),  404,  529. 

Key,  Captain,  87. 

Key's  Church,  62,  178 ;  Gap,  193,  365 ; 
Ordinary,  61. 

Kidder,  Richard,  Susanna,  231,  432. 

Kidson,  W.  A.,  328. 

Kikendall,  John  S.,  465. 

Kinckle,  William  H.,  .343,  385,  394 

King,  David,  and  family,  418  ;  Joseph  and 
family,  466,  467;  Rufus  and  family, 
402-404  ;  Walter,  125,  219. 

King  and  Queen  Co.,  208,  260,  285,  288, 
337,  386,  412,  4:34,  462,  504. 

King  George  Co.,  294. 

King  William  Co.,  337,  369,  382,  590  ; 
Parish   129. 

King's  College  (E.),  169  ;  (N.  Y.).  415. 

King's  Ford,  59  ;  Mountain  (battle),  188. 

Kinkead  family,  503, 504. 

Kirby,  Mary,  541. 

Kirk,  Henry,  437 ;  S.  S.,  400. 

Kirkland,  Archibald,  Augusta,  306. 

Klrkman,  Elizabeth,  378 ;  James,  513. 

Kirkpatrick,  J.  M.,  477. 

Knapp,  Charles  W.,  Genevieve,  291. 

Knowles,  Bethaniah,  John,  455. 

Knox,  John,  490. 

Krupp,  Herr,  26. 

Kyle  family,  527. 

Lackey  family,  550. 

Lacv  family,  374. 

Ladd,  William,  68. 

Lafayette,  Marquis,  112, 153, 193-198,  340, 
341,  398. 

Lafayette  College,  505,  592. 

Laidlev,  Joseph,  322. 

Lake,  John  B.,  374. 

Lambert  family,  528 ;  Frances,  423 ; 
George,  249. 

Lament,  Mr.,  138. 

Lancaster  (Ky.),  .5.50;  (Pa,),  182,  349, 
598;  (Va.),  31,  266,  594 

Lancaster  family,  562,  564. 

Land:  entries,  etc.,  40,  41,  46,  51,  53, 
54,  57,  171,  etc. ;  grants,  patents,  etc., 
42,  54,  55,  59,  61,  80,  81,  121 ;  head- 
rights,  57 ;  quit-rents,  42,  46,  81 ; 
rent,  59. 

Landrum,  Young,  109,  112,  151. 

"  LaneviUe,"  263,  604. 

Langhome,  Maurice,  165  ;  314 ;  365. 

Lanier,  Jane  B.,  475. 

Lansdale,  Isaac,  526. 


628 


INDEX 


Larkin,  Miss,  402. 

'■  La  Roche,"  Susanna,  271. 

Lash,  P.  H.,  472. 

Latham,  Mary,  432. 

Lawson,  General,  196 ;  Fanny  H.,  G.  R., 
29. 

Lawton  family,  315. 

Layne,  Annie,  531. 

Leach,  T.  H.  C,  358. 

Leckie  family,  284. 

Ledyard  faixuly,  422. 

Lee,  Abraham  B.,  and  family,  550 ;  Am- 
brose, 61  ;  Charles,  103,  377 ;  Daniel, 
318;  Elizabeth  S.,  318;  George,  and 
family,  331 ;  George  K.,  318 ;  John  L., 
387  ;  Richard  H.,  161 ;  Robert  E.,  359, 
494,  529. 

Leech,  Houston,  354. 

Leftwich,  Joel,  469;  Mary  O.,  Mildred, 
352. 

"Le  Grand"  (Aunt),  209,  212,  227,  559; 
EUzabeth  A.,  537 ;  Nash,  209-212 ;  Peter, 
212. 

Lehigh  University,  386. 

Leigh  famUy,  567  ;  Judge,  393. 

Leighton  family,  516,  517. 

Leipsic  University,  503,  590. 

Le  Seur,  David,  37. 

Le  Sueur,  Charles  H.,  481. 

Leslie's  invasion,  109, 152,  192. 

Letcher,  Elizabeth,  471  ;  Governor  of  Ken- 
tucky, 494  ;  Governor  of  Virginia,  580. 

Levy  (County),  371. 

Lewis,  Agatha,  240,  402 ;  296 ;  Andrew 
296 ;  32,  136,  179-181,  296  ;  Ann,  370 
387  ;  242  ;  Archibald  L.,  476  ;  Benja 
min  H.,  476;  Charles,  136;  370;  515 
148,  149;  49,  239,  387;  David,  49 
Elizabeth,  270 ;  140,  141,  240,  241,  469 
family,  60;  241 ;  370  ;  George  C,  476 
Hawkins,  557;  Hugh,  270;  Jane,  372 
John  (emigrant),  241,  296;  107;  370 
557  ;  L.  H.,  476 ;  Mary,  349 ;  370  ;  302 
Mildred,  370 ;  Meriwether,  370,  372 
370  ;  Miss,  212 ;  Mrs.,  176  ;  Nannie,  .535 
Nicholas,  63  ;  Robert,  47,  370 ;  370 
Sarah,  536 ;  Sophronia  H.,  557 ;  Wil- 
liam, 114  ;  241,  402 ;  370  ;  (J.),  240, 241, 
526  ;  Zachary  R.,  302,  349, 

Lewisburg  (W.  Va.),  535. 

Lexington  (battle),  107,  162  ;  (Ky.),  2.32, 
233,  235,  289,  291,  490-497,  .50(K530, 
581;  CoUege,  520;  (Mo.),  298;  (Va.), 
291,  292,  298,  849,  350,  354,  356,  364, 
375,  593,  600,  606;  (Law  School),  571 ; 
Parish,  107,  116,  174,  214,  293,  379, 384, 
385. 

"Liberty  Hall,"  63,  145,  147,  156,  227, 
251,  260,  267,  268,  272,  546,  602-605. 

Liberty  Hall  Academy  (see  Washington 
Academy),  350. 

Licking-Hole  Creek,  36, 47, 59, 66,  75, 130, 
194. 

Lightfoot,  Mildred,  William,  534. 

Lilbume,  John,  William,  239. 


Lillington  family,  588. 

Lincohi,  Abraham,  70,  310,  360,  379,  499, 
502. 

Linton,  Susanna,  452. 

Little  family,  309. 

Littlepage,  James,  325. 

Little  Roanoke  River,  205,  207,  209,  558. 

Little  Rock  (Ark.),  441,  536. 

Littleton  Parish,  272. 

Lloyd  family,  26,  27. 

Lobban,  Captain,  395. 

Lockhart  family,  416,  417. 

Loftus,  Adam,  599. 

Logan,  Jane,  513  ;  514 ;  Sallie,  541 ;  Wil- 
liam, 513. 

Logwood,  Kitty,  352. 

Lomax,  Judge,  562  ;  General,  606 ;  Luns- 
ford,  53,  79,  84,  125,  200. 

London  (E.),  2,  11,  15,  24,  26,  28,  33,  68, 
129,  220,  221,  238,  271,  303,  .337,  376, 
397,  415,  425,  475,  481,  483,  487,  577; 
Bishop  of,  286. 

Londonderry  (I.),  257,  490,  516,  599. 

Long,  Lucy,  S.  H.,  513 ;  Samuel  S.,  and 
family,  519;  William  S.,  and  family, 
499. 

Longdon,  John,  47. 

Longsdon,  Alfred,  26. 

Longstreet,  General,  275. 

Longworth  family,  404-406. 

Lome,  Marquis  of,  191. 

Lorraine  family,  316. 

Lotteries,  107,  133,  152,  154. 

Lottier,  John  D.,  573. 

Loudoun  Co.,  319,  320,  531. 

Loughborough  family,  348. 

Louis  XIV.,  271,  373. 

Louisa,  Princess,  47. 

Louisa  Co.,  37,  47,  48,  59,  60,  69,  81,  93, 
169,  189,  269,  270,  290,  301,  321,  370, 
412-414,  .561,  .592  ;  C.  H.,  193. 

Louise,  Princess,  191. 

Louisiana,  298,  313,  331,  337,  465,  479, 
496,  523,  524  ;  Medical  College,  309. 

Louisville  (Ky.),  43,  233,  240,  2.S9,  298, 
332,  420,  423,  478,  481,  482,  492,  493, 
511-514, 518,  529, 556, 600 ;  Law  School, 
517,  529  ;  Medical  College,  308. 

Love,  AUen,  Susan  A.,  361. 

Lovejoy,  Mr.,  582. 

Loving,  Emma.  536;  John,  111,  112, 197; 
(H.),  606 ;  Mary  E ,  606 ;  William,  87, 
110,  111. 

Lovingston,  385,  426,  606. 

Lowry,  Grant,  552. 

Loyal  (The)  Company,  412. 

Ludlow,  Cornelius,  510;  Gabriel  (emi- 
grant), 294,  432  ;  Sarah,  294. 

Ludwell  (emigrant),  432  ;  Lucy,  432. 

Lumpkin,  Elizabeth,  504. 

Lunenburg  Co.,  58,  149,  196,  205,  207, 
295,  .373,  471,  477. 

Lurav,  350,  537. 

Lyle,  Esther,  300 ;  Matthew,  314 ;  (School), 
'364. 


INDEX 


629 


Lynch,  Charles  {emigrant),  38,  48,  49,  51, 
69,  71,  189,  321;  71,  367;  John,  70; 
Sarah,  69 ;  71. 

Lynch's  Creek,  69 ;  Ferry,  69 ;  Law,  71, 
367 ;  River,  69. 

Lynchburg,  35,  51,  54,  70,  145, 158,  213, 
214,  216,  221,  229,  2.36,  240-246,  258- 
260,  275,  283,  284,  286-288,  303,  307, 
314,  316-318,  320,  321,  323,  324,  339, 
840,  343,  3.52,  365,  366,  374,  376,  379, 
382,384-386,  388,  39.3-397,  400,  401, 
428,  434,  437,  438,  441,  442,  515,  532, 
535,  .540,  541,  543.  544,  .546,  548,  557,  i 
565,  602 ;  CoUege.  317,  323,  428 ;  Fe- 
male Seminary,  428. 

Lyndsay  family,  538. 

Lyons  family,  344,  345. 

McBane,  Dan,  87. 

McBride,  John,  37. 

McCaleb,  Lucy,  W.  C,  314;  313. 

McCarton,  Ann,  Thomas,  584. 

McCaw,  Dr.,  376. 

McClain  famUy,  481,  482. 

MeClanahan,  Agatha,  296 ;  Alexander, 
148  ;  Elijah,  296  ;  Elizabeth  M.,  295. 

McClelland,  McClellan,  etc.,  341;  Ed- 
mond  T.,  vii,  353;  family,  339-3.54; 
James  Bruce,  342,  351,  426 ;  Mary 
Greenway,  144, 346  ;  Mrs.,  338  ;  Thomas 
(emigrant),  341 ;  Thomas  S.,  339-342, 
3.54,  360,  396. 

Macclesfield,  Earl  of,  18. 

McClung,  Mary  (emigrant),  599. 

MeComb,  General,  488. 

McCorkle  famUy,  292,  297. 

McCorraack  family,  550. 

McCoy,  Mary,  300. 

MoCraw,  Martha,  448. 

McCreery,  Mar2;'aret,  Thomas,  483. 

McCuUoch,  Belinda,  175;  Ben,  378; 
Champe  Carter,  and  family,  294,  298- 
300;  [David  (emigrant),  175.  This 
should  read,  ''  son  of  Rev.  Roderick 
(said  to  be  son  of  David)  McCulloch, 
of  Scotland"];  175,  285;  Elizabeth, 
Frances,  175,  288 ;  Isabella,  175,  291, 
294  ;  Mary,  175,  282  ;  Nancy  E.,  175  ; 
292 ;  Robert  H.,  175  ;  Roderick,  175 ; 
[Rev.  Roderick,  175] ;  Roderick,  61, 
92, 100,  154;  family,  174-176  ;  descend- 
ants, 282-300;  Samuel,  378,  456; 
William  H.,  175  ;  family,  293-300. 

McDaniel,  Mrs.  Claire,  466. 

McDowell,  Ephraira  (emigrant),  599; 
James,  292 ;  John,  599 ;  Magdalen, 
598 ;  Samuel,  114,  135,  148,  598,  599 ; 
General,  509. 

McElroy  family,  553,  554. 

Macfarland,  Mr.,  253. 

McGee,  William,  316. 

MeGnire,  Hugh,  Hunter,  Mary,  391. 

McKendrick  family,  486. 

McKensie's  School,  427,  428. 

McKnight  family,  514. 


McLennan  Co.  (Tex.),  299. 

Macmurdo,  Charles  J.  (emigrant),  James, 

Sarah  C,  423. 
McNair,  Alexander,  80. 
McNutt,    Alexander,    Janetta,     Rachel, 

292 ;  John,  293. 
Macon,  Cora  Lee,  300  ;  Henry,  I  ''1 .  165  ; 

Lucy,  377. 
Macrae,  Christopher,  168. 
McReynolds,  Mary,  492. 
Machumps  (Indian),  68. 
Machumps  Creek,  68,  69. 
Machunk  Creek,  68. 
Madison,   Bishop,  145 ;  James,   117,  214, 

264,   409,   420,   487;  Miss,  214;   296; 

Mrs.,  68.  582 ;  Thomas,  61. 
Madison   Co.    (Ky.),  288,  289,  295,-556; 

(Miss.),  506  ;  (Va.),  549;  (town),  365. 
Magruder,  General,  315,  586. 
Mahone,  General,  356. 
Maine,  31. 
Maltby,  Anson,  495. 

"Malvern  HUl,"  378;  (battle),  31.5,  .580. 
Manassas  (battle),  283,  297,  309,  351,445, 

456,  473. 
Manchester,  85,  280,  285. 
Manikin  Town  (see  Monaean),  276. 
Mansfield,  Lawrence,  276. 
Manson,    Addisonia,     Nathaniel,     Peter, 

368 ;  Mattie  W.,  Nathaniel  C,  378. 
Maps,  169,  170. 
"Mark Twain,"  .352. 
Marr,  Gideon,  47,  49. 
Marriage  bond,  131. 
Marshall,    Claudia,    332 ;    family,    565 ; 

Humphrey,  518,  524 ;  John,  347,  521 ; 

Julia   Symes,   515 ;  Lewis,   521 ;   Lucy 

Gray,  344  ;  Virginia,  482. 
Martin,  Azariah,  152  ;  Henry,  109 ;  John, 

and  family,  563  ;   NIayo  C,  7,  392,  394, 

451  ;    Miles    Macon,  and  family,   563  ; 

Thomas  F.,  265  ;   family,  392-395. 
Martyn,  Nicholas,  14,  15. 
Mary  (Queen),  12. 
Maryland,  4S,  70,  82,  162,  182,   277,  3.36, 

337,  380,  386,  398,  402,  430,  452,  480, 

491,  492,  497,  499,  502,  503,  505-507, 

509,  515,  516,  524,  537,  545, 584. 
Mason,    David,    86 ;    George,    104 ;    John 

Thompson,  191  ;  Jonathan,  Miriam  C, 

421;  Miss,  .531. 
Masons  (Freemasons,  Grand  Lodge,  etc), 

152-1.55,  259,  297,  400,  401,  426,  569, 

590. 
Massachusetts,  14,  98,  162,  163,  284,  418, 

420,  421,  425,  4.54,  488,  505,  543,  548, 

.590,  591,  602. 
Massie  (emigrant),  .377;  family,  376-379, 

427;  Captain  Thomas.  179,  377;  Dr., 

.376-378,    3115;    Major    Thomas,  279, 

.376,  377  ;  William,  279. 
Matoaka  (see  Pocahontas),  230. 
Matthew,  George,  135,  148;  James,  111  ; 

Mr.,  25 ;  Sampson,  135  ;  Samuel,  148. 
Maury,  James,  72,  145,  146,  190. 


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INDEX 


May  family,  259. 

Mayo,  Abby,  601  ;  Anne,  169-171,  601 
157,  158,  272;  Charles  H.,  2,  9,  20 
Elizabeth,  45;  59;  Joseph,  21,  23 
23 ;  {emigrant),  21,  34,  45,  157 ;  (H.) 
601 ;  John,  161,  163,  165,  166,  601 
298,  397  ;  Julia,  397  ;  Mary,  158  ;  Miss, 
23;  Philip,  158;  William,  23;  259 
601 ;  (emigrant),  21,  34,  37^1,  45,  52 
157,  158,  168-171.  207,  246,  249,  540, 
601. 

Mayo's  Creek,  170  ;  River,  169. 

Meade,  Andrew  (emigrant),  432  ;  Anne, 
230,  231  ;  David,  231,  432  ;  Francis  Key, 
and  family,  368,  369  ;  P.  N ,  506  ;  R.  K., 
and  family,  430-433  ;  Bishop  WiUiam, 
68,  154,  168,  271,  368,  431,  432,  561. 

"  Meadow  Brook,"  54;l 

"Meadows"  (battle),  32,  77,  88. 

Mecklenburg  (N.  C),  declaration,  95, 163. 

Mecklenburg  Co.  (Va.),  205,355-357,375, 
535,  544,  546. 

Medical  CoUege  (Bait.),  369 ;  (0.),  405, 
406. 

Meem  (Mim),  Ben,  46. 

Megginson,  Archibald  B.,  300,  447,  448, 
Elizabeth  (CabeU),  227,  240,  446-452  ; 
Frances  D.,  276,  448 ;  Jane  R.,  447,  450, 
607 ;  Joseph  C,  and  family,  227,  440- 
452 ;  397,  447-449 ;  Martha,  172,  173, 
227  ;  WUliam,  227  ;  38,  45,  49,  53,  76, 
134,  172,  173. 

Meigs,  General,  422. 

Mercantile  Association,  8.5  ;  88, 20.5. 

Mercer,  General,  181. 

Meredith,  Benjamin  C,  and  family,  455, 
459 ;  Edward  M.,  455  ;  Elisha,  and  fam- 
ily, 454-462 ;  Francis  D.,  and  family, 
455,  459 ;  James,  49 ;  Jane  Henry, 
380  ;  John  A.,  332  ;  John  T.,  and  fam- 
ily, 455,  458,  459 ;  Joseph  C,  455,  459 ; 
Judge,  393;  Margaret,  61,  62,  381; 
Mary  A.,  455,  460 ;  Pocahontas  R.  B., 
4.55;  Ruth,  77,129;  Samuel,  Sr.,  61, 
129,  381,  4-54,  4.55;  (Col.),  139,  154, 
380 ;  William  J.,  and  family,  455,  461 ; 
Wyndham  R.,  332  ;  Virginia,  455,  461. 

Meriwether,  Francis,  61,  87,  101  ;  Jane, 
370;  Mary,  236;  Mildred,  188,  189, 
412;  Nicholas  (emigrant),  189;  189, 
321,  370;  189 ;  Thomas,  47  ;  WUUam, 
189. 

Merrett,  Mrs.,  372. 

Merritt,  Isabella,  W.  H.  E.,  441. 

Mexican  War,  275,  318,  353,  383,  488, 
493,  518,  524,  576. 

Mexico,  356,  437,  460,  475,  580. 

Miami  University,  505. 

Micheaux  (Michaux),  Abraham  (emi- 
grant), 271 ;  Anne,  271,  281 ;  Jacob, 
37  ;  Jane,  373. 

Middlesex  Co.,  31,  40-3. 

Middleton,  Anna,  John,  568. 

"Midway,"  80,  147,  170,  202,  227,  228, 
250,  252,  253,  258,  585. 


Militia  of  Amlierst:  ofiacers,  etc.,  38,  61, 
77,  78,  109,  112,  152,153.     See  Rifle- 
men. 
Millender,  W.  G.,  313. 

Miller  (emigrant),  346;  Clayton,  553, 
554 ;  George  M.  Y.,  and  family,  ;M6, 
347  ;  Louise,  337 ;  Mr.,  436 ,  609 ;  Mar- 
garet, 498  ;  Samuel  S.,  498  ;  Thomas, 
61 ;  165  ;  William  A.,  and  family,  343  ; 
William  H.,  and  family,  492. 

Mill  Springs  (battle),  509. 

Mills  family,  302. 

Milton  (Albemarle),  221,  364;  (N.  C), 
370-372. 

Minge,  James  (emigrant),  226. 

Minnesota,  320,  345,  507. 

Minute-men,  99,  147-149,  380. 

Minor,  Launeelott,  Sarah,  292. 

Minor's  school,  391,  393,  570. 

Mississippi,  304-314,  399,  439,  455,  4-58, 
459,  461,  491,  .506,  511,  554,  577,  597, 
609  ;  River,  80,  305,  308,  473,  474,  580. 

Missouri,  80,  175,  288-291,  294-299,  352, 
3.53,  356,  374,  396,  399,  400,  445,  460, 
462-469,  473,  486,  491,  492,  499,  502, 
505,  511,  514-518,  524,  525,  527-531, 
552-554,  577-584,  607,  608. 

Mitcham  family,  284. 

Mitchell,  Emmett,  555;  Eunice,  554; 
Jacob,  372  ;  WUliam,  102. 

Monacan  (Manikin)  Indians,  39,  40. 

Monanaeah  (Manikin),  67. 

Money,  Douglass  Walter,  and  family,  29. 

Monmouth  (battle),  183,  256. 

Monroe  (emigrant),  452,  464 ;  Andrew, 
452,  464  ;  George,  325  ;  Harriet  F.,  462, 
464  ;  James,  250,  264, 452,  464  ;  Joseph 
Jones,  Spence,  464. 

Monroe  Co.,  247,  267,  550,  552,  554. 

Monson,  Philip  S.,  47. 

Montana,  349,  607. 

"Montevideo,"  228,  253,  257,  558,  585, 
597. 

"  Montezuma,"  213,  216,  339-341,  350- 
352,  360,  368,  388,  389,  397. 

Montgomerie,  Hugh  (emigrant),  Jean, 
303. 

Montgomery,  Almira,  449  ;  Anne,  402 ; 
Archibald,  471;  Joseph,  449;  Mrs., 
248  ;  Rev.  Mr.,  361. 

Montgomery  (Ala.),  313,333,  457,  578. 

"  Monticello,"  340,  343,  504. 

Montreal  (Can.),  445  ;  (Va.),  125,  227. 

Moon  famUy,  451,  452. 

Mooney,  a  painter,  151. 

Moore,  A.,  and  family,  392  ;  Bernard,  61  ; 
Fanny,  423 ;  Harry,  .595 ;  George, 
Henry,  456 ;  James  (emigrant),  424, 456, 
457 ;  John  (emigrant),  423,  456 ;  423 ; 
Patty,  372 ;  Richard  Channing,  156, 
242,  255,  301,  423,  431;  Roger,  456; 
Sarah,  378,  456;  Thomas,  423. 

Moore's  Ordinary,  113. 

Moorman,  Agnes,  270;  Charles  (emi- 
grant), 69,  288;  71, 270 ;  270,  321 ;  Ju- 


INDEX 


631 


dith,   270,    321 ;     Lodovick    A.,    and 

family,   288  ;    Kachel,   352 ;    Thomas, 

69,  288,  321. 
Moorman's  River,  51,  53,  69. 
Morgan,  Dan,  106,  182,  183 ;   Edwin  L., 

383 ;  Haynes,  149 ;  John  H.,  512,  529. 
Morris,    John    W.,    314;    Joshua,    246; 

Lewis,  417;   Mary   S.,  Richard,   604; 

Susanna  D.,  561 ;  William,  604. 
Morrison,  George,  25  ;  505 ;  James,  468 ; 

216;    Kate,   Lilla,  Moses,   506;   Miss, 

553 ;  Rachel,  87 ;  Sarah  J.,  468. 
Morse,  Sallie,  462. 
Morson,  Arthur  (emigrant),  331 ;  family, 

331,  332. 
Morton,    Elizabeth,    350;    family,    537, 

538 ;  Joseph,  350 ;  William  D.,  359. 
Mosby,  Benjamin,  272  ;  433  ;  family,  542, 

543  ;   LittlebeiTy,  161,  164,  165 ;  Mar- 
tha, 433 ;  Theodosia,  272. 
Moseley,    Arthur,    165 ;    John    L.,    and 

family,  547 ;  Richard,  38. 
Moss  (emigrant),  582;  family,  581,  582. 
Mount   Airy   (N.   C),  374;   Athos,  240, 

241,   .526;    HoUy   (N.    J.),  320,  430; 

Pleasant,  604. 
Mountain  Retreat,  278 ;  View,  384,  385  ; 

287. 
Muhlenberg,  Peter,  95. 
Mulberry  Grove,  515  ;  Hill,  504 ;  192, 205, 

207,  558. 
MuU  family,  552. 
Muncaster,  George  A.,  477. 
Mundy,  Jesse,  Lou,  387. 
Munford,  George  W.,  361. 
Murkland,  W.  U.,  570. 
Murray,  Marian,  348. 
Myers,  Mr.,  213. 
Myrick,  Isadora  M.,  535. 

Nanseraond  Co.,  70,  322,  432. 

Nantes,  Edict  of,  271,  425. 

Napier,  Patrick,  49. 

Naret  family,  548. 

Nash,  Abner,  295 ;  Adelaide  W.,  539  ; 
Elizabeth  McG.,  295  ;  Frederick,  212  ; 
Gabriel  P.,  295  ;  H.  A.,  539 ;  John,  212, 

Nashville  (Tenn.),  392,  394,  395,  423,  448, 
451,  456,  460,  481,  556,  584. 

"  Nassau,"  67,  213. 

National  University,  400. 

Navirans  (Indian),  67. 

Nedriff ,  Mary  Ann,  26. 

Needham,  Andrew,  Margaret,  17. 

Negroes  (slaves),  58,  60,  76,  87,  169,  189, 
204,  223,  238,  270, 483,  598 ;  duty  on, 
57,  141  ;  freedom  of,  71,  141,  166,  270, 
321,  335,  490;  Harry  (Col.  CabeU's 
body  servant),  88,  184, 196,  197  ;  Isham 
Valentine,  184 ;  Peter,  598 ;  Tumbler, 
185,  etc. 

Negus,  Nellie,  28. 

Neilson,  Jane,  William,  446. 

Nelson,  Ambrose,  216  ;  Cleland  K.,  317  ; 
EUzabeth  B.,  339;   Hugh,  339,   411; 


Jane  B.,  411 ;  Mary,  431 ;  Mary  A.  E., 
273  ;  Philip,  431  ;  Robert,  and  family, 
330;  Thomas,  115,  339,377;  William, 
293  ;  250,  273 ;  509. 

Nelson  Co.  (Ky.),  199,  200  ;  (Va.),  39,  40, 
47,  59-61,  67,  107,  145,  170,  176,  178, 
187,  202,  203,  211,  214,  219,  223,  224, 
261-266,  274,  279,  281,  301,  302,  304, 
305,  314,  318,  320,  323,  340,  341,  346, 
349,  354,  364-367,  369,  376-378,  382, 
385-397,  401,  407,  425,  431,438,448- 
450,  539,  540,  542,  549,  574,  585,  592, 
593,  596,  601,  605-607 ;  factory,  222 ; 
Parish,  426. 

Netherland,  John,  38,  165  ;  Wade,  38,  50. 

Nevil,  or  Neville,  family,  387  ;  James,  37, 
49,  387  ;  56,  61, 100,  101, 106,  107, 125, 
150,  190,  387,  598. 

New  Glasgow,  80,  133,  150,  186,  194,  197, 
199,  202,  379,  381,  386  ;  Academy,  202. 

New  Hampshire,  590. 

New  Jersey,  182,  268,  298,  320,  382,  393, 
416-418,  430,  497-499,  558,  584,  590- 
592,  594. 

New  Kent  Co.,  35,  47, 128,  140,  158,  189, 
244,  337,352,  377,  561 ;  C.  H.,  194. 

New  London,  112,  196,  197,  295,  367; 
Academy,  375. 

Newman,  John,  112;  Joseph,  183. 

New  Market  (Norwood),  221,  279,  318, 
543. 

New  Mexico,  291. 

New  Orleans,  389,  417,  435,462,  488,  523, 
532,  597  ;  (battle),  307,  312. 

Newport,  Christopher,  67. 

Newport  (Ky.),  520 ;  (R.  I.),  417, 418, 420, 
422,  542. 

Newton  family,  287. 

New  York,  92,  162,  200,  277,  291,  298, 
299,  334,  353,  357,  365,  383,  404,  405, 
415-419,  421,  423,  433,  436,  437,  474, 
476,  482,  487,  489,  495,  498,  500,  505- 
508,  531-533,  544,  562,  563,  566,  569, 
580,  583,  584,  590-592,  595,  596 ;  Her- 
ald, 475. 

New  Zealand,  28. 

Niagara  Falls,  487,  489. 

Nicaragua,  532. 

Nicholas,  Betsy,  126;  Governor,  285? 
John,  49,  53,  78,  96,  128,  148,  180,  190, 
215,  413 ;  200  ;  190,  191 ;  Le^vis,  285  ; 
Mrs.,  126 ;  Robert  Carter,  97, 162,  190, 
200. 

Nichols  family,  405. 

Nicholson.  Mary,  Wilton,  379 ;  Mr.,  462. 

Nicketti  (Indian),  42-44,  54. 

Nicks,  HenrY,  270. 

Nicolson  family,  283,  284. 

Niles,  Miss,  375. 

Nininger  family,  351. 

Noble,John  W.,  517. 

Noland  family,  319. 

Norfolk,  Duke  of,  336. 

Norfolk  (E.),2,6,  19,416,561 ;  (Va.),  33, 
139,  148, 177,  315,  357,  383,  603. 


632 


INDEX 


Norman,  Phelps,  William,  453. 

Normandy,  2-5. 

Norreys,  Francis  Lord,  16. 

North,  Lord,  2h. 

Northampton  Co.,  507. 

North  Anna  River,  192. 

North  Carolina,  54,  70,  149, 169,  212,  21-3, 
225,  231,  280,  281,  295,  335,  347,  360, 
370,  372,  374,  386,  412,  422,  433,  435, 
449,  4.54,  456,  457,  472,  480,  481,  494, 
528,  563,  567,  581,  588,  594. 

Northern  Neck  (Va.),  170,  182. 

Northumberland  Co.,  75,  544. 

Norton  family,  337. 

Norvell,  William,  260. 

Norwood,  Rev.  Dr.,  426. 

"  Norwood,"  379, 390-392, 428,  539 ;  High 
School  (boys),  352,  353,  382,  391,  392, 
396,  428,  429,  544;  Institute  (girls), 
392;  Island,  39,  243;  Station  (New 
Market),  80,  221,  320. 

Nottoway  Co.,  372,  373,  469,  478, 600. 

Nova  Scotia,  415,  416. 

Nowlin,  Bryan,  Margaret,  342. 

Oakland  College,  311,  511. 

Oakridge,  218,  219,  223, 224, 407, 426,  433, 

439,  442. 
Ogden,  Edith,  Robert,  523. 
Ogilvey,  Gabriel,  2-5,  10,^1. 
Oglethorpe  University,  497. 
O'Hara,  General,  198. 
Ohio,  70-72 ,  290,  322,  337,  341,  357,  376, 

377,  395 ,  402-406,  413,  417,  423,  446, 

486,  505,  515,  517,  520,  529,  530,  604, 

605  ;  River,  77,  524. 
Oh-mv-chunk  Creek,  68. 
Old,  John,  (i3. 
Old  stone  chimney,  54. 
Oliver,  Alice,  468. 
Omohundro,  Richard,  608. 
O'Neal,  Charles,  154,  227 ;  Mary  M.,  455. 
O'Neill,  Frances  J.,  383. 
Opechancanough,  43. 
Orange  Co.,  81,  326,  337,  445. 
Oregon,  436,  437,  544,  591. 
Osage  chief,  474. 
Osaka  River  (Jap.),  4.S5. 
Osborne,  Rev.  Mr.,  210. 
Otey  family,  352. 
Ould,  Robert,  569. 

Overby  (emigrant),  .371 ;  family,  371,  372. 
Overwharton  Parish,  191. 
Owsley,  Governor,  518,  556 ;  Heaton,  and 

family,  523  ;  John  Q.,  and  family,  556. 
Oxford  ■  (E.),  13,  15,  16,  421,  505 ;  (O.), 

505. 

Pacific,  route  to,  413. 

Paddock,  Frances,  Franklin,  596. 

Page,  Anne  S.  B.,  338,  3.39 ;  Charles  H., 
366  ;  George  R.,  and  famUy,  320 ;  John, 
214,  .339;  339,  411;  339;  Judith,  339, 
411 ;  R.  C.  M.,  339,  411 ;  Thomas  N, 
338,  339. 


Painswick,  or  Panswick,  23,  242. 
Painter  family,  359,  360. 
Palmer  family,  542. 
Pamplin,  James,  148,  149. 
Pamunkey  River,  35,  561. 
Panama  Railroad  Co.,  423. 

Pankey,  Elizabeth,  572. 

Paimm,  Elizabeth,  Samuel,  438, 439  ;  John 
K.,  Thomas,  438  ;  Morton,  288. 

Paris  (France),  116,  347,  376,  419,  421- 
424,  436,  437,  475,  506,  566,  585,  590, 
596  ;   (Ky.),  291,  491,  515. 

Parishes  (Va.),  48,  etc. 

Parker  family,  436. 

Parkhill,  Charles,  490. 

Parks,  Judge,  Mattie,  374. 

Pariiament  (E),  10-12,  15,  16,  36,  160. 

Parrott,  William,  610. 

Parson's  cause,  145. 

Partridge  family,  313. 

Patrick  Co.,  449. 

Patterson.  Dr.,  610;  John,  51  ;  Martha, 
311;  Parrett,  610;  Randolph,  317; 
Samuel,  300 ;  Thomas,  148,  179. 

Patteson,  Camm,  and  family,  302,  303 ; 
Charles,  143,  148. 

Pattison,  Mr.,  142. 

Patton,  Colonel,  77,  412  ;  Elizabeth  [emi- 
grant), 4.53  ;  John  R.,  363. 

Paulding,  J.  K.,  278. 

Paulett  (emigrant),  family,  15,  16. 

Paxton,  Emma,  Thomas,  297;  Joseph, 
Mary  I.,  300. 

Payne,  Anne,  .305 ;  531  ;  Daniel,  Eliza- 
beth, 458  ;  Elizabeth  D.  S..  304  ;  George 
(emigrant),  .37.  38,  317;  Henry,  531; 
John,  68,  317;  Josias,  37;  Nathaniel 
W.,  305,  317;  Philip,  304,  305,  317; 
Robert,  39  ;  Theodosia,  530,  531 ;  Wil- 
liam, 458. 

Peaks  of  Otter,  369. 

Pearce,  Eliza,  James,  503,  504. 

Peck,  Thomas  K,  359. 

Pedigrees,  22. 

Pedlar  River,  53. 

Pegram,  John,  469. 

Pelham,  Catherine,  Charles,  398. 

Pendleton,  Catherine,  242,  296 ;  Edmund, 
95,  161,  275 ;  Mary,  496  ;  Micajah,  and 
family,  275,  277.;  Philip  (emigrant),  242, 
296. 

Penick  family,  5.54,  555  ;  557. 

"  Pen  (Penn  ?)  Park."  218,  348,  401,  564 

Penn,  Gabriel,  61,  87,  100,  101,  136-138, 
148,  178,  235,  295,  296 ;  John,  295 ; 
Matilda,  295  ;  Robert  (emigrant  9),  296 ; 
Sarah  C,  235,  295 ;  Sophia,  235;  WU- 
liam,  296. 

Pennsylvania,  63,  67,  182,  277,  292,  300, 
311,  312,  320,  335,  339,  341,  349,  3.50, 
354,  386,  .392,  393,  468,  481,  490,  .503. 
505, 510,  528, 566,  .593, 594, 596, 598, 599. 

Penny,  W.  C.  &  J,  7,  9. 

Perkins,  Anna  Maria,  543;  Eliza.  279; 
George,  279,  543 ;  Jane,  300  ;  Nicholas, 


INDEX 


633 


455, 476  ;  William  O'Neal,  and  f amUy, 

455-457. 
Perratt,  Ann  Mayo,  169-171, 601 ;  family, 

170. 
Perrott,  Nannie  A.,  606. 
Perry,  Commodore,  277,  340 ;  Mary,  401. 
Peter,  Elizabeth,  435 ;    John,   Susannah, 

William,  11-13. 
Peterborough,  Earl  of,  33,  34. 
Petersburg,  170,  192,  198,  225,  226,  259, 

302,  310,  335,  345,  347,  356,  435,  438, 

441,  544,  586. 
Pettus,  Elizabeth,    John,    Thomas    (emi- 
grant), 140,  141. 
Peyton,  Elizabeth,  Robert  {emigrant), 5Q1 ; 

Wythe  M.,  471. 
Peytonsburg,  197. 
Phelps,  Thomas,  51. 
Phi  Beta  Kappa  Society,  192,  212,  228, 

234,  505. 
Philadelphia,  70,  160,  161,  182,  192,  244, 

257,  291,  311,  320,321,  332,  342,344, 

349,  383,  385,  389,  392,  401,  402,  423, 

4:30,  456,  497,  500,  .532,  537,  541,  562, 

566,  592,  593;  Medical  CoUege,  363, 

376,  434,  475,  572,  596. 
Phillips,   Carrie,   551 ;    Charles   E.,   and 

family,  538,  539 ;   Dabney,  284 ;    Gen- 
eral, 113,  192  ;  John,  92  ;  Lucy  F.,  284 ; 

Mary,  541 ;  Richard,  173  ;  William  H., 

457. 
Phinney,  Alice,  Theodore,  542. 
Pickens,  General,  589. 
Pickett's   Division,   356,   384,    405,   565, 

586. 
Piedmont  (Va.),  67,  70;   Institute,  425, 

431,433. 
Pierce,  Mary  L.,  563 ;  President,  536. 
Pike,  John  C.,  202,  324. 
Pillow,  General,  493. 
Pinchbeck,  Elizabeth,  581. 
Pinckney,  C.  C,  347. 
Piper,  Alfred  Towry,  28. 
Pittsylvania  Co.,  99,  135,  149,  197,  328, 

346,  347,  382,  371,  449,  469-472,  531, 

546,  564,  568,  585. 
Plantations,  farms,  etc.  (see  Land,  Prices, 

Taxes,  Tobacco),  59-62,  66,  67,  76,  78, 

80,  81,  87,  102,  108,  124-127,  etc, 
Pleasants.  Dora,  280;   James,  161,  164- 

166,  239;   280,  322;  John,  239,  322; 

Joseph,  322 ;  Thomas,  68,  322. 
Plumer,  William  S.,  592. 
"Pocahontas  "  (Matoaka),  2.30. 
Poiudexter,  Fanny  P.,  281  ;  John,  47. 
"  Point  of  Fork  "  (Columbia),  41,  48,  67, 

68,  192-194. 
Point  Pleasant  (battle),  136,  296,413,549, 

599. 
Polk,  George  W.,  and  family,  457  ;  James 

K.,  408  ;  Leonidas,  Rufus,  513. 
Pollard.  E.  A.,  276,  434, 438  ;  famUy,433- 

43S ;  William,  150,  180. 
Pollitt  (see  Paulett)  family,  480,  481. 
PoUock,  Rev.  Mr.,  572. 


Poore,  Thomas,  555. 

Pope,  Annie,  354  ;  Katharine,  Nathaniel, 
336. 

Poplar  Forest,  246  ;  HiU,  271,  272,  281. 

Porter,  Peter  B.,  and  family,  487^89; 
John  (emigrant),  488 ;  Peter  A.,  488, 
489,  498. 

Portsmouth,  192,  277,  476. 

Posey,  John,  Martha,  Thomas,  479. 

Potomac  River,  334,  473. 

Powell,  Anne,  387 ;  Cuthbert,  Elizabeth, 
Llewellyn,  482 ;  James,  Jane,  533 ; 
Lucas  (emigrant  ?),  100,  177,  178,  187, 
216,  607  ;  Nathaniel,  and  family,  450, 
607,  608  ;  Susan  B.,  482  ;  Wyatt, 
387. 

Powell's  River,  413 ;  Valley,  412. 

Power,  Louise  Agnes,  425. 

Power  of  attorney,  40,  41. 

Powhatan  (King),  230,  463;  (Indians), 
42,  157,  230 ;  Co.  (Va.),  36, 50, 171,  249, 
451 ;  seat,  157,  398. 

Poythress,  Elizabeth,  Peter,  601. 

Prentis,  Joseph,  250. 

Presbytery  of  Hanover,  96,  593. 

Preston,  Ann,  454 ;  501 ;  Elizabeth  P., 
454;  famUv,  235,  399,  454;  Francis, 
501,  .502;  Henrietta,  493;  John  (emi- 
grant), 235,  454  ;  Josephine,  493 ;  Leti- 
tia,  235 ;  Margaret,  508 ;  Sarah,  545, 
Sophonisba  G.,  454,  521  ;  Susanna,  502  ; 
William,  367  ;  453,  454  ;  501 ;  WiUiam 
R.,  and  family,  399,  400. 

Prestwood,  George,  14 ;  Maria,  14,  IS. 

Prevost  family,  512. 

Price,  Elizabeth,  561 ;  family,  538  ;  Nancy. 
Samuel,  521;  Sarah  B.,  515;  Sterling, 
298,  473,  580. 

Prices  of  sundries,  60,  80,  83,  84,  88,  90- 
92,  133,  143,  144,  147,  150,  160,  177- 
181. 

Prince  Anne  Co.,  177;  Edward  Co.,  94, 
107,  113,  163,  192,  196,  197,  212,  2<-s, 
269,  271,  280,  281,  314,  327,  .3.54,  3.'>5, 
357-364,  371-374,  396,  467,  545,  571, 
593,  595,  602 ;  George  Co.,  225 ;  Wil- 
liam Co.,  442,  458,  486,  571. 

Princeton  (battle),  182,256;  College,  268, 
326,  337,  382,  489-491,  497-500,  5u2, 
503,  505,  512,  513,  558,  560,  592-595 ; 
Theological  Seminary,  497,  498,  503, 
505,  592-594. 

Prosser,  Thomas,  37,  46,  186. 

Pulaski  Co.,  359. 

Purdie,  Mr.,  164. 

PurneU,  Mary,  373. 

Pusey,  Dr.,  329. 

Putney,  Ellis,  109. 

Putney  Grammar  School  (E.),  337. 

Quaker.     See  Society  of  Friends. 
Quarles  family,  285 ;  General,  334. 
Quarrier  family,  547,  548. 
Quigg,  Ann,  320. 
Quirauck  Mountains,  67. 


634 


INDEX 


Radford.  Mary,  309 ;  Winston,  375. 

Ragland,  Ann,  370. 

Railey,  John,  239. 

Raine,  George,  38. 

Raleigh,  Walter,  344. 

Raleigh  Tavern,  85,  93-95. 

RamsdeU,  Homer,  436. 

Ramsey,  John,  143. 

Randolph, 70,  399  ;  Anne,  239,  605 ; 

Benjamin  H.,  320 ;  Beverley,  120,  164, 
165  ;  Dorothea,  239,583  ;  Edmimd,  117, 
118,  143;  Elizabeth,  239;  Frances  B., 
266 ;  Hardm,  551 ;  Isham,  38,  238,  239, 
388 ;  Jane,  228, 230 ;  239, 387 ;  Judith, 
245  ;  246 ;  John,  205,  225 ;  188,  225, 
230,  266,  346,  535,  537,  5.59;  Lidie, 
551 ;  Mary,  239,  387  ;  446  ;  605  ;  Peter, 
49.  83,  413 ;  Peyton,  84,  93.  125,  160, 
205 ;  Richard,  37,  230,  446 ;  2.30 ;  545 ; 
239,  605;  Susanna,  237-239,  583; 
Thomas,  240  ;  135 ;  37,  38,  169,  245  ; 
William  {emigrant),  239,  240;  432;  38, 
169,  361 ;  38,  49,  325. 

Randolph-Macon  College,  381. 

Ranson  family,  429. 

Rapidan,  326. 

Rapid  Ann  River,  193. 

Rawdon,  Lord,  416. 

Rawlings,  W.  M.,  553. 

Read,  Clement,  47,  49,  205,  207, 208,  211, 
562;  (C),  570;  Edmund,  209,  211, 
212  ;  Isaac,  62,  212,  562 ;  Lucie,  530 ; 
Margaret,  205,  211,  281 ;  Mary  (Hill), 
208;  Nannie  C,  570;  Paulina  (Cabell), 
209-212,  217,  227,  2.52;  Sarah,  570; 
Thomas,  192,  211,  5.58;  William  P., 
Willien  P.,  5.33;  WilHam  W.,  562; 
famUy,  563,  564. 

Records,  county,  etc.,  37,  47,  48,  50,  60, 
61,  142,  208. 

Recruiting,  etc.  (in  Revolution),  102, 
106,  108-111,  113,  115,  1.37,  138,  147- 
153,  162,  164,  177-179,  192-198. 

Rector  family,  474. 

Redd  family,  471. 

Redford  (Radford),  John,  35. 

Red  Gables,  549 ;  Hill,  .342-.344  ;  lands, 
439-441 ;  Oak,  228,  230 ;  Plains,  471 ; 
River  (Ky.),  290;  Sulphur  Springs, 
267,  427. 

Reeve  family,  482,  483. 

Reid,  Agnes  Ann,  593 ;  Alexander,  61, 
87,  100,  111 ;  Andrew  (emigrant),  598  ; 
599 ;  514,  .593,  598 ;  Esther,  514  ;  John, 
49,61,130,  132;  .384,388;  (emigrant), 
598  ;  Samuel  MeD.,  and  family,  597- 
601  ;  Sarah,  514,  593,  598 ;  Thomas 
(emigrant),  598;  William  S.,  316,  317, 
323,  350,  376,  379,  384,  390,  399,  469, 
.5.58,  597. 

Reilhe,  Marguerite  de,  80. 

"  Repton,"  228,  231,  232,  253,  454,  462, 
469,  477-480. 

"  Retirement,"  209, 210,  217, 559, 562,  .567. 

Revolution,  relative  to ;  soldiers  in,  etc., 


71,  79,  89,  92-115,  123,  126,  134-139, 
142-144,  146-153,  159-167,  172-174, 
176-184,  188,  192-198,  205,  206,  211. 
212,  219,  224,  227,  228,  234,  241,  256, 
259,  260,  268,  269,  275-279,  282,  292, 
295,  304,  306,  334,  336,  346,  349,  352, 
354,365,366,373,  377,  380,  381,383, 
386,  387,  393,  399,  400,  402,  406,  416, 
430-432,  458,  465,  467,  479,  481,487, 
502,  503,  510,  512,  515,  546,  549,  557, 
561,  562,  581,  582,  584,  588,  589,  599. 

Reynell,  George,  15. 

Reynolds,  Bessie,  544. 

Reynolds  Academy,  575. 

Rhinelander  family,  421,  422. 

Rhode  Island,  417,  542. 

Rice,  David,  96,  519 ;  James  H.,  519 ; 
Mary,  380  ;  Sophia,  519. 

Rich,  Archibald,  53. 

Richards,  Catherine,  Elizabeth,  505. 

Richardson,  Eliza,  .543  ;  Eva,  551 ;  Robert, 
234,  516,  518 ;  Samuel  Q.,  and  family, 
515-519. 

Richman,  Henri,  405. 

Richmond  (Ky.),  288,  290;  (Va.),  33,  35, 
38,  41,  52,  85,  89,  98,  101,  108,  109, 
113,  117,  119,  14.5,  170,  171,  185,  192, 
194,  202,  215,  219,  221,  222,  229,  250, 
2.53-257,2.59,261,  262,  264,  277,278, 
283,  285  ;  296,  298,  302-304,  308,  309, 
315,316, 322-325,327-333,336, 338, 3,39, 
344,  345,  347,  348,  351,  352,  356,  360, 
362,  365,  373,  376,  384,  388,  393,  397, 
398,  423,  426,  427,  431,  432,  434,  437, 
438,  440,  441,  443,  470,  473,  507,  534, 
541,  542,  559,  560,  562,  56.5-575,  578, 
580,  585-591,  606,  607,  609 ;  Medical 
College,  276,  316,  327,  382,  398,  566. 

Richmond  Co.,  354. 

Richmond  family,  518. 

Ridgeley,  Nicholas,  Rebecca,  .503. 

Riely  family,  567. 

Riflemen  (expert),  99,  100,  103,  106,  177, 
182,  183. 

Riggs,  Junius  M.,  313. 

Rind's  Virginia  Gazette,  82. 

Ringgold,  Ann,  430. 

Ritchie,  Albert,  574. 

Rittenhouse  family,  350. 

Rivanna  River,  39,  41,  59, 68, 69,  74, 193, 
194,  504. 

Rivers  (emigrant),  225  ;  Alexander,  and 
family,  226,  253,  406,  442-446  ;  Eliza- 
beth, 226 ;  Francis  E.,  225  ;  George, 
and  family,  226,  227,  439-441 ;  George 
L.,  vii,  417,  418;  Henry,  226,  439; 
James  B.,  226,  439 ;  Landon  C.,  and 
family,  218,  226,  241,  401-406,  439; 
Lucy  Shands,  225,  226  ;  Lucy  S.,  and 
family,  226,  366,  425-433  ;  Margaret  J., 
218,  226,  366, 406, 407 ;  Mary,  225  ;  Paul- 
ina C,  and  family,  226,  433-438; 
Robert,  121,  154,  213,  216-226,  227, 
263.  364,  426,  431 ;  descendants,  401- 
446 ;  Robert,  and  family,  226 ;  438,  4.39 ; 


INDEX 


635 


William,  225,  226,  William  C,  and 
family,  95,  122,  218,222,223,226,398, 
407-425,  443. 

Rives'  Church,  223. 

Roan,  John,  246. 

Roane,  Spencer,  200. 

"  Roanoke,"  535,  537,  559. 

Roanoke  citv,  301,  433, 449, 532 ;  Connty, 
403 ;  Island  (battle),  356,  441 ;  Naviga- 
tion Co.,  439  ;  River,  558. 

Robards,  George,  Nancy,  406 ;  Mrs.,  306, 
465. 

Roberts,  Elizabeth  H.,  300,  448  ;  James, 
185 ;  John,  and  famUy,  300,  448  ;  Rev. 
Dr.,  595. 

Robertson,  Captain,  524 ;  John,  229 ; 
Thomas  B.,  462. 

Robinson,  Beverley,  416  ;  John,  207,  208 ; 
(emigrant),  541 ;  53,  83,  133  ;  Leigh, 
332 ;  Mary,  555  ;  W.  Russell,  and  fam- 
Uy, .541,  .542. 

Roche,  John  A.,  507. 

Rochette,  Susanna,  271. 

Rockbridge  Co.,  145,  292,  297,  300,  329, 
348,  349,  382,  385,  593,  594,  598. 

Rockenback  family,  283,  284. 

Rockfish  Gap,  66,  67,  148,  174 ;  River, 
39,  40,  60,  79,  207. 

Rockingham  Co.,  257,  354. 

Rodes,  Charles,  61 ;  R.  E.,  313 ;  Sidney 
F.,  608. 

Rodney,  J.  W.,  460. 

Rogers,  Ann,  504  ;  Charles  E.,  298  ;  Jane, 
238  ;  Jason,  493 ;  John,  504  ;  Maria  P., 
493  ;  Mary  B.,  504;  Robert,  47  ;  Wil- 
liam B.,  420. 

Rolfe,  Jane,  John  {emigrant),  Thomas, 
230. 

Rose,  Alexander,  177,  178,  181 ;  Anne, 
215  ;  Caroline,  197,  214 ;  Charles,  61, 
96,  101.  148,  387;  Gustavus  A.,  259; 
Henry,  61,  62  ;  (J.),  386 ;  Hugh,  215 ; 
215  ;  61,  92,  96,  100,  104,  111,  137, 139, 
144,  148,  154,  180,  186,  193,  194,  196, 
197,  202,  214,  215 ;  John,  61,  96,  100, 
134,  148,  177,  178,  377,  598 ;  Judith  S., 
213-216  ;  Nannie  E.,  386, 387  ;  Patrick, 
96,  128,  197;  Robert  (emigrant),  48, 
51-53,  75,  145,  173-175,  215,  325,  387, 
412 ;  179,  212. 

"  Rose  HaU,"  213. 

"  Rosenvik,"  391,  396. 

Rosewell,  or  Roswell,  Henrv,  14,  23. 

Ross  famUy,  601 ;  David,  117  ;  L.  S.,  299. 

Rosser  family,  376. 

Roulett,  Mary,  372. 

Rout  family,  490. 

Row,  Abbie,  376. 

Rowe  family,  551. 

Roy,  Hannah,  John,  402  ;  Maria,  337. 

Royall,  Mary,  583  ;  Miss,  276. 

Rucker,  Ambrose,  61, 100, 138  ;  Anthony, 
111 ;  Ben,  61,  100. 

Rucker's  Run,  62,  219. 

Ruffin,  Anne,  John,  604  ;  Tliomas,  179. 


Rundell  (Randall  ?),  Mr.,  22. 

Russell,  Caroline  E.,  520 ;  Elizabeth,  541 ; 

WUliam,  520  ;  521 ;  541 ;  (H.),  525. 
Russell  Co.  (Ky.),  521 ;   (Va.),  521. 
Russia,  496. 

Rust  family,  536,  537  ;  George,  57,  536, 
Rutherfoord  family,  335 ;  E.,  491 ;  John, 

251. 

Sabot  Hill.  3.32,  3.33,  335. 

Saint  Aldhelm,  7 ;  Anne  Parish,  48,  59, 
60,  76, 173, 215, 286 ;  215  ;  Asaph,  Bish- 
op of,  165 ;  George  Parish,  496 ;  Igna- 
tius College,  523  ;  James  Parish,  35, 
48,  246;  (Northam),  48,  140;  (South- 
am),  48,  246,  561 ;  John's  Church,  215, 
256,  257,  426  ;  Leger  family,  411,  412 ; 
Louis,  289-291,  297-299,  312,  334,  353, 
356,  376,  445,  446,  460,  462,  467,  491, 
498,  505,  514,  516,  517,  527-530,  577- 
.581,  .583, 584 ;  (University),  297 ;  Nicho- 
las Chapel,  6-9,  20 ;  Patrick  Parish, 
269;  Paul's  Church,  254,  382,  569, 
574 ;  299 ;  Paul's  Parish,  129,  140,  189, 
270,  381,  455,  534 ;  Peter's  Parish,  244, 
377,  561 ;  Philips,  Barbadoes,  157,  168, 
170. 

Sale,  John,  150.  151. 

Salisbury,  Earl  of,  242. 

Salt,  97,  101,  245. 

Salter,  Anne,  Nicholas,  247. 

Samoa,  458. 

Sanders  (Saunders),  General,  313. 

Sandidge,  Nathaniel,  284. 

Sands,  Richardson,  422. 

Sandy  Creek  voyage,  594. 

Sangster,  Maude,  27. 

Sappington,  George  W.,  577. 

Saratoga  (battle)  and  prisoners,  106,  182, 
183,  188,  219,  422. 

Satterwhite  family,  492,  493. 

Saunders  (Sanders),  Eliza,  James,  Nan- 
nie, 437  ;  John  H.,  160,  161,  165,  561; 
Judith,  548;  Lela,  314;  Mr.,  253; 
Picton,  280. 

Saurin  family,  271. 

Savage,  Elizabeth,  W.  H..  26  ;  John,  62  ; 
550. 

Sawyer,  Lemuel,  386. 

Scales  family,  462. 

Schofield,  General,  509. 

Scotch  Irish,  341,  369,  446 ;  Falls,  246. 

Scotland,  Scotch  descent,  etc.,  67,  91,  92, 
121,  128,  175,  189,  100,  215,  210,  222, 
236,  257,  278,  283,  292-294,  296,  300, 
303,  324-.326,  331,  346,  347,  3.50,  416, 
423,  425-427,  435,  442,  452,  464,  529, 
533,  548,  564,  572,  582,  589,  591. 

Scott,  Archibald  (emigrant),  350;  Anna, 
291 ;  Charles,  144, 162. 1H4  ;  Daniel,  239  ; 
Edward,  37,  38,  49  ;  Eliza  G.,  441,  442 ; 
Elizabeth  R.,  546  ;  Emma,  536  ;  family, 
145;  James  (emigrant),  442;  Jennie, 
355  ;  John  A.,  and  family,  350,  351, 
362 ;  John,  442 ;  47,  63 ;  Joseph,  41 ; 


636 


INDEX 


Judith,  144,  214,  259 ;  173 ;  Louisa  Q., 
384  ;  Louise  K.,  508  ;  Miss,  173  ;  Mary, 
412 ;  Mary,  Matthew,  510 ;  Nannie, 
408  ;  Robert  E.,  442  ;  (W.),  508;  bam- 
nel,  40  ;  Seymour,  l(i5  ;  Thomas,  175  ; 
430 ;  Walter,  175  ;  Win6eld,  298,  398, 
403,  570,  579. 

ScottsviUe,  49,  193,  276. 

Scruggs,  B.  E.,  323. 

Scull,  tusan,  383. 

Scutt,  Martha,  Thomas,  25. 

Seal,  John  R.,  357. 

Seamon  family,  445. 

Searle,  Caroline,  Francis,  488. 

Sears  (emigrant),  421 ;  family,  419-421. 

Seaton  (Seton),  George,  61. 

Seddon  {einiyrant),o>'A  ;  family,  333-335  ; 
Elvira  C,  3y() ;  James  A.,  332-335, 396 ; 
John,  396  ;  Thomas  A.,  396. 

Sehon,  Lee,  481. 

Selden,  Miles.  561. 

Seminole  Indian  War,  488,  575. 

Seton  (Beaton),  Alexander,  George,  Mar- 
garet, 215. 

Settlements,  pertaining  to :  emigrants, 
land  entries,  grants,  etc,  32-72,  etc. 

Settlers,  nationality  of,  etc.,  38,  57,  67, 
68. 

Shackelford  family,  288-292. 

Shadden,  W.  B.,  519. 

Shands  (emigrant),  226 ;  Lucy,  Priscilla, 
William,  225,  226. 

Shanks  famUy,  375,  376  ;  David,  293, 297, 
375. 

Shaip  (Granville  ?),  166  ;  Miss,  551. 

Shawnee  Indians,  508. 

Shaw-Stewart  family,  435. 

Shelby,  Alfred,  501  ;  Evan,  43,  296 ;  Isaac, 
Virginia,  501. 

Shelton.  Clough,  149;  John  M.,  281; 
Joseph.  47  ;  l'81 ;  Rose  E.,  281. 

Shenandoah  Co.,  95  ;  River,  257. 

Shepard,  Elilui  H..  353. 

Shepherd,  Annie,  Christopher,  380 ;  David, 
100,  125,  219;  John  B.,  and  family, 
517,  518. 

Shepherson,  John  G.,  376. 

Sheppard,  C,  27  ;  F.  A.,  and  family,  27. 

Sheridan,  General,  390. 

Sheriffs,  35-30,  49,  53,  76,  etc. 

Sherman,  General,  405,  423. 

Shields,  A.  W.,  328;  George  H.,  and 
family,  517  ;  Judith  S.  C,  145  ;  Mr., 
145. 

Shipman,  William  J.,  323. 

Shoekoe  Creek,  572 ;  Hill,  119 ;  (ceme- 
tery), 255,  500,  566;  warehouse,  89. 

Shores,  Thomas,  354.  • 

Short  Creek  Meeting  (0.),  70. 

Shovel,  Cloudesley,  33,  129. 

Shrewsbury  family,  548. 

Sigoumey  {emigrant),  425;  family,  424, 
425. 

Simcoe,  Colonel,  109,  193. 

Simpson  family,  552,  553. 


Sims,  Priscilla,  206,  363 ;  327. 

Sinclair,  Annie,  348. 

"Sion  Hill,"  130,  133,  140,  234. 

Sioussat,  Nannine,  605. 

Skelton,  James,  38. 

Skinker  family,  445,  446. 

Skinner  family,  422. 

Skipwitb,  Henry,  164,  165;  Lelia,  266; 
Peyton,  2(i6  ;  Sarah,  William,  604. 

Slaughter,  PhUip,  242,  432. 

Slawson,  Kate  L.,  334. 

Sloane  faniUy,  .531. 

Smallwood,  Eleanor,  William,  452. 

Smiles,  Samuel,  129,  271. 

Smith,  Ambrose  J.,  47  ;  Anne,  272  ;  376 ; 
5(,9  ;  Bowker,  545  ;  EHzabeth,  59  ;  403 ; 
502  ;  Evelyn  R.,  418  ;  family,  288  ;  F. 
G.,  320  ;  Francis,  453  ;  502  ;  George  W., 
251 ;  Guy,  56,  546 ;  Jane,  546 ;  John. 
59,  454 ;  402  ;  453  ;  209  ;  Joseph,  504  ; 
Judith,  584;  Kirby,  .580;  Lucy,  59; 
Marion,  569;  Mary,  489,  490;  402; 
Obadiah,  59;  478;  0.  C,  and  family, 
472;  Peartree,  59;  Re  Lewis,  430; 
Reuben  (emigrant),  584  ;  Robert  (emi- 
grant), 490  ;  403 ;  165 ;  376 ;  Samuel  S., 
490,  512;  Sarah,  447;  Sophia,  555; 
Susan,  478 ;  Susanna,  501  ;  Thomas, 
247,  412;  (B.),  144;  Walker  B.,  418 ; 
William,  361;  59,  165;  (H.),  418; 
(Patterson),  569;  (Peartree),  454; 
(Preston),  453. 

Smythe,  Thomas,  247,  412. 

Smythe  Co.,  359,  547. 

Snoddy,  Ann,  Robert,  557. 

Snooks,  Matthew,  178, 179. 

Soane,  Henry,  Judith,  388. 

Society  of  Friends  (Quakers),  42,  43,  68- 
72, 239,  209,  270,  288, 321, 322,  432,  516. 

Soldiers.  106,  etc.     See  Wars. 

Soldier's  Joy,  176, 185-188,  278, 317,  542 ; 
Rest,  326. 

Somerset  (E.),  2,  5,  6,  11,  12,  14,  16-18, 
20,  29,  57,  402. 

Somerville  family,  368. 

South,  Cora,  482. 

Southall,  Dr.,  259 ;  James,  102 ;  Maria  W., 
383  ;  Stephen,  383  ;  Turner,  128. 

Southampton,  Earl  of,  457. 

South  Anna  River,  35 ;  branch  of  James, 
67. 

South  Carolina,  70, 108, 109, 139, 152, 183, 
184,  186,  192,  213,  250,  252.  256,  297, 
310,  329,  347,  353,  358,  383,  395,  417, 
418,  421,  424,  437,  457,  586,  588,  589. 

South  River  Meeting,  69,  71,  72,  321. 

Southwest  Mountains,  39,  69,  72, 189, 194. 

Southern  University,  460. 

Southgate.  W.,  202. 

Southwalk  Parish,  238. 

Spain,  222,  419,  .566. 

Spears,  James,  58. 

Speed,  James,  70. 

Spencer,  Alice,  456 ;  Anne,  301 ;  James 
G.,  and  family,  311 ;  Sally,  450  ;  Sarah, 


INDEX 


637 


466;  Samuel,  53;  WiUiam,  456;    134, 

149. 
Spencer's  Ordinary,  196. 
Spiller,  Jane,  William,  569. 
Spotswood,    Alexander    (emigrant),   215, 

305,  325,    326,    546;    Dorothea,    325; 

Anne,  John,  Mary,  546. 
Spottsvlvania  Co.,  189, 326,  402, 496,  510 ; 

C.  H.  (battle),  318.  358,  586. 
Springfield,  192,  373,  374. 
Sprowl,  Oliver,  Paulina,  556. 
Sprye,  R.  S.  M.,  12. 

Spurlock,  Drury,  325  ;  Neal  &  Co. ,  394. 
Stafford  Co.,  191,  271,  287,  331,  333,  334, 

396. 
Stagg  family,  551 ;  Mary  S.,  304. 
Stamp  Act,  82-85. 
Stanhope,  Mary,  341. 

Stanley,  Hannah,  Thomas  (emigrant),  487. 
Stanton  (Staunton),  Benjamin,  355  ;  Edwin 

M.,  70. 
Staples,  Joseph,  2S4  ;  Thomas  A.,  285. 
Starke,  Fanny,  176  ;  John,  47. 
Starkey,  Mary,  541. 
Staunton  (Stanton),  Robert,  46,  114,  115, 

195,  234-236,  256,  281,  339,  350,  357, 

380,  439,  535. 
"  Staunton  Hill,"  335, 338 ;  River,  58,  70, 

205,  346,  567. 
Stearns,  Marcus,  Margaret,  523. 
Steele  family,  508,  509  ;  J.  A.,  495. 
Stephen  (King),  2. 

Stephenson  family,  392  ;  Maggie,  467. 
Steptoe,  Frances  C,  545 ;  James,  365. 
Sterritt  family,  548. 
Steuben,  Baron,  194. 
Stevens,  Ebenezer,   M.  L.,  422 ;  General, 

196. 
Stewart,  Archibald,  Margaret,  435. 
Stirling,  Lord,  183,  334. 
Stith,  William,  245,  246,  .545. 
Stokes  family,  552  ;  and  Rives,  440,  441. 
Stone,  Emma,  608. 

Stoner,  Daniel,  37,  38,  169 ;  Peter,  165. 
Stony  Point  (Albemarle),  69;  (battle),  256, 

479. 
Storer,  Bellamy,  405. 
Stovall,  George,  61  ;  Ruth,  471,  548. 
Stovall's  ferry,  113. 
Strachey,  William,  67,  68. 
Strange,  Anna,  Gideon,  G08. 
Stretch  family,  583,  584. 
"  Struman,"  243,  244,  539. 
Stuart,  Archibald,  200, 339 ;  Andrew,  John, 

Lewis,  536  ;  Mary  (Queen),  589. 
Stubblefield,  Frances,  George,  326. 
Styles,  Mr.,  21. 

Suffolk  (E.).  .588;  (Va.),  197,322. 
Sugar-Loaf  Meeting,  69,  322. 
Sugar-making,  52. 
Summers,  Simon,  179. 
Surry  (E.),  26  ;  (Va.),  225,  238,  315,  594, 

604. 
Surveyors,  36,  37,  39,  49,  50,  53,  76,  77, 

79,  81,  87,  105,  169-171,  etc. 


Surveys,  41,  51,  53,  54,  .57,  etc. 

Sussex  (E.),  27,  299  ;  (Va.),  220,  225,  226. 

Suter,  R.  Lee,  482. 

Sutton  family,  303. 

Swan,  Gustavus,  Sarah,  417. 

Swan  Creek,  47,  62,  130,  147. 

Swedenborg,  Emanuel,  602. 

Sweet   Springs,  186,  209,   241,  269,  402, 

593. 
Swiss,  Switzerland,  354,  355. 
Syme,    John    (emigrant),    188,   325 ;  184, 

185,    188,  189;  185,   187;   Sally,   184, 

185,  188, 190. 

Tahb,  Mary,  601. 

Ta..,.,  James,  97. 

Talbot,  John,  143,  144. 

Taliaferro,  Benjamin,  148, 177.  178,  181 ; 
Charles,  61 ;  Elizabeth,  288 ;  Mary, 
275  ;  Philip,  288  ;  Zacharias,  61,  100, 
178,  598. 

Talley  family,  400. 

Tandy  family,  527,  528  ;  WiUiam,  504. 

Taney,  Chief  Justice,  339. 

Tankerly,  Sarah  M.,  585. 

Tarleton,  Judith,  Stephen,  583. 

Tarletou's  Raid,  114,  193,  196,  197,  201, 
414. 

"  Tarover,"  329,  330. 

Tarr  family,  346. 

Taxes,  42,  46,  70,  82, 110-112,  201. 

Taylor,  Adele,  489  ;  Alexander  F.,  343 ; 
Alice,  242  ;  Ann,  454  ;  446 ;  Bayard, 
521 ;  Benjamin,  530 ;  Edmund,  242  ; 
Edward,  430;  George,  ISO;  .540; 
Henry  B.,  304  ;  James  (emigrant),  242, 
296  ;  582  ;  John,  242  ;  145  ;  53U  ;  Kate, 
5.55  ;  Livingston  G.,  484 ;  Mary,  571  ; 
296  ;  484  ;  530  ;  Matthew,  Mercy,  430 ; 
Nona,  554  ;  Robert,  343  ;  Thomas,  446. 

TenEyck,  Mr.,  495. 

Tenison,  A.  M.,  Marion  R.,  394. 

Tennessee,  42,  314,  350,  375,  392,  394, 
395,  447,  448,  451,  456,  457,  4.59,  461, 
474,  481,  496,  514,  556,  570,  584,  609; 
River,  414. 

Terrell,  Micajah,  71,  321  ;  Sarah,  71. 

Terry,  James,  50  ;  General,  509 ;  Nancy, 
William,  545. 

Tevis,  Lloyd,  Louise,  495. 

Texan  War  of  Independence,  434. 

Texas,  294-300,  347,  351,  353,  371,  374, 
378,  394,  395,  397,  441,  449,  457-462, 
467,  474-476,  479,  519,  526,  530,  537, 
551,  553,  610. 

Thames  (battle),  515. 

"  The  Bird,"  370 ;  Brooke.  228  ;  "  Crab 
Orchard,"  478  ;  Forks,  456  ;  Glebe,  232, 
234,  236,  4.52,  486,  489;  SO,  .386; 
Grove,  9  ;  Old  Mansion,  5:i6  ;  Point  of 
Honor,  241;  Retreat,  228-230;  Seven 
Islands,  127,  533. 

Thorn,  Elizabeth,  John,  601. 

Thomas,  Anna,  336 ;  C  L.,  305 ;  Corne- 
lius, 61,  80,  96, 150,  174,  598;  General, 


638 


INDEX 


509;  Job,  51,  158;  L.  B.,  Philip  (emi- 
grant),  Samuel,  Sarah,  51t5. 

Thompson, ,   4G5  ;    Bartlett,    165  ; 

Eliza  J.  T.,  40(5 ;  Elizabeth  S.,  607 ; 
Ida  May,  308 ;  James,  102,  136 ;  John, 
John  B.,  John  H.,  406  ;  John  R.,  424  ; 
John  H.,  and  family,  547 ;  Joseph,  38, 
48,  4t);  Lenora  V.,  525;  Lucas  P., 
535,  607  ;  Marie  T.,  406  ;  Margaret  A., 
535  ;  Morton,  607  ;  Waddy,  270. 

Thornton  family,  282-285;  Elizabeth, 
414;  John,  51. 

Three  Ridge  Mountains,  325. 

Three  JSprings,  378. 

Thruston,  Frances,  368. 

Thurlow,  Roth  C,  509. 

Tidewater  Virginia,  39,  40,  48,  66,  325. 

Tiernan,  Dr.,  Elizabeth,  145. 

TUden,  President,  361,  382,  474. 

Tildsley,  John,  47. 

Tillotson  Parish,  59,  301. 

TUly,  Elizabeth,  367. 

Tilton,  Eleanor  F.,  505. 

Timberlake,  Elizabeth,  320. 

Tithables,  37,  38,  48-50,  72. 

Tobacco,  37,  58,  02,  85,  89,  133,  143, 146, 
220,  221 ;  Row  Mountains,  81. 

Todd,  John,  206  ;  Lucy,  337 ;  Mrs.,  85 ; 
Richard,  505  ;  Thomas,  505 ;  William, 
516. 

Tombleson,  John,  and  family,  29. 

Tompkins,  Christopher,  512,  525  ;  Sarah 
A.,  512  ;  Theodosia,  525. 

Toombs,  Mr.,  579. 

Towles,  Anna  Maria,  401-403  ;  Elizabeth 
L.,  560 ;  Oliver,  179,  240,  241,  402 ;  402, 
560 ;  Thomas,  240. 

Town  at  the  Falls,  38 ;  of  Warwick,  38. 

Tradition,  33,  43,  53. 

Trails  (Indian),  39,  66. 

TransTlvania  University,  491,  498,  511, 
518,"  529. 

"  Traveller's  Rest,"  301,  302,  304,  464. 

Treaties,  107;  116. 

Trent,  Alexander,  50 ;  Mr.,  146  ;  Peter- 
field.  S5. 

Trenton  (battle),  182. 

Trimble,  Allen,  Eliza  J.,  406 ;  Nannie, 
289;  Robert,  288,291. 

Trinity  Church,  223 ;  College,  417 ;  566  ; 
Parish,  270,  301,  561. 

Trumbo,  Sarah  E.,  479. 

Tucker,  Beverley,  372;  Eliza,  439; 
George  {emigrant),  439,  440;  Henry 
St.  G.,  225  ;  John  R.,  600 ;  Maria  F., 
440,  441 ;  Nathaniel  B.,  225  ;  Rebecca 
E,  440;  St.  George  (emigrant),  225, 
265,  266,379;  Sarah,  215. 

Tuley,  Charies,  87. 

Tunstall,  Florence,  John,  279;  William, 
Winifred,  472. 

Turgot,  Adam,  2,  5. 

Turner,  Byrd  T.,  429 ;  Jesse,  567  ;  Mrs. 
Wirt,  570. 

Turpin,  Thomas,  38,  39,  50,  51,  413. 


Tuscaroras  Indians,  39,  40. 

Tutwiler  (emigrant),  'ib^;  family,  354; 
John,  537. 

Twyman,  J.  J.,  276. 

Tye,  Allen,  42. 

Tye  River,  42,  44,  52,  53,  57,  80, 113, 124, 
125,  243,  261,  323,  324,  377;  Ware- 
house, 389. 

Tyler  family,  537 ;  John,  250,  537 ;  276, 
379,  415,  464,  524,  537. 

"Tyndale,"  1-3. 

Tyree,  Samuel,  532. 

Tyre's  Plantation,  196. 

Tyson  famUy,  398,  399. 

Union  College  (N.  Y.),  498,  590;  Flag, 
180,  181 ;  Hill,  vii,  32,  39,  41.  66,  81, 
86.  100,  114,  122,  124-127,  146,  174, 
186,  190-204,  209-212,  216-218,  220, 
227,  234,  250-252,  257,  258,  261,  265, 
268,  324,  327,  339,  340,  354,  365,  369, 
376,  379,  380,  384,  390-396,  401,  406, 
407,  428,  429,  558,  560;  Ridge,  292; 
Theological  Seminary  (N.  Y.),  422; 
(Va.),  210,  359,  371,  375,  595. 

University  of  the  City  of  New  York,  421, 
444,  482  ;  College  of  Medicine,  324  ;  of 
Dublin,  368;  Edinburgh,  564;  Louisville, 
507 ;  Maryland,  585,  596  ;  Mississippi, 
308,  309;  Missouri,  445;  North  Caro- 
lina, 335,  568;  Pennsylvania,  241,  258, 
279,  280,  318,  382,  397,  401,  434,  481, 
540,  566 ;  Virginia,  67,  203,  243,  264, 
266,  276,  278,  279,  281,  299,  .302,  314, 
327, 328,  330,  331,  333,  334,  344,  351, 
353,  367,  368,  375,  378,  382,  392,  393, 
396,  405,  414,  415,  419,  420,  422,  427, 
433-435,  438-442,  444,  445,  469,  472, 
475,  476,  482,  483,  505,  509,  532,  539, 
543,  545,  560,  562,  564,  565,  568,  569, 
571,  572,  575,  585,  586,  589,  590,  591, 
596,  597,  604;  (rectors  of),  264,  265, 
443 ;  (visitors  of),  264,  302,  407,  408, 
443,  569. 

Upper  Meeting.  322. 

Upshaw,  Dr.,  462. 

Upshur,  Sarah  B.,  506. 

Urbana  University,  604. 

Urquhart  family,  529. 

Utah,  473,  518,  540. 

Valentine,  Lieutenant,  106. 

Valley  Farm,  542,  543  ;  Forge,  183. 

Van  Buren,  President.  408. 

Van  Campen.  Anstes  D.,  533. 

Vanderbilt,  Mrs.  Cornelius.  365,  597. 

Vanderbilt  University,  460,  532. 

Van  Dorn,  General,  299,  473. 

Van  Vleek,  Almeria  L.,  401. 

Van  Zandt  (emigrant),  383  ;  family,  383. 

Variety  MUls,  222,  426;  Shades,  139,  140. 

Varina,  36,  455. 

Vaughan,  Elvira,  556  ;  Kitty,  236 ;  Mary. 

556  ;  Milton  A.,  555  ;  Shadrack,  236 ; 

WUson,  554. 


INDEX 


639 


Venable,  Abraham  (emigrant).  270,  375; 
43, 47,  269,  270,  468 ;  270  ;  Agnes,  280 ; 
Andrew  R.,  and  family,  571 ;  Anne  M., 
562 ;  Elizabeth  A.,  467,  468 ;  family, 
70,  269,  270  ;  Henninghara,  281  ;  Hugh 
L.,  270;  John,  71,  270,  369;  Josephine, 
334 ;  Margaret,  375  ;  267-272  ;  Martha, 
358  ;  Mary,  270  ;  Mr.,  396  ;  Nathaniel, 
269,  270,  468  ;  Paul  C,  375  ;  Richard, 
325;  04;  Samuel  W.,  192,  199,  268, 
269,  281,  562,  571 ;  334 ;  William,  270 ; 
358. 

"  Verdant  Vale,"  174, 175,  292,  294,  295. 

Victoria  (Queen),  191. 

Vincent,  Mr.,  436. 

Virginia,  31,  etc. 

Virginia  Company  of  London,  16,  168, 
170,  244 ;  412,  456 ;  Gazettes,  143, 161 ; 
Historical  Society,  52,  143,  206,  264, 
335,  344,  355,  373,  408,  420,  421,  587, 
589;  Military  Institute  (V.  M.  I.), 
279,  281-284,  297,  330,  356,  422,  437, 
565,  570,  573  ;  Springs,  155. 

Vobe,  Mrs.,  102. 

Waco  (Tex.),  294,  295,  297-299,  462; 
University,  299. 

Waddel,  or  Waddell,  James  (emigrant), 
594 ;  Janetta,  593,  594 ;  Kitty,  Lucy, 
351. 

WaddiU  famUy,  314-316. 

Waddy,  Elizabeth,  501. 

Wade  (emigrant),  and  family,  541. 

Wadham  College  (E.),  505. 

Wages:  Burgess,  86,  88,  89;  Committee 
of  Safety,  101 ;  Convention,  98 ;  Dele- 
gate, 134,  136 ;  Soldiers,  150. 

"  Wahunsenacawh,"  230. 

Wailes,  Rev.  Mr.,  539. 

WakeHeld,  Miss,  248. 

Walbancke   E.  F.   29. 

Wales,  67,  '242,  245,  294,  353,  355,  464, 
503,  534. 

Wales,  John,  47. 

Walker,  Avis,  571  ;  C,  319,  .320  ;  D.  N., 
571;  family,  60;  Frances,  337;  Fran- 
cis, 212,  410,  412;  General,  532; 
George,  61  ;  Jane,  299  ;  Jean,  516 ; 
John,  63,  95,  413  ;  337 ;  Judith  P.,  407, 
411-414;  Lucy,  .564;  Martha,  349; 
Mary  P.,  564 ;  Robert,  .386  ;  Sarah  E., 
386;  Susan,  404;  418;  Thomas,  37; 
412  ;  42,  63,  70,  77,  189,  212,  412-414; 
420,  564 ;  414  ;  Timothy,  404. 

Walker's  Church,  409. 

Wall,  Mr.,  216. 

Wallace,  Caleb,  96. 

Waller  (emigrant),  and  family,  496;  Miss, 
376 ;  WiUiam,  47. 

Walthall,  Eliza,  231. 

Walton,  William,  107. 

War  of  1709,  487;  of  1812,  275,  277, 
283,  290,  292,  293,  307,  312,  336,  349, 
354,  371,  376,  399,  402,  407,  434,  469, 
470,  487,  489,  502,  515,  590,  603,  605. 


Ward,  Henry  C,  and  family,  546 ;  John 
H.,  556 ;  Margaret,  424  ;  Melinda,  519 ; 
Milton  A.,  556  ;  Samuel,  424  ;  Thomas. 
556 ;  William,  130  ;  (E.),  556. 

Wardlow,  Mary  C,  479. 

Ware,  Jane,  542;  Judith  S.,  144,  214, 
259 ;  Mrs.,  461 ;  Peter,  144. 

Ware  Parish,  282. 

Warfield  (emigrant),  503;  family,  502- 
505. 

Waring,  John  U.,  515. 

Warminster  (E.),  1,  10,  11,  18-20,  23,  33, 
45,  47,  63  ;  (Va.),  47,  63,  119,  153-155, 
199,  217,  218,  220,  221,  258,  261,  263, 
425, 433, 438, 439,  601, 602 ;  (Academy), 
199,  214,  228,  381  ;  (Warehouse),  220. 

Warner, 432  ;  Alfred.  289  ;  Dr.,  398. 

"  Warner's  Hall,"  331. 

Warren,  2-32,  439  ;  County,  319. 

Warrens,  Edward  R.,  and  family,  29. 

Warrenton,  458. 

Warriner  family,  .372. 

Wars.  See  Indian  Wars,  Revolutionarv 
War,  War  of  1709  and  of  1S12,  Texan 
War,  Mexican  War,  Civil  War. 

Warwick,  Abraham,  110;  Sarah  A.,  574. 

Warwickshire  (E.),  240,  488. 

Warwicktown  (Va.),  38. 

Washington  (D.  C),  275,  310,  ,332,  .3-33, 
339,  344,  383,  386,  392,  400,  408,  418, 
420,  422,  428,  430,  434,  438,  455,  458, 
464,  487,  488,  491.  544,  568,  581-583, 
605 ;  (Pa.),  392,  528. 

Washington,  Bushrod,  252 ;  George,  32, 
77,  78,  88,  109,  115,  117,  119,  120,  151, 
161,  180,  182,  183,  188,  199,  237,  256, 
296,  377,  413,  414,  432,  440. 

Washington  Academy  (see  Augusta  and 
Liberty  Hall  Academies),  3(54,  368, 
369,378,  598;  College,  1-54,  201,  217, 
277,  280,  287,  291,  297,  301,  304,  314, 
345,  .350,  351,  3.54,  375,  376,  385,  442, 
449,  462,  495,  496,  520,  .532,  533,  537, 
539,  540,  574,  585,  598-600,  608 ;  and 
Lee  University,  67,  234,  2.56,  300,  368, 
375,  496,  530,  .583,  600,  601. 

Washington  Co.  (Kv.),  5.53;  (Tex.),  4.59, 
460,  461 ;  (Va.),  359,  362;  Parish,  175. 

Washington  Henry  Academy,  380 ;  and 
Jefferson  College,  528. 

Watkins,  Elizabeth  W.,  565 ;  Henning- 
ham,  34.5  ;  Joseph,  345  ;  Mary  C,  167, 
345;  Nancy,  467;  Samuel  W.,  and 
famUy,  280,  281 ;  Thomas,  246  ;  268  ; 
400 ;  Thomas  A.,  and  family,  563. 

Watson,  A.  S.,  539 ;  George,  443 ;  Mary, 
472  ;  Sallie  K.,  443 ;  Susan,  228 ;  Young, 
and  family,  453. 

Watts.  Edward.  403 ;  Elizabeth,  25  ;  508 ; 
Emily,  284  ;  General,  212  ;  604  ;  Letitia 
G.,  403  ;  Walton  G..  300 ;  WiUiam,  61. 

Waugh,  Edward,  and  family,  291,  292 ; 
Isabella.  175,  291,  294;  James,  175. 

Waugh's  Ferry,  174. 

Wayne,  General,  232,  256. 


640 


INDEX 


Waj'nesboro,  391. 

Weakly,  barah  J.,  457. 

Webb,   George,  57;    family,  528,    529; 

Isaac,  Winifred,  510. 
Weedon,  Colonel,  181. 
Weights  aud  Measures  (standard  for  the 

Co.),  87. 
Weld,  Humphrey,  John,  Margaret,  247. 
Vv^elton,  T.  A.,  27. 

West  family,  ;j25 ;  John  (emigrant),  317, 
325,  328,  5'JO;    Thomas,   378;    Unity, 
325. 
Western  Theological  Seminary,  503. 
Westham,  47,  52,  b5,  109,  115,  140,  149. 
West  Indies,  222. 
Westminster  (E.),  176. 
Westmoreland  Co.,  174,  175,  215,  293, 536, 

544. 
Westover,  192,  238 ;  Parish,  435. 
West  Point  Academy,  33(j,  369,  472,  475, 

476,  488,  41)1),  501,  591. 
West  River  Meeting,  516. 
West  Virginia,  248,  289, 292,  .304, 317,  318, 
346,  351,  429,  433,  474,  535,  536,  547, 
548. 
"  Westwood,"  294,  298  ;  School,  532. 
Wharton,  John  A.,  245. 
W  heatou,  Salmon,  Sarah,  418.- 
Wheeler,  Emma  M.,  606. 
Whelan  famUy,  346. 
Whitby,  173 ;  Abbey.  16. 
White,  Andrew  {emigrant),  217;  Ann  R., 
448  ;  Emily,  James,  466  ;  James  J.,  and 
family,  600 ;  John  F.,  217  ;  Joseph,  44b  ; 
Margaret  F.,  502 ;  Mary  R.,  277  ;  Thomas 
W^,  477. 
Whitehead    (emigrant),  386 ;  Edgar,   and 

family,  886. 
White  Sulphur  Springs,  341,  370,  423. 
Whitfield,  Mr.,  5l0. 

Whiting,  Augustus,  417  ;  Catherine,  246, 
247,    285;  Elizabeth,    247,   285;  Sara, 
417. 
Whitlock.  George,  Sarah,  316  ;  Miss,  557. 
Whittier,  J.  G.,  422. 
Whittle,  Bishop,  James  M.,  568. 
Wieliffe.  Robert,  502. 
Wiggins  family,  371 . 
Wilborne,  Elizabeth  R.,  4.39. 
Wilcox,  Anna  Maria,  577,  581  ;  Daniel  P., 
581;  Edmund,  61,  368;  George,  581; 
John,  368  ;  Susan,  3(58. 
Wilderness  track  to  Kentucky,  232. 
Wilkes,  Elizabeth,  280. 
Wilkins,  W.  W.,  328. 
Wilkinson,    Adjutant,  182;    family,  467, 

468. 
Willard  family,  486. 

William  and  Mary  College,  10,  50,  75,  79, 
105,  122,  139,  146,  1.58,  177,  190,  192, 
198,  207,  212,  228.  229,  234,  250,  251, 
257,  258,  263,  267,  302,  328,  348,  372, 
377,  379,  397,  401,  407,  425,  430,  434, 
435,  438,  439,  462,  489,  520,  525,  540, 
661,572,603. 


Williams,  Belle,  471;  Charles,  284; 
Elizabeth,  355;  Ellen  G.,  471  ;  James 
(emigrant),  355  ;  John,  138 ;  Marshall, 
284  ;  Mary,  458  ;  485  ;  Morgan,  231  ; 
Rhoda,  485 ;  Richard,  231  ;  Sarah  E., 
571 ;  Virginius  R.,  471  ;  W.  W.,  398. 
Williamsburg,  33,  85,  88,  93-95,  100,  101, 
103,  105,  106,  135,  138,  142,  164,  177- 
181,  195,  196,  229,  246,  263,  377,  426, 
430,  496,  507,  534,  540,  564 ;  Gazette, 
82,  181. 
Williamson  family,  400,  401 ;  Elizabeth 

B.,  595  ;  Mary  j.,  519. 
Willis  River,  157,  158,  236,  272. 
Wills,  Martha,  306. 
Willson  (see  Wilson),  William,  364. 
Wilmer     (emigrant),    430;    family,   427, 

430-432. 
Wilson,  Benjamin,  165 ;  Bettie  A.,  Dan- 
iel, 364;  James,  94,  249 ;  James  D., 
and  family,  556  ;  John,  445  ;  Laura  B., 
486  ;  Martha  C,  Nathaniel,  472  ;  Polly 
Cary,  378. 
WUtshire  (E.),  2-6,  10, 11,  18,  24,  57,  63, 

74,  168,  282. 
Winchester,  209,  318-320,  349;  (battle), 

393. 
Wing,  E.  R.,  Louise  R.  S.,  508. 
Wingfield.Ajmie,  270;  Charles,  Maria  L., 

284. 
Winn,  Henry,  Kate,  Lucy,  353. 
Winston,  Alice,  241,  242  ;  243  ;  Anthony, 
242;    Charles,   539;   Edmund,    61,   62, 
241-243,  561 ;  Elizabeth  A.,  539  ;  fam- 
ily, 242,  294  ;  Geddes,  61,  129;  Henry 
C,  539;  Isaac  (emigrant),  59,  188.  242, 
325,  534;  Mary,  534  ;  Sarah.  188,  325; 
241-243  ;  Thomas,  242 ;  WiUiam,  242, 
243. 
Winter,  Elizabeth  H.,  458. 
Winthrop,    Elizabeth,    John    (emigrant), 

421. 
"  Winton,"  133,  139, 173,  227,  381. 
Wirt,  WUliam,  114,   156,  252,  253,  257, 
261,  262,  265,  341,  462,  594;  Mrs.,  218, 
401,  564 ;  252,  262. 
Wisconsin,  398,  584. 
Wise,  Edwin,  and  family,  287  ;  Henry  A., 

266, 347,  360,  441  ;  O".  J.,  356. 
Withers,  Edmund,  396,  429,  540  ;  Louisa, 
540;  Robert  E.,  378,  565;  Robert  W., 
378,  538 ;  Susan  C,  378 ;  William  A., 
and  family,  5.S8,  539. 
Witherspoon,  John,  192;  490. 
Wolfe,  Joel,  and  family,  441. 
Wood,  Catherine,  .357,  363  ;  Colonel,  412  ; 
Henry,  and  family,  355-357  ;  Henry,  37, 
38,  41,  131,  294;  Lucy,  293,  294  ;  Mar- 
tha, 383  ;  Rosa  B.,  357,  362 ;  Valentine, 
49,  131,  294,  383. 
Woodbridge  family,  480. 
"  Woodburn,"  324,  327. 
Woodford,  General,  183. 
Wooding  family,  476. 
Woodrow,  Rachel,  406. 


INDEX 


641 


Woods,  James,  99,  142,  148;  292;  Mi- 
chael {emigrant),  and  family,  599  ;  Rich- 
ard, 183,  Thomas,  2{)'2. 

Woods'  Gap,  59,  07,  599. 

Woodson,  Aggy,  350 ;  Agnes,  281 ;  Caro- 
line M.,  499 ;  Charles,  161,  164,  165 ; 
Elizabeth,  269,  270,  468;  350;  383; 
(W.),  400 ;  John  {emigrant),  272,  350, 
375,  583;  583;  37,  38,  239,  583;  38, 
165 ;  Josiah,  582 ;  583 ;  Mary,  317  ;  582 ; 
Miller,  165;  Richard,  272,  350;  271, 
272,  281 ;  Robert,  272,  317,  350,  583 ; 
Tarleton,  499. 

Woolfork,  Charles  E.,  466. 

Wonnley, ,  446. 

Worsham, ,  327. 

Worsop,  Elizabeth,  Thomas,  599. 

Worthington,  John,  Sarah,  503. 

Wotton,  iSanmel,  18. 

Wright,  Boykin,  and  family,  573  ;  Eliza- 
beth, 540;  Nannie,  460;  Mr.,  609; 
Sarah,  469 ;  William,  540. 

Wriothesley,  Henry,  457  ;  Penelope,  456. 

Wyatt,  Francis,  260,  328;  George  M., 
Harriet    E.,   467 ;    Hawte    {emigrant), 


260;  John,  144,  259,  260;  Susanna, 
258-260;  Thomas,  260;  260;  61,  259, 
260;  444. 

Wydown.  Isabella  B.,  Samuel,  442. 

Wynne,  T.  H.,  229. 

Wythe,  George,  205,  278. 

Wythe  Co.,  359,  569. 

Yale  University,  404,  500,  521,  523. 
Yancey,  Charles,  301,  464 ;  family,  301 ; 

Clara,  .531. 
Yeamans,  Anne.  456,  457 ;  John,  457. 
Yeatraan,  Elizabeth,  19,  45. 
"  Yellow  Gravel."  140. 
York  Co.   (E.),   16,  ,378,  403,  541,  561; 

(Va.),  348,  402,  541 ;   River,  67,  244, 
^386. 
York-Hampton  Parish,  435. 
Yorktown,   109,  139,  153,  196,  198,  212, 

220,  224,  228,  315,  337,  377. 
Young,  Henrv,  184  ;  John  C,  and  family, 

490,  491 ;  Michael  Cadet,  47. 
Yulee,  Mr.,  575. 

Zogbaum,  Carl,  Fanny  L.,  386. 


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